Karl Urban
Birthday: 1972-06-07
Place of Birth: Wellington, New Zealand
Biography: Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June 1972) is a New Zealand actor. His career began with appearances in New Zealand films and TV series such as Xena: Warrior Princess. His first Hollywood role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship. Since then, he has starred in many high-profile movies, including as Éomer in the second and third installments of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Vaako in the second and third installments of Riddick film series, Leonard McCoy in the Star Trek reboot film series, Kirill in The Bourne Supremacy (2004), John "Reaper" Grimm in Doom (2005), Judge Dredd in Dredd (2012), Gavin Magary in Pete's Dragon (2016), and Skurge in Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok (2017). In 2013, he starred in the sci-fi series Almost Human. Since 2019, he has starred as Billy Butcher in Amazon's superhero streaming television series The Boys.
Movies
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forc...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the ...
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Pathfinder
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe,...
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The Bourne Supremacy
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows u...
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The Chronicles of Riddick
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself ca...
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Out of the Blue
Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madne...
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The Price of Milk
Lucinda lives a fairytale life with dairy farmer Rob, and his 117 cows. But after a freak car accide...
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Doom
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a scien...
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And Soon the Darkness
When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes m...
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Ghost Ship
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers c...
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Star Trek
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill...
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The Irrefutable Truth About Demons
In the place between what you know, and what you fear, demons rule. All hope is stripped away as dem...
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Priest
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, ...
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RED
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassemb...
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Dredd
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-dr...
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I, Object
10-year-old Tom, grieving the loss of his father and unable to relate to the people in his life, tak...
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Star Trek Into Darkness
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from w...
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Mortal Kombat II
The fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the u...
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The Loft
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital ...
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Reclaiming the Blade
The Medieval and Renaissance blade, a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans o...
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Riddick
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against...
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Walking with Dinosaurs
In a time when dinosaurs rule the Earth, the smallest dinosaur of the herd, a playful Pachyrhinosaur...
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The Sea Beast
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic jour...
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Via Satellite
As a family gather to watch one of their own swimming in the Olympics, minutes of fame become a hila...
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Riddick: Blindsided
This motion comic gaps the bridge between 2004's The Chronicles of Riddick, and 2013's Riddick. A ne...
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Star Trek Beyond
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mys...
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Pete's Dragon
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dra...
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The Bluff
Set in the 19th-century Caribbean, a former female pirate must protect her family when the mysteriou...
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Thor: Ragnarok
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get...
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50 Years of Star Trek
Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in Septembe...
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Building Star Trek
When "Star Trek" first aired in 1966, it expanded the viewers' imaginations about what was possible ...
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Mr. Butcher
A promotional short film, Mr. Butcher, was released to Twitter on August 2, 2019, with Karl Urban re...
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Heaven
A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, f...
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Hangman
A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are ins...
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Acts of Vengeance
A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he find...
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Bent
On his latest private investigation, a shamed former cop connects a murder case to a government cons...
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Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
A long overdue documentary that tells the story of 2000AD, the unsung cult hero of the comics indus...
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For the Love of Spock
The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty y...
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DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock
Just after recovering from losing his entire unit in battle, Sgt. Rock leads a special army of comma...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Damero...
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The Making of 'The Return of the King'
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the K...
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The Making of 'The Two Towers'
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 2002's "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Cre...
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Batman: Death in the Family
Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to r...
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