Nathan Fillion

Nathan Christopher Fillion ( born March 27, 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian actor. Among his most famous roles include the Malcolm Reynolds, he of the series Firefly - embodied escape into new worlds - The departure of Serenity and the movie Serenity. Currently he can be seen in the crime series Castle.

Life and career

Fillion is a native Canadian. Both parents are English teachers. His older brother, Jeff was director of a high school. Originally, it was also Fillion's plan to pursue a career education and to study English to become a teacher. He then decided, however, for art and drama, to be acting teacher with the target. His appointment itself to become an actor, he was only while studying, because it to finance his studies, began to participate in plays. Initially he worked in Canada in less acclaimed television, film and theater productions, Fillion moved in 1994 to New York, where he love, lies, passion took on a role in the endless soap opera. In 1996 he was awarded with 25 years of a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor. A year later he left the series to pursue other projects. He moved to Los Angeles and played from the second to the fourth season of the sitcom A trio to bite a starring role opposite Ryan Reynolds and Traylor Howard.

A larger audiences he reached for the first time in 1998 with a small role as Private James Frederick Ryan, in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. He also starred in films such as Blast from the Past or Wes Craven presents Dracula. His breakthrough finally helped him Joss Whedon, who gave him a starring role in the series Firefly. By his own testimony Fillion would immediately slip back into his favorite role of spaceship captain Malcolm Reynolds. In an interview, Entertainment Weekly, he said: " If I won $ 300 million in the California lottery, would be the first thing I would do me to secure the rights to Firefly. And then I would continue it and send over the internet. "

Whedon, he also owed ​​the central role as helpers of evil in the final Buffy Season. In 2003, he starred opposite Alicia Silverstone and Ryan O'Neal in six episodes of the series Kate Fox & love. His role of Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly took Fillion again in 2005 in the movie Serenity - Escape to new worlds. 2007 Fillion starred in the lead role of the miniseries Drive. From 2007 to 2008, Fillion a longer story arc in the series Desperate Housewives in the role of gynecologist Dr. Adam Mayfair.

Another collaboration between Fillion and Whedon it came out in 2008 the mini web Musiacalserie Dr. Horrible 's Sing - Along Blog, which was awarded the 2009 People's Choice Award. In the role of "Captain Hammer" he could also provide for the first time his singing talent. Since 2009 he plays the lead role of Richard Castle in the eponymous crime series Castle.

Personal

In the 90 years Fillion was engaged to the U.S. actress Vanessa Marcil, with whom he is good friends today. Since 2009, he was with the Canadian actress Kate Luyben. In 2013 he shows up with his new girlfriend Mikaela Hoover.

Fillion claims a descendant of General Jubal A. Early, a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War to be. As Joss Whedon learned of this, he named a character in his series Firefly after him.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

Series

Voice Actors

  • 2007, 2009: Robot Chicken
  • 2009: Wonder Woman (voice of Steve Trevor )
  • 2012: American Dad ( Episode 8x16, Voice of Liver)
  • 2012: Justice League: Doom (voice of Green Lantern)
  • 2013: Monsters University ( Monsters University, voice of Johnny )
  • 2013: Justice League: The Flash Point Paradox (voice of Green Lantern)

Awards

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