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Nathan Fillion Profile |
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Birth Date: March 27, 1971
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Birth Place: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Birth Name: Nathan Fillion
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Height: 6'1"
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Biography |
Nathan Fillion is a Canadian actor. He was born in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. He is reportedly a distant relation of
Confederate Civil War general Jubal Early.
After working in several theatre, television and film
productions, including the improvised soap opera Die Nasty,
Fillion moved to New York City in 1994 where he acted in the
soap opera One Life to Live as Joey Buchanan, for which he
was nominated in 1996 for a Daytime Emmy Award in the
"Outstanding Younger Actor" category. In 1997, he left the
series to pursue other projects. After moving to Los
Angeles, he played a supporting role in the sitcom Two Guys,
a Girl, and a Pizza Place. He was cast as "the Minnesota
Ryan" in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.
Fillion starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the Joss
Whedon science fiction television series Firefly (2002), for
which he won the "Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award -
Male" award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy &
Horror Films, USA. Fillion reprised his role as Reynolds in
Whedon's movie Serenity (2005). He had a recurring role as
Caleb in the final season of Whedon's series Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.
He has lent his voice to the animated series King of the
Hill in 2001, the video game Jade Empire (as the voice of
Gao the Lesser), and the animated series Justice League
Unlimited (as Vigilante in the episodes "Hunter's Moon" and
"Patriot Act") in 2005 and 2006.
Having finished filming the James Gunn horror film Slither,
the romantic comedy film Waitress is now in post-production.
Fillion is currently filming White Noise 2: The Light. |
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Other Information |
He is a distant relative of the Civil War general Jubal
Early, and mentioned the name and the story at some point to
Joss Whedon. As a result, Joss used the name for a character
in the _"Firefly" (2002/I)_ episode, "Objects in Space".
Wanted to be a high school English teacher (a profession
that runs in his family). In college he majored in art, and
minored in drama while pursuing an acting career on the
side.
Originally auditioned for the role of "Angel" for Joss
Whedon's first television series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
(1997). However, Whedon did not remember him from that when
he contacted Nathan about the part of "Mal" on _"Firefly"
(2002/I)_ .
Had corrective surgery on his eyes when he was 12. |
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