Karl Urban

Karl Urban (born June 7, 1972), an actor from Wellington, New Zealand, is best known for playing ?omer, in the and films of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien.

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Urban attended St Mark's Church School in Wellington, New Zealand, where he showed an early love for public performance. He went on to Wellington College.

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Some of his earlier work included roles on New Zealand soap Shortland Street, which apparently interrupted his planned attendance of Victoria University of Wellington, and a guest role on the second season of police drama Shark in the Park.

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Urban was seen on the internationally syndicated American television shows ' and ' in which he played both Cupid and Julius Caesar from 1996 to 2001. These shows were filmed in New Zealand. He recently co-starred in The Chronicles of Riddick with Vin Diesel and Judi Dench and The Bourne Supremacy with Matt Damon.

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Karl Urban is playing the lead character in Universal Pictures' Doom which commenced production in 2004 with a release date of October 21, 2005.

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June 7: June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining....

1972: 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday....

Actor: An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in an artistic production. The term commonly refers to someone working in movies, television, live theatre, or radio, and can occasionally denote a street entertainer. Besides playing dramatic roles, actors may also sing or dance or work only on radio ...

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