Tomas Arana
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File:Tomas Arana.jpg Arana in the film Gladiator. | |
Born | Thomas Clifford Arana April 3, 1955 Auburn, California, U.S. |
Other names | Thomas Arana |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1976–present |
Children | 3 children[1] |
Website | www |
Tomas Arana (born Thomas Clifford Arana; April 3, 1955) is an Italian-American actor. He has appeared in films such as The Hunt for Red October, The Bodyguard, L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and The Dark Knight Rises.
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.[2] 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 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. In 2014, Arana appeared as a Kree ambassador in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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 Stillwell | |
1996 | First Kid | Harold | |
1997 | L.A. Confidential | Det. Sgt. 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 Adm. 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 | 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 Ambasador | ||
2016 | Ustica: The Missing Paper | Fragalà | |
Incarnate | Felix | ||
2017 | American Satan | Reporter |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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 | Prof. 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 | ||
2003-04 | 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 | |
2008-09 | 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 |
References
- ^ Arana, Tomas. "Biography". tomasarana.com. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ filmreference.com Accessed May 25, 2010
External links
- Tomas Arana at IMDb