Graham McTavish (born 1961) is a Scottish actor who plays Dwalin in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. He is also known for voice acting in major games, such as Modern Warfare 3, and Uncharted 3.
Career
He has played the character Warden Ackerman in five episodes of the 8th series of Red Dwarf. McTavish has also had many supporting roles in British dramas and films such as Rome, Casualty, Jekyll (starring James Nesbitt), The Bill, Taggart and Sisterhood.
McTavish and Ken Stott (who plays McTavish's character's brother, Balin) both appeared in the 2004 historical action film King Arthur.
McTavish provided the voice and motion capture work for the evil psychopathic war criminal Zoran Lazarevic in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the voice of the main protagonist Dante Alighieri in Dante's Inferno, Restoration leader Commander Lucius in the Shadow Complex video game, and the Decepticon Thundercracker in Transformers: War for Cybertron. He played Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Novakovich in the eighth season of 24, and did voice work as the Marvel Comics villain Loki in Hulk Vs. Thor and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. In 2011, McTavish also provided the voices of antagonist Joseph Bertrand III in Infamous 2 and newcomer Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
In 2003 he participated on a series of documentaries based on Tolkien's work, called 'Secrets of Middle-Earth : Inside Tolien's Lord of the Rings'.
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Richard Armitage • John Bell • Manu Bennett • Cate Blanchett • Orlando Bloom • Jed Brophy • Adam Brown • John Callen • Benedict Cumberbatch • Luke Evans • Martin Freeman • Stephen Fry • Ryan Gage • Mark Hadlow • Peter Hambleton • Craig Hall • Sir Ian Holm • Stephen Hunter • Robin Kerr • William Kircher • Sir Christopher Lee • Evangeline Lilly • Sir Ian McKellen • Graham McTavish • James Nesbitt • Mary Nesbitt • Peggy Nesbitt • Dean O'Gorman • Lee Pace • Mikael Persbrandt • John Rawls • Andy Serkis • Conan Stevens • Ken Stott • Aidan Turner • Stephen Ure • Hugo Weaving • Elijah Wood |