Christian Troy

Christian Troy
File:Christiantroy.jpg
First appearance	Pilot (episode 1.01)
Created by	Ryan Murphy
Portrayed by	Julian McMahon
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Plastic Surgeon
Family	Gail Pollack (mother) unnamed rapist (father) Mr. Troy (foster father) Max Pollack (half-brother) Sarah Pollack (half-sister)
Spouse	Kimber Henry {ex-fiancée} Michelle Landau (ex-fiancée)
Children	Matt McNamara (illegitimate son) Emme Lowell (illegitimate daughter) Wilbur Sutherland (adopted son) Aborted Child (via Artificial Insemination by Liz Cruz)
Relatives	Granddaughter Jenna McNamara

Dr. Christian Troy is a fictional character played by Julian McMahon on the FX Networks series Nip/Tuck. The show revolves around McNamara/Troy, the plastic surgery practice he runs with his business partner and best friend, Sean McNamara.

Character history

Christian Troy is initially characterized as a self-absorbed womanizer with no qualms about using people to get what he wants. He drives flashy cars, wears Gucci suits, and frequents Miami's best nightclubs.

The character is eventually shown to have a vulnerable side beneath his callous exterior, however. In one episode, he confesses that he was molested as a child by his foster father. This early trauma destroyed his faith in a just God. In another story arc, he meets his biological mother, who tells him that he is the product of rape; she then cuts off any contact with him because he is the spitting image of his father, her rapist.

He has had affairs with most of the series' female characters, including Sean's wife, Julia; unbeknownst (at least initially) to Sean, his son Matt is, in fact, Christian's biological child, with whom he is very close and protective of. The show's first two seasons include many episodes centered around Christian's dysfunctional relationship with Kimber, a former patient whom he often manipulated and cheated on.

In the first season, he had a one-night stand with Gina Russo, a recovering sex addict. Gina, angered to have broken her vow of celibacy, resolved to make Christian's life miserable, and the two initiated a bitter, love/hate relationship that was not resolved until the fourth season. After the one-night stand, Gina became pregnant and throughout the pregnancy, Christian believed he was the father. At birth, Christian realized he was obviously not the father since the child was half black. However, Christian adopted her son, Wilbur. After becoming a father more of the soft side of Christian emerged. The clearest example of this came around the time of his fortieth birthday. After trying hiring a nanny to watch his son, he began sleeping with her, and while having sex with her one night, he found out that she had been giving Wilbur cough medicine to keep the baby quiet. He immediately fired her and spent the night of his birthday with his son, his birthday wish being a prayer to God to make him a good father. He would later lose custody of Wilbur when Wilbur's real father sued for custody.

In the third season, Christian himself is raped by The Carver, a masked serial killer preying on McNamara/Troy's patients. He is briefly suspected of, and arrested once for, the Carver's crimes. A distraught Christian temporarily withdraws from work, prompting Sean to bring in another surgeon, Quentin Costa. Costa involves himself in Christian's relationship with Kimber Henry, and the two become bitter rivals; it is eventually revealed that Costa is none other than The Carver. He almost married Kimber but she was kidnapped by the Carver; after she was rescued, she would not let Christian see what the Carver did to her face. She broke off their relationship so she could do some soul-searching. Eventually, Kimber came back as a Scientologist. When Kimber became pregnant, Christian stole DNA for a paternity test, convinced he was the real father.

During that time Christian began dreaming about having sex with Sean. Distressed, he entered psychotherapy with Dr. Faith Wolper — and eventually had sex with her. She later told him that she is a recovering sex addict, and realized after their tryst that she still had a problem. She then asked him to remove a tattoo an ex-lover had forced her to get as a means of degrading her. Christian eventually realized the dreams are the result of his own personal identity crisis, and resolved his problems with Sean. He also began an affair with Michelle Landau, the wife of McNamara/Troy's new owner. Soon after they met, Christian suspected her of having a relationship with a woman named James who was smuggling organs out of the clinic. Christian found out that James was Michelle's former pimp, and blackmailed her into having sex with him. He eventually began to care about her, however, and paid James off to leave her and McNamara/Troy alone.

Michelle's husband, Burt, found out about the affair from Wolper, and tried to force the two to have sex in front of him. When Burt later tried to have sex with Michelle, he had a stroke and died after she refused him medicine. After Burt's death, Christian and Michelle became engaged, and Michelle agreed to be Wilbur's adoptive mother. James did not keep her end of the bargain, however; she used McNamara/Troy as a base of operations. Christian then found out that James worked for drug lord Escobar Gallardo (one of the series' primary villains). James eventually committed suicide. He and Michelle bought Sean's stake in McNamara/Troy after Sean moved to California. Just as it seemed they would live happily ever after, Christian found out that she had been James' accomplice in the organ smuggling ring. Disgusted, he left her and followed Sean to California.

However life isn't easy in LA and they spend their first 2 months without any client. Desperate, they join a show as consults and guest-stars. Due to hair implants gone wrong he was cut out while Sean enjoyed his first day of fame. Out of spite he broke a confidentiality agreement and revealed he had done some surgery on an actress to get recognition himself. This falls flat as he is double crossed by the magazine, which doesn't publish his story and tells his agent. He then does a porn photoshoot, attracting the gays to his office. He also takes part in Marylin Monroe impersonator conflict but they reconcile and end up having a three-way where Christian wants to be like a star. He then has sex with Julia only for her to reveal it was to get him out of her system. Christian becomes a male prostitute due to a woman who mistakes him for an actual prostitute named Campbell. Afterwards, the client tells a friend, her friend's fantasy ends badly, making Christian give up his duty as a prostitute, and Christian decides to give religion a try after meeting a nun. He then has trouble with Eden as she threatens to tell Sean about his night with Julia, he solves that problem by setting her up to look like a drug addict and admitting her into rehab. She comes back while they are filming a reality show and reveals the truth but Sean doesn't believe her and she then tells him she lied. He is also trying to get Julia and Olivia to break up.

Julia and Christian begin to have relationship behind Olivia's back. Sean eventually discovers their relationship and both admit to him that they are in love. However, Christian is tempted to cheat on Julia yet again with Gina, who was hired temporarily as receptionist. Oddly enough, Sean had chosen Gina for this position because Christian was the least likely to cheat with her, but the two find non-coital means to have an affair. When Gina admits the affair to Julia and Christian meets her on the roof of his office building to serve her a restraining order, he is offered a condom by Gina. He begins to have intercourse with her on the ledge of the roof, when Gina is thrust off the building, falling to her immediate death.

Recently Matt slept with a patient of Christian's named Emme after Christian tried to set them up together after Matt's break up with Rachel. After they had sex Emme mentions to Matt that Christian is her father. She had earlier told Christian that she was from Cleveland, Georgia and that she was conceived via a one night stand. Matt and Emme discussed staying a couple despite having the same father. Emme's mother, a woman who lost her legs due to diabetes, came to LA to meet with Christian, whom she says took her virginity during his spring break in Fort Lauderdale, which resulted in the conception of Emme. She informed Christian that Emme was his daughter and that she was sleeping with his son. The two immediately got a paternity test to ensure that Emme was Christian's daughter and the test proved positive, afterwards they informed the two "siblings" that they should stop their sexual relationship to be replaced by a more sibling relationship. Emme and Matt confronted each other before Emme left for Georgia and she tried getting him to come with her, but he eventually broke it off with her.

Ex-lovers

• • Julia McNamara
  • Kimber Henry
  • Gina Russo
  • Ava Moore
  • Erica Noughton
  • Janelle (tanning booth girl)
  • Mandi & Randi Dante
  • Grace Santiago
  • Wilbur's Babysitter
  • Manya Mabika
  • Andrea Hall
  • Renée (prostitute)
  • Natasha Charles
  • Glen Campden
  • Kit McGraw
  • Abby Mays
  • Jill & Riley White (Mother & Daughter)
  • Blue Monday/Ashley Wednesday (stripper)
  • Dr. Faith Wolper
  • Michelle Landau
  • Dawn Budge
  • Carly Summers
  • Joyce & Sharon Monroe
  • Lulu Grandiron