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Julian McMahon

 

Julian McMahon was born on July 27^th, 1968 in Sydney, Australia. He is 46 years old. He was a model before becoming an actor. He was married to Dannii Minogue, Brooke Burns, with whom he has a daughter named Madison Elizabeth, born on June 9^th, 2000. He also had a relationship with his partner in Charmed, Shannen Doherty, while ha was still married.

He is a big fan of the Australian beer and he is also an excellent cook. He is very athletic, he plays football, tennis, surfing and cycling. At the moment Julian McMahon has been married to Kelly Paniagua since June 2014.

He is passionate about the law. He studied it at the University of Sydney, but soon enough, Julian was spotted by a modeling agency which decided to hire him. At 17, after abandoning his law studies, he became a model and was noticed by a commercial for Levis jeans brand that allowed him to play in the Australian soap opera Summer Bay where famous actors such as Guy Pearce, Heath Ledger or Naomi Watts also made their debuts.

Discovering a new passion for acting, McMahon started a new carreer on the stage, performing both in Australia and the United Kingdom or the United States. If he appeared in a second time in teen movies such as Wet and Wild Summer or Magenta Thriller, it is on television that he was spotted and started to break into the business.

He then left to settle in Los Angeles. He joined the team in 1992 of the American soap Another World. With a brief participation in the comedy Will and Grace, the NBC network hired him for the role of inspector John Grant in the series Profiler and is was a success. In 2000, Aaron Spelling offered him the role of the demonic Cole Turner for three seasons in Charmed. It is this series that he was revealed to the public and the doors of the cinema were open for him.

In 2003, he reached the peak of his career by playing Christian Troy, a cynical and arrogant surgeon in Nip / Tuck, one of the most daring and best known of the decade TV series.

After this time he played the husband of Sandra Bullock in Prenomition, a fantastic movie that took place in a temporal space.

Julian Mcmahon then played the legendary Victor Von Doom aka Doctor Doom, who is a super villain in Marvel Fantastic Four (2005) and the Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer (2007). Victor Von Doom was an American researcher who proposed a trip into space to Richard Reed.

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In 2010, he accepted to play in RED for the role of the US vice president with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman and in 2011, he played in a thriller Unknown Faces by the French director Julien Magnat, with Milla Jovovich.

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