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11 Facts About Holt McCallany

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Holt McCallany was born on Holt Quinn McAloney; September 3,1963 and is an American actor.

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Holt McCallany is known for portraying FBI Special Agent Bill Tench on the series Mindhunter and has had leading and supporting roles in various television series and films, including Lights Out, Fight Club, Three Kings, Shot Caller, Wrath of Man, Nightmare Alley, and The Iron Claw.

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Holt McCallany attended school first in New Jersey and was later sent to live with his maternal grandparents in Omaha, Nebraska, where he had a troubled childhood and was expelled from Creighton Preparatory School.

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Holt McCallany soon left Ireland and eventually was allowed to return to Creighton Preparatory School, and graduated in 1981.

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Holt McCallany spent a summer studying Shakespeare at Oxford University and went with a production of Twelfth Night to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before moving to New York City to begin his professional acting career.

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Holt McCallany landed a series of supporting parts in such films as Casualties of War, Alien 3, Creepshow 2, The Search for One-eye Jimmy and Jade, as well as the TV miniseries Rough Riders.

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Holt McCallany continued working in films and television throughout the nineties and 2000s with roles in films such as Fight Club, Three Kings, Men of Honor and Below, among others.

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Holt McCallany was the star of the 2011 FX television series, Lights Out, playing an aging boxer forced out of retirement and into a comeback bid to regain the heavyweight title, despite having pugilistic dementia.

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Holt McCallany followed this with roles in films like Sully, Shot Caller and Blackhat, among many others.

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From 2017 to 2019, Holt McCallany co-starred in the Netflix series Mindhunter for director David Fincher.

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Holt McCallany played Bill Tench, an FBI agent researching serial killers in the late 1970s.