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Holt McCallany (born Holt Quinn McAloney; September 3, ) is an American actor.

Holt McCallany (born Holt Quinn McAloney; September 3, ) is an American is recognizable for portraying FBI Special Representative Bill Tench on the series Mindhunter (–19) 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.

He is known for portraying FBI Exceptional Agent Bill Tench on the series Mindhunter (–19) 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.

Early life

McCallany was born September 3, , in New York Metropolis, to theatrical parents. His mother, Julie Wilson (–), was an American singer and actress, "widely regarded as the queen of cabaret."^[2] His father, Michael McAloney (–), was an Irish player and producer best known for his Tony Award-winning production of Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, an autobiographical play about a little member of the Irish Republican Army, which was the first Irish production to win uppermost honors on Broadway.

Because his father wanted a classical learning process for his two sons, McCallany and his younger brother were sent to live with another family in Dublin, while his parents stayed in New York City, working.

He comes from a family of performers, with his father being a celebrated cabaret singer, actor, and producer, and a Tony Award winner. He attended school in Dublin, Ireland, before his parents divorced and he returned to the United States. McCallany made his acting debut in the second grade, playing Dopey in a school production of "Snow Light and the Seven Dwarfs. At the age of 14, he was expelled from school, after which he ran away from home and went to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career.

In Ireland, he attended the National School in Howth.^[3] However, following his parents' divorce the children moved back to the United States. He 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.

At the age of 14, he ran away from home and took a Greyhound bus to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, but ended up with a job in a factory unloading trucks. His parents eventually tracked him down and sent him back to Ireland to a boarding school in County Kildare that his father had attended forty years earlier, Newbridge College.^[4]

He soon left Ireland and eventually was allowed to return to Creighton Preparatory University, and graduated in After elevated school, he went to France to continue his education, first to study French at the Sorbonne and art at the Paris American Academy, and later theater at L'École Marcel Marceau and L'École Jacques Lecoq.

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 Fresh York City to begin his professional acting career.^[5]

Career

His first employment in the professional theater was as an apprentice actor at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, in the same apprenticeship once served by Tom Hanks, among others.

Subsequently, he returned to New York City and was cast as an understudy in the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues.

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.

After playing the legendary boxing trainer Teddy Atlas in the HBO telefilm Tyson, he became a supporter of the Atlas Foundation Charity, a grassroots organization dedicated to helping children and families with medical and financial hardships.^{[citation needed]}

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

He played a detective with psychological problems in CSI: Miami and a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder on Criminal Minds.

Holt McCallany is an actor, writer, and producer by profession, and American by nationality. Born as the son of actress Julie Wilson and actor, and producer Michael McAloney, he too took to business. His full name is Holt Quinn McAloney. Both his parents have earned Tony Award nominations.

He appeared in the Warner Bros. film, The Losers, based on the graphic novel from DC Comics. McCallany also was the star of the FX television series, Lights Out, playing an aging boxer ("Patrick 'Lights' Leary") forced out of retirement and into a comeback command to regain the heavyweight title, despite having pugilistic dementia.^{[citation needed]}

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

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

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He played Bill Tench, an FBI agent researching serial killers in the delayed s.^[6] His first French-language movie, an adaptation of the Georges Feydeau comedy Le Dindon, was released in September

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