Julian McMahon Biography
Julian McMahon born Julian Dana William McMahon, is an Australian actor and model. He is the son of a former Prime Minister of Australia, Sir William McMahon.He is popularly known for his role as Christian Troy in the American medical drama Nip/Tuck.
Julian McMahon father, Sir William McMahon, was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives and a high-ranking minister in the 24-year Liberal Government. In 1971 he became the 20th Prime Minister of Australia. His mother is Lady McMahon (Sonia Hopkins), a socialite and a fashion icon.
He has two siblings an older sister, Melinda, and a younger sister, Deborah.Sir Billy died March 31, 1988, age 80, four months before Julian’s 20th birthday, and Julian’s mother, Lady (Sonia) McMahon, died of cancer, three days after the 22nd anniversary of her husband’s passing, in Sydney, on April 2, 2010, age 77, with Julian and his two sisters at her bedside.
Julian McMahon Age
He was born on 27th July 1968 in Sydney, Australia. He is 50 years old as of 2018.
Julian McMahon Height
He is 1.88 meters tall.
Julian McMahon Wife | Spouse
In January 1994 Julian McMahon married Dannii Minogue , an Australian pop star and former Home and Away, and divorced in mid-1995, after less than two years of marriage.
In 1999 he married Brooke Burns, former Baywatch star but they divorced in 2001. In 2014 he married his girlfriend of 11 years, Kelly Paniagua, after a six-month engagement.
Julian McMahon Daughter
On 10th June 2000 Julian McMahon daughter Madison Elizabeth McMahon, with ex wife Brooke Burns, was born.
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Julian McMahon Model and Acting
Julian McMahon attended the private, boys-only, Sydney Grammar School and briefly studied law at the University of Sydney and economics at the University of Wollongong and he dropped out to persue a career in modelling. He worked primarily in commercials. In 1987, he began print modeling assignments in Los Angeles, New York, Milan, Rome and Paris.
His appearance in a TV commercial promoting jeans in his home country made him popular enough to be cast as the lead in The Power, the Passion (1989), an Australian “Dynasty”-like series. After 18 months on “The Power, The Passion,” Julian then joined the cast of Home and Away (1988), another successful Australian series, where he won a best actor award from a national magazine.
He was one of several Home and Away cast members to star in a stage musical about the soap, which toured the United Kingdom in 1991. Julian McMahon first role on American television was on the daytime soap opera Another World, playing Ian Rain from 1993 to 1995.
He also went on to play Dr. Michael Walsh in the movie Magenta in 1996, Sheriff Hayes in In Quiet Night (aka You Belong to Me Forever) in 1998, George Simian in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep in 2000, and David Cameron in the made-for-TV movie Another Day in 2001.
From 1996 to 2000, Julian McMahon starred in all four seasons of the NBC drama Profiler as Agent John Grant. He joined the cast of the WB’s supernatural hit show Charmed, playing the conflicted half-demon/half-human Cole Turner from 2000 to 2003; he returned for one episode in 2005.
From 1996 to 2000, he starred in all four seasons of the NBC drama Profiler as Agent John Grant. He joined the cast of the WB’s supernatural hit show Charmed, playing the conflicted half-demon/half-human Cole Turner from 2000 to 2003; he returned for one episode in 2005.
Julian McMahon next role was playboy plastic surgeon Christian Troy on the FX series Nip/Tuck. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2005 for his performance.
During this time, Julian McMahon also portrayed supervillain Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four, the 2005 film adaptation of the comic book series of the same name. The film was a box office success, and McMahon reprised his role as Doom in the sequel in 2007.
Julian McMahon Movies and TV Shows
- 1992: Wet and Wild Summer! as Mick Dooley
- 1997: Magenta as Michael Walsh
- 1998: In Quiet Night as Hayes
- 2000: Chasing Sleep as George
- 2004: Meet Market as Hutch
- 2005: Fantastic Four as Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom
- 2007: Premonition as Jim Hanson
- 2007: Prisoner as Derek Plato
- 2007: Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer as Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom
- 2010: RED as Robert Stanton
- 2011: Faces in the Crowd as Sam Kerrest
- 2012: Bait as Doyle
- 2012: Fire with Fire as Robert
- 2013: Paranoia as Miles Meechum
- 2014: You’re Not You as Liam
- 2018: Swinging Safari as Rick Jones
- 2018: Monster Party as Patrick Dawson
- 1989: The Power, the Passion as Kane Edmons
- 1990-1991: Home and Away as Ben Lucini
- 1992: G.P. as Constable Colin Carmody
- 1993: Another World as Ian Rain NBC
- 1996-2000: Profiler as Detective John Grant
- 1998: Will & Grace as Guy
- 2000 – 2005: Charmed as Cole Turner
- 2001: Another Day as David
- 2003-2010: Nip/Tuck as Dr. Christian Troy
- 2008: Robot Chicken as Dr. Doom/Newscaster
- 2012: Rogue as Kevin Lear
- 2013: Full Circle as Stanley Murphy
- 2015: Childhood’s End as Rupert Boyce
- 2016: Hunters as McCarthy
- 2016: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency as Zackariah Webb
- 2017 – 2018: Runaways as Jonah
Julian McMahon Net worth
Julian McMahon is an Australian actor who has an estimated net worth of $16 million.
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Julian McMahon Interview
Julian McMahon was interviewed about his movie, premonition, why its theme is universal. He also reveals a little bit about his continued involvement with hit series Nip/Tuck and the upcoming summer blockbuster Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Interviewer: Premonition is a different kind of film to the one many people might expect. It’s much more intimate and psychological. What appealed to you about it in the first place?
Julian McMahon: Exactly what you just said. Sandra Bullock was already attached to it when I got the script. But to me it was really about the intimacy. When they first sent me the script they said it was a psychological drama or thriller and I thought: “Here we go…”
But I was just very touched when I read it. It’s a very emotional movie as opposed to what I was expecting. I was devastated by the script. I guess the best way to describe it is that I felt a lot. It was almost confusing but when you get that kind of connection to something I think it means something, so then when you get the chance to fulfil it in some way then that’s always good.
Interviewer: As a father yourself, did you find particular scenes to be extra emotional?
Julian McMahon: Are you a dad? Or married? What doesn’t connect? We’ve all been in relationships but the daddy part still upsets me. Just the possibility of not being around for your child…
Interviewer: Sandra Bullock pays you a lovely compliment in the film’s production notes, saying that you were missed whenever you weren’t around and that you were the “the joy, the energy and the spark”. How did you enjoy working with her on the Louisiana set?
Julian McMahon: I’m a big fan of Sandra’s. I’ve watched her movies for a long time, seen her on the cover of countless magazines and being an aspiring actor, who wouldn’t want to work with her? So to get the opportunity to work with her under the circumstances that we did was great. We went down [to Louisiana] three weeks early and we all sat down at the table and threw in whatever the hell we wanted with a view to what we thought, felt and wanted to achieve.
A lot of the time you go through this business and sometimes we pretend that we’re all just easy go lucky and we come in and perform. But the reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don’t know everything. Maybe I don’t know what the hell I’m doing! But most of the time you can’t even admit that, though. On this set, we allowed ourselves to do that every day. And so inside of that I think that you get to know somebody in an extraordinarily intimate way that you may not even get to know with your partner or wife. It was like I went to therapy almost.
Interviewer: I guess it’s a matter of putting all your trust in the people you’re working with.
Julian McMahon: You always do that but at the same time you don’t always feel like you have a safety net. I never felt like I didn’t have that here. It wasn’t always that we agreed. I was always coming up with stuff but I never felt I couldn’t get it out. I was always supported in some kind of way. It wasn’t always used but they had a look at it and I never felt like an idiot.
Interviewer: What about the concept behind the film, did you do any research into the subject of premonitions?
Julian McMahon: I never even thought about it. I love the name, Premonition, but I never even conceptualised it and once I’d read the script I didn’t even think that was what it was about anymore. To me it was a love story and the premonition part was left on the front page of the script and I never re-evaluated it again until I started really sort of promoting the movie.
So, what’s a premonition? It’s when you feel something before it actually happens. Do I believe in it? Yes. Have I had one? Nothing worth noting. I believe in all of that kind of stuff.
Interviewer: No particularly bad dreams, like the character played by Sandra Bullock?
Julian McMahon: None that have come to any kind of fruition in any kind of way. If I’d had one, I’m sure I’d be able to remember and tell you about it now [laughs].
Interviewer: What was filming in Louisiana like so soon after Hurricane Katrina?
Julian McMahon: I loved it. It was a very touching time and a beautiful time to be there – I almost hate saying that. But Hurricane Katrina had just come through and the devastation it left behind was extraordinary, so here were these people rebuilding their lives.
Any time I felt like I was in a bad mood all I had to do was look around the set and see this stoic ability to get on and move on with your life – not in a harsh way; they were happy people who had lost everything. Some had lost friends and family, some had lost their homes, their identification, every picture they’d ever had, everything… that could make you sit down and weep for a year but this was months after.
It was just one of those moments where you just kind of look at yourself. It all became part and parcel of the movie in a way because it was a real evaluation of yourself. That “just take a second to smell the roses” saying was really kind of applicable. A lot of times you just go through life and forget to stop and say: “This is cool.” Or: “I’m lucky, I love the people in my life and I love what I’m doing.” This movie gave me the opportunity to do that in a big way.
Interviewer: And I guess it was a welcoming environment because they wanted you there?
Julian McMahon: They wanted us there. Louisiana people are a great breed of people and they have great food!
Interviewer: You must be really happy with the way your career is heading, what with Nip/Tuck and making the transition to movies. Do you feel like it’s going to plan?
Julian McMahon: If it is a plan it’s one that’s pretty big and broad. I believe that things kind of happen for a reason. But at the same time my real mission is just to continue working in this business with the scripts I enjoy, characters that challenge me and people that I admire.
That can be someone like Sandy or a great director such as Mennan Yapo. Or even just some guy who’s just made a short out of college. It’s such a great business when you’re in it and the ability to do things that even surprise you is continually evident. For me, it’s just about challenging myself – that’s the biggest thing – and taking care of my child and paying my bills.
Interviewer: Are you still a part of Nip/Tuck‘s future?
Julian McMahon: Oh yeah, I have two more years left on my contract and I’ll at least fulfil those. We’ll see what happens after that.
Interviewer: Can you tell us a little bit about your involvement in the Fantastic Four sequel?
Julian McMahon: Dr Doom comes back and he’s pissed off at the fact that he’s been melted and frozen and sent away in a casket on a long cruise. So when he comes back he’s bitter and twisted. To me it’s kind of like the Dr Doom that I know from the cartoons and comic books.
He’s always been a bit of a different character once we put him on film to what I felt he was. But his whole thing was: “Take over the universe, own everything, destroy the Fantastic Four and manipulate anybody’s powers if he can.” So that’s what he does.
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Charmed alum Julian McMahon thinks there’s an “enormous audience” for the reboot.
Updated on: 2 August 2018
The CW’s Charmed reboot is scheduled to debut this fall with an all-new trio of actresses—Madeline Mantock, Melonie Diaz, and Sarah Jeffery—harnessing the Power Of Three. Jane The Virgin’s Jennie Snyder Urman is behind this reimagining of Constance M. Burge’s popular WB series, which has already received some thoughtful criticism from Holly Marie Combs and Shannen Doherty, and eventually, Rose McGowan’s blessing (Alyssa Milano just seems nostalgic).
As Phoebe’s devilish ex-husband, Julian McMahon had a recurring role on the original series, as well as great chemistry with its leads. Now he’s trying to take over the world on Marvel’s Runaways, the set of which The A.V. Club visited this week as part of the Television Critics Association summer press tour. When we asked for his thoughts on the reboot, which has a more inclusive cast, McMahon admitted he hadn’t heard about it. “I didn’t really know what was happening, just because I’ve had my head in the sand a little bit,” McMahon said, motioning to the top-secret lair and [REDACTED] around us.
McMahon hasn’t been approached about popping up in the reboot in some capacity, but he does wish Urman and the new cast luck:
It sounds like it’ll be great. The original incarnation was pretty fantastic, and I was really, really proud to be a part of it. And you know, I wouldn’t change that for the world. If they’re rebooting something like that—it had such an enormous audience to begin with, so I can see how, if you did it the right way, you could tap into that again. There’s an equally large audience tap into now. I love the girls, I loved my character. So if they can create something that people enjoy as much as they did then, then hats off to them.
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