Graham McTavish is an Irish film and theater actor, director and producer. His career began with small roles in the series: "Taggart", "Pure English Murder", "Catastrophe". The audience knows the actor well for the role of the dwarf Dwalin in the Hobbit trilogy. Today, the actor has more than seventy film roles, and in the coming years at least six films with his participation will appear on the screens.
Graham first appeared on television in the first episode of the 1986 miniseries Return to Treasure Island. Today the actor has a large number of admirers of his talent all over the world, despite the fact that most of McTavish's roles are secondary.
He starred in such famous projects as "Highlander", "Rambo 4", "Merlin: The First Magic", "Colombiana", "Jekyll", "Rome", "Empire", "The Hobbit", "Preacher", "And the storm has struck "," Outlander "," Aquaman ".
early years
The boy was born in 1961 into an ordinary family in the city of Glasgow. When the child was ten years old, the family left the country and moved from place to place for a long time. Graham lived first in Canada, then in the UK and New Zealand.
Only after graduating from high school and receiving an acting education did McTavish return to Scotland, where he began working at the local Dundee Rep Theater. From that moment on, the actor's creative biography began.
Film career
He first thought about filming a movie at the age of twenty-two. He was invited to play in the project "Return to Treasure Island". This work did not bring fame to Graham, but film critics noted his performance, and the directors began to invite the young actor for new roles.
The artist played the following small roles in the series: "Taggart", "Purely English Murder", "Red Dwarf", "For the Queen and Country", "Catastrophe".
McTavish performed his first major role in the drama Macbeth, based on Shakespeare's tragedy and directed by Jeremy Friston. The actor has embodied the image of Lord Banquo on the screen.
Then McTavish was immediately followed by several proposals from the directors. He played in such films as: "Merlin: The First Magic", "King Lear", "Doctors", "Tension", "24 Hours", "Little Red Riding Hood".
Graham is best known for his work in the films: Rambo IV, King Arthur, Creed: Rocky's Legacy, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2 - The Cradle of Life, Lost.
World fame came to McTavish, after the release of the famous film "The Hobbit", where he played the role of Dwalin. The film was based on the novel by the popular writer R. Tolkien. From 2012 to 2014, three parts of the picture appeared on the screens. The first film was called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the second was The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and the third was The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
All three films were successful worldwide and were nominated for awards: Oscar, Saturn, MTV, British Academy, Georges.
Since 2014, several films and TV series have been released in which McTavish played minor, but very vivid roles: Outlander, Transformers: Undercover Robots, Creed: Rocky's Legacy, Colony, Preacher, And the storm burst out "," Aquaman ".
Personal life
About how Graham spends his free time, as well as his family life, neither the press nor the fans know practically nothing. The actor does not like to talk about his family, it is not known whether he is married and whether he has children. He leads a rather private lifestyle, gives almost no interviews and does not like to draw attention to his person.
