Tomas Arana

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Tomas Arana on the set of Gladiator

Tomas Arana (born April 3, 1955 in Auburn , California ) is an American actor .

Life

Thomas Arana has been an actor since the late 1970s. After training as an actor at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, he worked on Broadway in New York. After seeing Lina Wertmüller's film Love and Anarchy , he became increasingly interested in European and especially Italian films . He moved to Italy and settled there in Naples , where he worked in the Galleria Lucio Amelio from 1978 . In the same year he had, alongside Lucio Amelio, his first small supporting role in Wertmüller's film Blood Feud alongside Sophia Loren , Marcello Mastroianni and Giancarlo Giannini . In the following two films he also played alongside Mastroiannis, who strongly influenced him in his acting. During this time he toured Italy and Europe with the theater group Falso Movimento with performances in Rome, Bologna, Stuttgart, Rotterdam, Vienna, Basel and Utrecht. In 1982 Arana decided to quit the Galleria Lucio Amelio and devoted himself entirely to his work in the theater group, with which he soon had international appearances. In 1987 he left Falso Movimento and from then on only worked as a film actor.

In 1990 he had his first major role in John McTiernan's espionage thriller The Hunt for Red October . In this he embodied the ship's cook Igor Loginow, who acts as an undercover secret service agent on board the submarine. Arana's youthful idol Sean Connery played the main role of the captain Marko Ramius, who was shot by Loginov in the course of the plot.

Other important roles followed as an assassin in Bodyguard on the side of Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston or Frank Stillwell in Western Tombstone about the shooting at OK Corral . He had his international breakthrough in 2000 in the role of Praetorian leader Quintus in the multiple Oscar-winning monumental film Gladiator , directed by Ridley Scott . In 2006, Arana starred as Hillside Strangler Angelo Buono Jr. in the TV movie Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c My life in the movies by Tomas Arana on tomasarana.com, accessed on March 28, 2011 (archive version)
  2. ↑ a b Falso Movimento by Tomas Arana on tomasarana.com, accessed on March 28, 2011 (archive version)
personal data
SURNAME Arana, Tomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Auburn , California, United States