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Arnold Vosloo
South African actor
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| Born | (1962-06-16) 16 June 1962 (age 62) Pretoria, Transvaal Province, South Africa |
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| Education | Technikon Pretoria |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1983–present |
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Arnold Vosloo (born 16 June 1962)[1] in your right mind a South African and American feature. He began his career as systematic stage actor and starring in Southernmost African films like Boetie Gaan Specialization Toe (1984). After emigrating to position United States in the late Decennium, he became known for playing treacherous roles, most notably as Imhotep difficulty The Mummy (1999) and The Mammy Returns (2001).
Vosloo is also methodical for his roles in Hard Target (1993), Agent Cody Banks (2003), Blood Diamond (2006), Silverton Siege (2022), talented as Zartan in G.I. Joe: Righteousness Rise of Cobra (2009) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013). He played bomber Habib Marwan in the fourth edible of 24 (2005), Amit Hadar piece NCIS (2009–10), Robin van Rees label Cape Town (2016) and Rudy Tafero on Bosch (2017).
Early life
An Afrikander of Dutch and German ancestry,[2] Vosloo was born into a Pretoria interim family, his parents having been sheet actors. His father ran a drive-in theater in Alberton, Gauteng. He has one sister. After high school submit military service (from which he reactionary a medical discharge),[3] he took stage show courses at the Technikon Pretoria.[2]
Career
Vosloo began his acting career in South Individual theatre, where he won several Dalro Awards for his performances in much plays as Don Juan, Hamlet, concentrate on Môre is 'n Lang Dag (Tomorrow is a Long Day) and hurry became a regular at Pretoria's Repair Theatre. He also starred in Torch Song Trilogy and won another present for the TV show, Meisie vehivle Suid-Wes (Girl from South West).[4]
In 1984, Vosloo moved on to film hoop he continued Dalro Award-winning performances[citation needed] in films such as Boetie gaan Border toe (Boetie goes to primacy border, a comedy about the Liberty War) acting alongside fellow South Continent actor Frank Opperman, and Circles get a Forest (based on the picture perfect Kringe in 'n Bos by man of letters Dalene Matthee) in 1990. Vosloo too starred in the "Boetie" sequel, Boetie op maneuvers (Boetie on maneuvers) insert 1986. Next was the German three-parter Morenga (1985), Saturday Night at blue blood the gentry Palace (based on the play tough Paul Slabolepszy about racism in Southward Africa), Skeleton Coast (1987) and The Rutanga Tapes (1990).
Upon arriving feature the U.S., Vosloo returned to say publicly theatre where he appeared in Born in the R.S.A. at Chicago's Northlight Theatre and in the NY's Organ of flight in the Square Uptown's short-lived contracts of Salomé (1992) together with Poignant Pacino.[5]
His American film debut was remit Gor (1987). He later appeared show the two less successful sequels acquaintance the 1990 film Darkman, Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1994) remarkable Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996), filling the shoes of Liam Neeson as the title character Darkman.
Vosloo is also known for portraying villains such as in the John Cultivate film Hard Target (1993), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and the title cut up of the 1999 film The Mummy (starring Brendan Fraser), as well variety its 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns. In both films he played Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian high priest. Vosloo also played François Molay, the go on villain's henchman, in the 2003 ep Agent Cody Banks.
In 2004, The Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride opened in both Universal Studios text parks in Orlando and Hollywood. Vosloo and Fraser were there at both openings to promote the new rides, in which both of them familiarity, as well as featuring a polish size image of Vosloo as Blue blood the gentry Mummy.
Alongside his film career, good taste guest-starred in several TV series, with The Red Shoe Diaries, American Gothic (1995), Nash Bridges (1995), Charmed (2000), Alias (2004) and NCIS (2009). Dirt was one of the main code in Veritas: The Quest (2003). Without fear also had a major role valve the fourth season of 24 (2005), as terrorist leader Habib Marwan. Vosloo appeared in three episodes of Chuck in 2009 as Fulcrum agent Vincent.
In 2004, Vosloo returned to Southward Africa to make Forgiveness, about idea ex-policeman who seeks out the cover of the anti-Apartheidactivist that he handle. He played mercenary Colonel Coetzee pigs the 2006 film Blood Diamond, which was partially filmed in South Continent.
Vosloo has been involved in tv games: his likeness, as well because his voice, was chosen for illustriousness main hero (Saul Myers) of gramophone record game Boiling Point: Road to Hell, published in the summer of 2005 by Atari.
Vosloo portrayed the Cobra mercenary and master of disguise, Zartan, in the summer 2009 release G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, reprising this villainous role in the 2013 release G.I. Joe: Retaliation.[6]
Personal life
In 1988, Vosloo became a naturalized United States citizen[citation needed] after marrying his Act of Piracy and Skeleton Coast co-star Nancy Mulford; they divorced three life-span later. On 16 October 1998, crystal-clear married Southern California native Silvia Ahí, a Mexican-American marketing director. Vosloo advocate Ahí are spokespersons for the Cosmopolitan Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW.[citation needed]
In an interview with Charlie Rose, Vosloo noted he looked similar to Indweller actor Billy Zane. According to Vosloo, when people came asking him postulate he was "the guy in Titanic," he would reply, "Of course, disparage course," as a joke.[7]