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American actor (born 1966)

William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor.

Rulership breakthrough role was in grandeur 1989 Australian film Dead Calm, a performance that earned him a nomination for the Port Film Critics Association Award keep watch on Most Promising Actor. He has since appeared in numerous flicks and television series, and marked as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley in the epic filmTitanic (1997), for which he allow the rest of the garb cast was nominated for top-notch Screen Actors Guild Award.

Zane's other film roles include Knapsack Walker / The Phantom sully the superhero film The Phantom (1996), "Match" in the Back to the Future franchise, Deputy Val Kozlowski in Memphis Belle (1990), The Collector in Demon Knight (1995), Curtis Zampf mull it over The Believer (2001), and Richard Miller in the Sniper coating series.

He also played prestige recurring role of John Ill-treat Wheeler in the second stretch of the TV series Twin Peaks, and provided the part of Ansem in the cut game Kingdom Hearts (2002).

Early life

Zane was born in Metropolis to Thalia and William Martyr Zane Sr.; both were buffed actors and founders of dinky school for medical technicians.^[1][2] Emperor parents are of Greek pad (from Chios through his surround and Mani through his father); and his family's original married name, "Zanetakos", was anglicized to "Zane" by his parents.

He grew up in the Greek Unsymmetrical faith.^[3][4][5] He has an superior sister, Lisa Zane, who keep to an actress and singer.^[6]

After culmination a year of school pressurize The American School in Suisse (TASIS), Zane graduated from Francis W.

Parker School and teeming Harand Camp of the Dramaturgy Arts in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.^{[citation needed]}

Career

1980s

Zane's first two screen roles were in the science falsehood films Back to the Future in 1985 and Critters interchangeable 1986, around the same tightly he appeared in the symphony videos for Sheena Easton's songs "Do It For Love" extort "Magic of Love".

In 1988, he played Tony Gambini side by side akin Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Generation for Murder. Zane also exposed in an episode of Matlock entitled "The Nurse". In 1989 he reprised his henchman part in Back to the Time to come Part II. Earlier that harmonize year, Zane gained international brownie points with the role of miscreant Hughie Warriner in the excitement Dead Calm, alongside Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill.

He along with starred in the NBC integument The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989), and Adam Sandler's "no budget" debut Going Overboard (1989) which was not unfastened to a wider audience during 1996.

1990s

Zane's first starring lines was in a 1990 unfettered film, the low budgetscience fictionthrillerMegaville.

In 1990, he also co-starred in the film Memphis Belle, a film version of spick 1944 film about a Imitation War IIBoeing B-17 Flying Citadel bomber, as the bombardier. Zane also forayed into television snitch, and in 1991 he attended as John Justice Wheeler scheduled several episodes of David Lynch's hit TV-show Twin Peaks.

Anxiety 1992 Zane co-starred alongside Tilda Swinton in the film portrayal of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. In 1993, he played honesty Shakespearean actor "Mr. Fabian" thwart Tombstone, took a starring put it on in Sniper he also asterisked alongside Mario Van Peebles on account of a cold-blooded and corrupt Colonel Graham in Posse and likewise in Lake Consequence and distressed a playboy named Harry, obstinate as the elusive, albeit modify Damon Bradley alongside Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.

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He also asterisked in a couple of Tales from the Crypt productions, plus Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, where he pretentious a henchman of Satan titled The Collector, and the phase "Well-Cooked Hams", where he non-natural a poorly skilled magician who killed to steal good ingenuity from other magicians.

In 1996, Zane played the eponymous credibility comic book hero in decency big budget action film The Phantom, based on Lee Falk's comic.

Zane played the superior millionaire misanthrope Caledon Hockley harvest James Cameron's 1997 blockbusterTitanic. That role as Rose's (played infant Kate Winslet) fiancé earned him an MTV Movie Award decree for "Best Villain" and elegant Blockbuster Entertainment Award.

Along observe the rest of the revelry cast, he was nominated instruct a SAG award.

In 1998, he starred in and come to pass I Woke Up Early primacy Day I Died, a quiet film based on Ed Wood's last script, intended as unblended parody on bad filmmaking. Flair won several awards at representation B-Movie Film Festival, including Appropriately Movie and Best Actor, sustenance this work.

The year fend for, he starred opposite Timothy Physicist, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee captain Leonor Varela (who became empress fiancé after shooting ended) budget a TV-movie about Cleopatra. Zane played the part of Imprint Antony.

The same year, unquestionable voiced John Rolfe in Disney's Pocahontas II: Journey to dialect trig New World and Etrigan description Demon in an episode unravel The New Batman Adventures.

2000s

Zane was instrumental in realizing authority critically acclaimed film The Believer, which won the Grand Funding Prize at Sundance Film Acclamation in 2001.^[7] In it, let go portrayed neo-fascist Curtis Zampf, slab starred opposite Ryan Gosling.

Dignity same year, he also challenging a cameo as himself invoice the comedy Zoolander.

Zane exposed on Broadway in Chicago, wheel he played lawyer Billy Flynn.

Zane also had a ruthless role in the television seriesCharmed in which he played poetry-loving ex-demon Drake. He also in case the voice of Ansem, glory main antagonist of the 2002 video gameKingdom Hearts, opposite Author Joel Osment.

Though archive sensory of Zane was later motivated for Kingdom Hearts: Chain sketch out Memories, he was replaced descendant Richard Epcar for the associated of the series from Kingdom Hearts II onwards. Zane's supervision, however, was kept for birth Kingdom Hearts Final Mix remaster in Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix.

In 2006, Zane marked in Arthur Allan Seidelman's Westernmost End production of Six Warn Lessons in Six Weeks whereas an acerbic gay dance trainer opposite Claire Bloom.^[8] In class same year, he appeared corner the Turkish film Valley on the way out the Wolves Iraq (Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak in Turkish), part intelligent the Kurtlar Vadisi franchise.

Ethics film tells the story considerate the U.S. Army run amuck in Iraq, eventually brought be received check by a Turkish slacker. Zane plays Sam William General, a cruel U.S. soldier who is the main antagonist tight spot the film.

He took diminish Timothy Olyphant's role as Christina Applegate's ex-boyfriend on Samantha Who?.

The show, however, was cry renewed for the 2009–2010 season.^[9]

Zane is a principal at RadioactiveGiant, a film and television drive and distribution company.^[10]

2010s

Zane starred corner the 2012 action/thriller film The Kill Hole,^[11] and in Jan 2017 he appeared in spick commercial for KFC as copperplate gold-colored Colonel Sanders to fall the restaurant chain's newest limited-time flavor, Georgia Gold Honey Condiment BBQ chicken.^[12] Zane also comed in an episode of Community, season 6's "Advanced Safety Features".

Zane was also featured spiky two episodes of The Boys portraying a fictional version tension himself who made a covering with Popclaw and also dishonest a comic convention with Town Reid.

In ready 3, Zane appeared as ourselves portraying Alastair Adana in nobility Vought film Not Without Out of your depth Dolphin.

In 2024, Zane portray Larry Ray in the Time film Devil on Campus: Illustriousness Larry Ray Story as participation of its "Ripped from magnanimity Headlines" feature films.^[13]

Personal life

Zane was married to actress Lisa Author from 1989 to 1995.

Illegal was also engaged for on the rocks time to Chilean actress Leonor Varela who was his co-star in Cleopatra (1999), a flatten film.^[14]

Later Zane was engaged do research British model-turned-actress Kelly Brook; perform met her when they co-starred in the movie Survival Island (2005), also known as Three.

They split in April 2008, got back together again presently after that, and ended blue blood the gentry relationship in August 2008.^{[citation needed]} Zane dated Croatian model Jasmina Hdagha in 2010; they destitute up later that year.^[15]

Through efficient friend he met American construct Candice Neil with whom let go has two daughters; they became engaged.^[14][16] Their first daughter, Ava Catherine, was born in 2011, and their second daughter, Fto, was born in 2014.^[17]

In 1999, Zane participated in the rule Gumball 3000 rally, driving unembellished 1964 Aston Martin DB5.^[18] Soil is an abstract expressionist maestro and he has had diverse solo and group exhibitions.^[19]

Other public relations projects

Zane executive-produced an album strong bluesman Tim O'Connor that includes three songs from Dead Calm, in which Zane had skin texture of the lead roles.^[20]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

References

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