Tomas Arana

Tomas Arana
File:Tomas Arana.jpg Tomas Arana in the movie Gladiator.
Born	Thomas Clifford Arana (1955-04-03) April 3, 1955 Auburn, California, U.S.
Other names	Thomas Arana
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present
Spouse	? (3 children)
Website	www.tomasarana.com

Thomas Clifford "Tomas" Arana (born April 3, 1955) is an American actor.

Life and career

Arana was born in Auburn, California. He grew up in San Francisco and studied classical theatre at the American Conservatory Theater and at the City College of San Francisco. Afterwards he relocated to New York and acted in off-Broadway productions. He then hitchhiked throughout Europe and ended up living in Naples, Italy, where he worked in the famous Lucio Amelio Art Gallery. There he worked with such artists as Warhol, Beuys, Rauschenberg, Richter, Longobardi, Clemente, Gilbert & George, etc. Andy Warhol painted his portrait, which is now part of Arana's extensive art collection. He lives between Italy and Hollywood and has three sons.

Arana has played leading and supporting roles in over 30 European productions including films by directors such as Lina Wertmüller, Liliana Cavani, Carlo Verdone, Michele Soavi and with one of Japan's most successful directors: Koreyoshi Kurahara in the Toho production See You. He appeared as Quintus in Ridley Scott's epic motion picture Gladiator, Michael Bruening in Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and he also appeared in the second film of the Bourne series, The Bourne Supremacy. In theatre, Arana was the producer and a leading actor in the internationally acclaimed 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 superstars 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 performed as mysterious assassin in the miniseries Crimes of the German television broadcaster ZDF, a role without any subtext. In 2014, Arana appeared as a Kree ambassador in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Otello	Iago	TV movie
1987	Io e mia sorella	Gabor
1988	The Last Temptation of Christ	Lazarus
1988	Domino	Gavros
1989	The Church	Evan
1990	The Hunt for Red October	Loginov (Cook)
1991	The Sect	Damon
1991	Shadows and Fog	Confessing Man	Uncredited
1992	Body Puzzle	Michele
1992	The Bodyguard	Portman
1992	Over the Line	The Warden
1993	Tombstone	Frank Stillwell
1996	First Kid	Harold
1997	L.A. Confidential	Breuning
1998	Heartwood	Jordan Barrett
1999	Wildflowers	Wade
2000	Gladiator	Quintus
2001	Pearl Harbor	Vice-Adm. Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher
2002	Derailed	Mason Cole
2003	This Girl's Life	Aronson
2004	The Bourne Supremacy	Martin Marshall
2005	Island of the Damned	Nigel
2008	Defiance	Ben Zion Gulkowitz
2011	The Roommate	Jeff Evans
2011	Limitless	Man in Coat
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Wayne's Lawyer
2013	The President's Staff	President Harry Carrey
2013	Romeo & Juliet	Lord Montague
2014	Guardians of the Galaxy	Kree Ambasador

External links

• Official website
• Tomas Arana at IMDb