Early life

An Afrikaner of Dutch and German ancestry, Vosloo was born into a Pretoria acting family, his parents having been stage-actors. They lived in Despatch, where his father ran a drive-in theater, and Alberton. He has one sister. After high school and military service (from which he received a medical discharge), he took drama courses at the Pretoria Technikon.

Career

Vosloo began his acting career in the South African theatre where he won several Dalro Awards for his performances in such plays as Don Juan, Hamlet, and Môre is 'n Lang Dag (Tomorrow is a Long Day) and he quickly became a regular at Pretoria's State Theatre. He also starred in Torch Song Trilogy and won another award for the TV show, Meisie van Suid-Wes (Girl from South-West-Africa).

In 1984, he moved on to film where he continued Dalro Award-winning performances in films such as Boetie gaan Border toe (Boetie goes to the border, a comedy about the Border War) acting alongside fellow South African actor Frank Opperman, and Circles in a Forest (based on the book Kringe in 'n Bos by author Dalene Matthee) in 1990. Vosloo also starred in the "Boetie" sequel, Boetie op maneuvers (Boetie on maneuvers) in 1986. Vosloo also starred in Morenga (1985), Saturday Night at the Palace (based on the play by Paul Slabolepszy about racism in South Africa), Skeleton Coast (1987) and The Rutanga Tapes (1990). Upon arriving in the U.S., Vosloo returned to the theatre where he appeared in Born In The R.S.A. at Chicago's Northlight Theatre and in the NY's Circle In The Square Uptown's short-lived production of Salomé (1992) together with Al Pacino.

His American film debut was in 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992). He later appeared in the two less successful sequels to the 1990 film Darkman, Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1994) and Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996), filling the shoes of Liam Neeson as the titular character Darkman. He's also known for portraying villains such in the John Woo film Hard Target (1993), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. He played the title role of the 1999 film The Mummy (starring Brendan Fraser), as well as its 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns. In both films he played Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian high priest and the main antagonist. Vosloo also played François Molay, the main villain's henchman, in the 2003 film Agent Cody Banks.

In 2004, The Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride opened in both Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando and Hollywood. Vosloo and Fraser were there at both openings to promote the new rides, in which both of them star, as well as featuring a life size image of Vosloo as The Mummy.

Alongside his film career, he guest-starred in several TV series including The Red Shoe Diaries, American Gothic (1995), Nash Bridges (1995), Charmed (2000), Alias (2004) and NCIS (2009). He was one of the main characters in Veritas: The Quest (2003). He also had a major role in the fourth season of 24 (2005), as terrorist leader Habib Marwan. Vosloo appeared in three episodes of Chuck in 2009 as Fulcrum agent Vincent.

In 2004, Vosloo returned to South Africa to make Forgiveness, about an ex-policeman who seeks out the family of the anti-Apartheid activist that he killed. He played mercenary Colonel Coetzee, in the 2006 film Blood Diamond which was partially filmed in South Africa. Vosloo has been involved in video games: His likeness, as well as his voice, was chosen for main hero (Saul Myers) of video game Boiling Point: Road to Hell, published in summer of 2005 by ATARI. Vosloo portrayed the Cobra mercenary and master of disguise, Zartan, in the summer 2009 release G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Personal life

In 1988, Vosloo became a naturalized United States citizen after marrying his Act of Piracy and Skeleton Coast co-star Nancy Mulford; they divorced three years later. On 16 October 1998, he married Southern California native Silvia Ahí, a Mexican-American marketing director. Vosloo and Ahí are spokespersons for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW.

In an interview with Charlie Rose, Vosloo noted he looked similar to American actor Billy Zane. According to Vosloo, when people came asking him if he was "the guy in Titanic", he replied "of course, of course!" as a joke.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Funny People II	himself	Prank movie in the genre of Candid Camera; Vosloo is one of the victims in the Japanese meeting situation
1984	Boetie gaan border toe	Boetie	Afrikaans-language film about conscription during the South African Border War
1985	Morenga	Schiller
1987	Skeleton Coast	Blade
	Saturday Night at the Palace	Dougie
	Steel Dawn	Makker
1988	Act of Piracy	Sean Stevens
	Gor	Norman
1989	Reason to Die	Wilson
	The Revenger	Mackie
1990	Circles in a Forest	Saul
	Living to Die	Jimmy
	The Rutanga Tapes	Assad
	Buried Alive	Ken Wade
1992	The Finishing Touch	Mikael Gant
	1492: Conquest of Paradise	Hernando de Guevara
1993	Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare	Bill
	Hard Target	Pik van Cleaf
1994	Darkman II: The Return of Durant	Darkman/Dr. Peyton Westlake	Direct-to-video film
1995	American Gothic	Rafael Santo	Television series, Guest star in A Tree Grows in Trinity
	Fallen Angels	MacMan	Television series, Guest star in Fly Paper
1996	Nash Bridges	Alex Abe	Television series, Guest star in Genesis
	Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die	Darkman/Dr. Peyton Westlake	Direct-to-video film
1997	Zeus and Roxanne	Claude Carver
1998	Rough Draft	Stefan
	Progeny	Dr. Craig Burton
1999	Strange World	Dark-Haired Man	Television series, Guest star in Pilot and Spirit Falls
	The Mummy	Imhotep	main antagonist
2000	Charmed	Darklighter	Television series, Guest star in Murphy's Luck
2001	The Red Phone: Manhunt	Wolf	Television Film
	The Mummy Returns	Imhotep	main antagonist
2002	Endangered Species	Warden
	Con Express	Anton Simeonov
	Warrior Angels	Luke
	Global Effect	Dr. Richard Hume	The Scorpion King (2002) main antagonist
2003	Veritas: The Quest	Vincent Siminou	Television series, Series Regular
	Agent Cody Banks	François Molay
	The Red Phone: Checkmate	Wolf	Television Film
2004	Alias	Mr. Zisman	Television series, Guest star in Crossings
	Meltdown	Khalid/Sands	Television Film
	Forgiveness	Tertius Coetzee
2005	24	Habib Marwan	Television series, recurring character, main antagonist of season 4. He also has the distinction of being the most recurring actor in the "Big Bad" role, with 17/24 episodes including one voice-over in episode 4x20.
	Im Auftrag des Vatikans (Death Train)	Lennart	Television Film
2006	Blood Diamond	Colonel Coetzee
2007	Living & Dying	Detective Rick Devlin
	Shark	Andre Zitofsky	Television series, Guest star in "Gangster Movies"
2008	Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists	Odysseus
	Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles	King Augustin
2009	Chuck	Vincent	Television series, Guest star in "Chuck Versus the Predator," "Chuck Versus the Dream Job" and "Chuck Versus the Colonel"
	NCIS	Mossad Officer Amit Hadar	Television series, Guest star in "Aliyah" and "Enemies Foreign"
	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	Zartan
2010	Psych (TV series)	J.T. Waring	Television series, guest star,season 4 episode 12 "A very Juliet episode"
	Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam	Black Adam	Animated direct-to-video short
2011	Bones	Jacob Ripkin Broadsky	Television series, guest star, 3 episodes
	All-Star Superman	Bar-El	Animated direct-to-video film
	Young Justice	Kobra
2013	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Zartan
	Elementary	Christos Theophilus a.k.a. "Narwhal"	Television series, season 1, episode 24
	Odd Thomas	Tom Jedd	Horror after the novel of Dean Koontz
2014	Crisis	Jakob Vries	Television series, season 1
2015	Grimm	Jonathon Wilde	Television series, season 4

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