Tomas Arana

Tomas Arana
Born	Tomas Clifford Arana (1955-04-03) April 3, 1955 Auburn, California, U.S.
Education	American Conservatory Theater City College of San Francisco
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present
Spouse	Price Arana
Children	3

Tomas Clifford Arana (born April 3, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Bodyguard (1992), L.A. Confidential (1997), Gladiator (2000), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Limitless (2011) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).

Career

Arana has played leading and supporting roles in over 30 European productions including films by directors Lina Wertmüller, Liliana Cavani, Carlo Verdone and Michele Soavi, and with the Japanese director Koreyoshi Kurahara in the Toho production See You. He appeared as Quintus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, Michael Bruening in Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and in the second film of the Bourne series, The Bourne Supremacy. In theatre, Arana was the producer and a leading actor in the theatre company Falso Movimento, based in Naples, Italy. Under Arana and artistic director Mario Martone (now an Italian film director), Falso Movimento won many awards including Best Play of the Year and Best Set Design, as well as the Mondello Prize.

Arana also played the GRU sleeper agent Loginov in the 1990 film adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October, the would-be killer in 1992's The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, a Belarusian resistance leader in Edward Zwick's 2008 film Defiance, and The Man In The Tan Coat in 2011's Limitless alongside Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. He appeared in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, as Bruce Wayne's lawyer. In 2013 Arana appeared in the miniseries Crimes of the German television broadcaster ZDF. In 2014, Arana appeared as a Kree ambassador in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Personal life

Arana divides his time between Italy and Hollywood and has three sons. He is fluent in Italian as well as English, and speaks conversational French and Spanish. He is a kendo practitioner.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Blood Feud	Fascist	Uncredited role
1979	Atrocious Tales of Love and Death	Walter Navarro
1981	The Skin	American G.I.
1986	Incidente di percorso	Rebelsky
1987	Io e mia sorella	Gábor
1988	Intimacy	Porter
	The Last Temptation of Christ	Lazarus
	Umi e	Juan Vasquez
	Domino	Gavros
1989	The Church	Evan
	Francesco	Learned Brother	Uncredited role
1990	The Hunt for Red October	Matrose Igor Loginov
1991	The Sect	Damon
	Shadows and Fog	Confessing Man	Uncredited role
1992	Body Puzzle	Michael
	The Bodyguard	Greg Portman
	Out of Control	The Warden
1993	Tombstone	Frank Stilwell
1996	First Kid	Harold
1997	L.A. Confidential	Detective Sergeant Michael Breuning
1998	Passage to Paradise	Harrison
	Heartwood	Jordan Barrett
1999	Branchie	Subotnik
	Wildflowers	Wade
2000	Gladiator	Quintus
2001	Chimera	Tomas Berti
	Pearl Harbor	Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher
2002	Derailed	Mason Cole
2003	The Accidental Detective	Matt Brandon
	This Girl's Life	Aronson
2004	La volpe a tre zampe	Il Generale
	Il servo ungherese	August Dailerman
	The Bourne Supremacy	CIA Director Martin Marshall
	Legami sporchi	Raymond Toom
2005	Private Property	Nigel
2006	Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders	Angelo Buono
2008	Defiance	Ben Zion Gulkowitz
2010	Mission London	Munroe
2011	The Roommate	Jeff Evans
	Limitless	Man In Coat
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Ward Neeley
2013	The President's Staff	President Harry Carrey
	Romeo & Juliet	Lord Montague
2014	The Possession of Michael King	Augustine
	Guardians of the Galaxy	Kree Ambassador
2016	Ustica: The Missing Paper	Fragalà
	Incarnate	Felix
2017	American Satan	Reporter
2019	Don't Stop Me Now	Eden Bauen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	The Taming of the Shrew	Clown	Television film
1985	Otello	Iago
	Perfidi incanti	F. Scott Fitzgerald
1987	Il cespuglio delle bacche velenose	Andrea
1988	The Prince of Terror	Vincent Omen
1989	Miami Vice	Walter Stevens	1 episode
1990	Blue Blood	Ugo Mancini
1996	Seduced by Madness	Leon	Miniseries; 2 episodes
	The Lazarus Man	Andrew Hawthorne	1 episode
1997	The Burning Zone	Professor Herbert Tobler
	The Hunger	Rick McCabe
1998	Walker, Texas Ranger	Jackson Mandell
	Players	Andrew Pickett
2001	ER	Rifkin
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Rudy Langer
	Thieves	Honigger
2002	Il Comissario	L'Americano	Miniseries; 2 episodes
	Without a Trace	Chuck	1 episode
2003	CSI: Miami	Mr. Davis
	Skin	Garret
2003-2004	Spooks	Herman Joyce	2 episodes
2004	Crossing Jordan	Father Casnelli	1 episode
	Frankenfish	Jeff	Television film
2005	24	Dave Conlon	2 episodes
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Joseph Diamond	1 episode
2006	In Justice	Detective Ben Dryer
	Justice League Unlimited	Tharok
2007	Pompeii	Massimo	Miniseries; 2 episodes
	Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses	Rene De Leon	Television film
	Bats: Human Harvest	Dr. Benton Walsh
2008	Rebecca, la prima moglie	Jack Favell
2008-2009	Tutti pazzi per amore	Riccardo Balstrieri	12 episodes
2009	Lie to Me	Judge Simon	1 episode
2010	Crimini	Zen
	Colpo di fulmine	Lorenzo Fieschi	Television film
2012	6 passi nel giallo	Marc Douglas	1 episode
2013	Project S.E.R.A.	Corvallis	Web series; 6 episodes
	Crime Stories	Unbekannter Mann	1 episode
2014	Intelligence	DNI Adam Weatherly	10 episodes
2016	Code Black	Admiral Stark	1 episode
2020	The New Pope	Tomas Altbruck
2021	Succession	Laurie	2 episodes

External links

• Tomas Arana at IMDb