Holt McCallany

In a career spanning over 30 years, Holt McCallany has worked with some of the world's best directors including David Fincher, Guillermo Del Toro, David O'Russell, Guy Ritchie, William Friedkin, Lawrence Kasdan, Walter Hill, Clint Eastwood, David Twhoy, Brian De Palma, and Michael Mann among others. Holt starred in the Netflix series Mindhunter where he plays Bill Tench, an FBI agent researching serial killers in the late 1970s. He also has roles in Nightmare Alley by Academy Award winning director Guillermo del Toro and Wrath of Man by Guy Ritchie. Holt was just added as a series regular to the cast of Foundation Season 2. Holt has appeared in memorable roles in movies like Fight Club, Three Kings, Alien III, and Men of Honor to name but a few. In 2011, Holt was the star of the raw and gritty FX series Light's Out where he played a boxer with pugilistic dementia. Born into a theatrical family, Holt's father, Michael, was a Tony winning Broadway producer and his mother was the legendary cabaret singer Julie Wilson. At 14, Holt ran away from home and took a Greyhound bus to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actor, but he ended up unloading trucks. His parents sent him to a boarding school in Ireland. At 18, Holt traveled to France where he studied French at the Sorbonne, art at The Paris American Academy and, later, theater at L'École Marcel Marceau and L'École Jacques Lecoq. He went on to study Shakespeare at Oxford and later worked extensively in theater in the United States and abroad. He is unmarried and lives in New York City.