Actor Julian McMahon, identified for his starring roles in Nip/Tuck, Charmed, FBI: Most Wished and the 2000s Unbelievable 4 motion pictures, died July 2 in Clearwater, Florida after a personal battle with most cancers. He was 56.
“With an open coronary heart, I want to share with the world that my beloved husband, Julian McMahon, died peacefully this week after a valiant effort to beat most cancers,” McMahon’s spouse, Kelly McMahon, mentioned in a press release to Deadline. “Julian cherished life. He cherished his household. He cherished his mates. He cherished his work, and he cherished his followers. His deepest want was to deliver pleasure into as many lives as potential. We ask for help throughout this time to permit our household to grieve in privateness. And we want for all of these to whom Julian introduced pleasure, to proceed to search out pleasure in life. We’re grateful for the recollections.”
McMahon — who is also survived by his daughter Madison “Maddy” McMahon — was born in Sydney, Australia, on July 27, 1968. His father, Billy McMahon, served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972. Beginning his profession as a mannequin, McMahon transitioned to appearing with a lead function on the short-lived 1989 Australian daytime cleaning soap The Energy, the Ardour. He segued to a different Aussie cleaning soap, the long-running Residence and Away, the place he appeared from 1990-91 earlier than making his characteristic appearing debut as a lead reverse Elliott Gould within the 1992 Australian-American film Moist and Wild Summer season! McMahon then moved to Hollywood and began off his American profession the best way he did his Australian one — with a job on a daytime cleaning soap.
After a stint on NBC’s One other World in 1993, McMahon transitioned to primetime as a sequence common on the community’s crime drama Profiler for its four-season run. He went on to hitch the WB’s fashionable supernatural drama Charmed for a three-season starring flip because the demonic Cole Turner.
Julian McMahon in ‘Nip/Tuck’
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Subsequent up, McMahon landed his first sequence lead when he and Dylan Walsh headlined Ryan Murphy’s hit cosmetic surgery drama Nip/Tuck, which ran on FX for six seasons and earned him a Golden Globe nomination for taking part in the good-looking, charming (and promiscuous) Dr. Christian Troy.
“I’m surprised,” Walsh instructed Deadline. “We rode this wave collectively and I cherished him. My coronary heart goes out to Kelly and Maddy. Jules! I do know you’d need me to say one thing to make you smile — all the within jokes. All these years you had my again, and my god, we laughed. My coronary heart is with you. Relaxation in peace.”
Nip/Tuck established McMahon as a TV main man, along with his standing reaffirmed when he was tapped because the star of CBS’ FBI: Most Wished. He performed workforce chief Jess LaCroix from the FBI’s Most Wished Unit for 3 seasons earlier than his shock March 2022 exit.
Julian McMahon as Jess LaCroix
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“What stunning information,” FBI franchise boss Dick Wolf mentioned in a press release to Deadline. “All of us at Wolf Leisure are deeply saddened by Julian’s passing and our condolences exit to his total household.”
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McMahon’s TV resume additionally features a sequence common stint on Hulu’s Marvel’s Runaways. In options, he’s finest identified for his starring function as Dr. Doom in Tim Story’s two Unbelievable 4 motion pictures, the 2005 Unbelievable 4 and the 2007 sequel Unbelievable 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. McMahon’s movie credit additionally embrace Premonition, RED, Paranoia, You’re Not You, Swinging Safari, and most lately, the 2024 The Surfer with Nicolas Cage, which premiered within the Midnight Screenings part on the Cannes Movie Pageant, and The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat.
Julian McMahon in ‘The Surfer’
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“Such deeply saddening information. I spent six weeks working with Julian, and he was essentially the most proficient of actors,” Cage instructed Deadline. “Our scenes collectively on The Surfer have been amongst my favorites I’ve ever participated in, and Julian is one in all my favourite folks. He was a form and clever man. My like to his household.”
McMahon’s last function was on Netflix’s homicide thriller sequence The Residence. In a full-circle second, McMahon tapped into his roots for the half, enjoying the Australian Prime Minister.
