dame_vaako Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 I can't believe he didn't have a thread!! Karl Heinz Urban was born in Wellington, New Zealand on June 7th, 1972. He is the only child of a German immigrant who owns a leathergoods retail store in Wellington. His mother, who used to work at Film Facilities in Wellington, seems to have influenced his interest in acting. Every so often major NZ film releases were screened by Film Facilities for industry people and staff. Karl would go along and watch such films as Smash Palace and Carry Me Back, so from an early age he was aware of and exposed to NZ films. One of his mother's friends was the comedian Ginette McDonald, and as a youngster he used to go with his mother to live TV tapings of Ginette's comedy show, Lynn of Tawa. This led to Ginette McDonald casting him in his first ever role at the tender age of 9 in the TV series, Ettie Route Pioneer Woman. This was in 1981, and although he had only one line of dialogue, "They've got no proper clothes", it was the start of things to come. In 1990 he played a troubled drug addict in Shark in the Park III. In 1992 he appeared in both White Fang and Homeward Bound. 1993 saw him playing gay paramedic, Jamie Forrest, in New Zealand's top rated soap opera, Shortland Street. He left the show the following year and appeared as Wayne in Pathways. Karl played Cupid in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. The episode A Comedy of Eros saw this character appear on Xena: Warrior Princess. He also played several other roles in Xena. He first appeared in Altared States as the conniving Maell, who fell to a watery death after plotting to kill his brother Icus. His next Xena appearance was in Destiny as Julius Caesar. Caesar was his main role on the show, appearing as that character in The Deliverer, When in Rome, A Good Day and Ides of March. Karl appeared again in Xena in 1995`s Lifeblood, which was originally filmed as part of a pilot show called Amazon High. He made one final return to Xena in 1996, in the episode When Fates Collide. The role of Eomer Eadig in The Lord of the Rings, shot on location in New Zealand, got him noticed. Based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien, and directed by Peter Jackson, Karl appeared in the last two movies of the trilogy, The Two Towers and The Return Of the King, In 2002 he appeared in the horror movie Ghost Ship. It was a three month shoot at Warner Bros studios on the Gold Coast, Australia. Karl played Arctic Warrior salvage crewmember, Munder. From there he went on to a major role in the Pitch Black sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, where he played necromonger, Lord Vaako. After that he had a role in The Bourne Supremacy, playing a deadly Russian assassin named Kirill. In 2005, Karl got top billing in Doom. Shot in Prague, the movie is based on the popular Doom series of video games produced by id Software. Karl plays a marine, John "Reaper" Grimm, who becomes a reluctant hero when he and his fellow marines are sent to investigate what went wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars. Once there, they do battle with a variety of vicious and evil creatures and only a few are able to escape Mars alive. Pathfinder was soon to follow. Pathfinder is an action adventure film concerning the skirmishes that took place between the Vikings and Native Americans a thousand years ago. Set in 847 A.D, a Viking boy is left behind in North America and is adopted and raised as an American Indian. As he grows older he is forced to fight for the survival of his adopted family when a Viking raid wipes out his village. The young man then becomes his adopted people's savior in battling the ferocious Norsemen. In March, 2006, Karl finished filming a movie for New Zealand director Rob Sarkies. Called Out Of The Blue, the movie is based on the Aramoana massacre in New Zealand in 1990, where 13 people were shot dead by local Aramoana resident David Gray, who was then shot dead by police. Karl plays policeman Nick Harvey. The TV mini-series, Comanche Moon was aired on CBS on January 13, 2008. The mini-series follows Karl's character, Woodrow Call, and Gus McCrae (played by Steve Zahn), through their years as Texas Rangers as they fight the Comanche to open West Texas for settlement. Comanche Moon is a sequel to CBS' award winning 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove, where the characters Call and McCrae were originally played by Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, respectively. Filming has also finished on the action thriller Black Water Transit, where Karl stars as a rogue CIA agent, Earl Pike. It is scheduled for release in mid 2008. He was currently filming the latest Star Trek feature film, in which he plays Doctor "Bones" McCoy. Although his work takes him all over the world, he still calls New Zealand home and lives in Herne Bay, an Auckland harbour-side suburb, with his wife Natalie and two sons, Hunter and Indy. (www.karlurbanonline.com) Quote
jewel_cxs Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 I can't believe he didn't have a thread!! me neither! I love him! Quote
cooperIShot Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 OMG i agree!! i can't believe he didn't have a thread here either!! I actually had the honour of meeting him when he came to my hometown back in the late 90's when Xena and Hercules were at its most popular. He came here for a convention, and I practically swooned when i saw him He gave a nice talk about his life and his work, and he answered people's questions regarding everything imaginable!! he's just such a down-to-earth kind-of-guy....so happy to see his thread FINALLY here!! it's about time!! and with the release of next year's highly-anticipated "Star Trek" film, he's sure to get the recognition he deserves!! he'll DEFINITELY be a household name when it comes out!! here's pics of him at the Xena convention, i believe it was in 1998... Quote
jewel_cxs Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 OMG i agree!! i can't believe he didn't have a thread here either!! I actually had the honour of meeting him when he came to my hometown back in the late 90's when Xena and Hercules were at its most popular. He came here for a convention, and I practically swooned when i saw him He gave a nice talk about his life and his work, and he answered people's questions regarding everything imaginable!! he's just such a down-to-earth kind-of-guy....so happy to see his thread FINALLY here!! it's about time!! and with the release of next year's highly-anticipated "Star Trek" film, he's sure to get the recognition he deserves!! he'll DEFINITELY be a household name when it comes out!! here's pics of him at the Xena convention, i believe it was in 1998... hey Chris!! how are you? it's been so long!! Karl is wonderful, I love it when he shaves his head, like in the film The Bourne Supremacy Quote
cooperIShot Posted December 8, 2008 Posted December 8, 2008 OMG i agree!! i can't believe he didn't have a thread here either!! I actually had the honour of meeting him when he came to my hometown back in the late 90's when Xena and Hercules were at its most popular. He came here for a convention, and I practically swooned when i saw him He gave a nice talk about his life and his work, and he answered people's questions regarding everything imaginable!! he's just such a down-to-earth kind-of-guy....so happy to see his thread FINALLY here!! it's about time!! and with the release of next year's highly-anticipated "Star Trek" film, he's sure to get the recognition he deserves!! he'll DEFINITELY be a household name when it comes out!! here's pics of him at the Xena convention, i believe it was in 1998... hey Chris!! how are you? it's been so long!! Karl is wonderful, I love it when he shaves his head, like in the film The Bourne Supremacy OMG that was the only "Bourne" film i DIDN'T see lol....so off to rent it this week!! oh i've been good, just very busy with xmas just around the corner.....how've u been? Quote
jewel_cxs Posted December 9, 2008 Posted December 9, 2008 OMG i agree!! i can't believe he didn't have a thread here either!! I actually had the honour of meeting him when he came to my hometown back in the late 90's when Xena and Hercules were at its most popular. He came here for a convention, and I practically swooned when i saw him He gave a nice talk about his life and his work, and he answered people's questions regarding everything imaginable!! he's just such a down-to-earth kind-of-guy....so happy to see his thread FINALLY here!! it's about time!! and with the release of next year's highly-anticipated "Star Trek" film, he's sure to get the recognition he deserves!! he'll DEFINITELY be a household name when it comes out!! here's pics of him at the Xena convention, i believe it was in 1998... hey Chris!! how are you? it's been so long!! Karl is wonderful, I love it when he shaves his head, like in the film The Bourne Supremacy OMG that was the only "Bourne" film i DIDN'T see lol....so off to rent it this week!! oh i've been good, just very busy with xmas just around the corner.....how've u been? that movie is fantastic! he is so hot! ehehehe I've been good! so, are you still living in the States or did you move to Europe? Quote
cooperIShot Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 OMG i agree!! i can't believe he didn't have a thread here either!! I actually had the honour of meeting him when he came to my hometown back in the late 90's when Xena and Hercules were at its most popular. He came here for a convention, and I practically swooned when i saw him He gave a nice talk about his life and his work, and he answered people's questions regarding everything imaginable!! he's just such a down-to-earth kind-of-guy....so happy to see his thread FINALLY here!! it's about time!! and with the release of next year's highly-anticipated "Star Trek" film, he's sure to get the recognition he deserves!! he'll DEFINITELY be a household name when it comes out!! here's pics of him at the Xena convention, i believe it was in 1998... hey Chris!! how are you? it's been so long!! Karl is wonderful, I love it when he shaves his head, like in the film The Bourne Supremacy OMG that was the only "Bourne" film i DIDN'T see lol....so off to rent it this week!! oh i've been good, just very busy with xmas just around the corner.....how've u been? that movie is fantastic! he is so hot! ehehehe I've been good! so, are you still living in the States or did you move to Europe? i'm still living here in the states...i'm not sure when i'll make the OFFICIAL move to be with my husband, but hopefully it'll be in the near future...I miss him terribly...yeah i'm gonna go check out that movie this weekend...it sounds fab, esp if Karl's HOT in it like u said lol Quote
penny-dreaddfull Posted December 13, 2008 Posted December 13, 2008 nice choice for a thread subj. !! im in love with karl fro 'chronicles of riddick' something about his faux-hawk abd his dead look drive me wild Quote
fuego Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 seen those movies and loved themhope too see new movie off him soonhave you seen pathfinder it,s great Quote
Shepherd Posted July 13, 2016 Posted July 13, 2016 "Star Trek: Beyond" premiere, London, Jul 12 '16 Quote
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