GRAHAM MCTAVISH — FATHER KINLEY FROM LUCIFER

GRAHAM MCTAVISH — FATHER KINLEY FROM LUCIFER

1. Graham James McTavish was born on 4 January 1961. He is a Scottish film, television, and voice actor.
2. McTavish was born in Glasgow, Scotland the son of Alec and Ellen McTavish. The family, especially his father, was politically active, and political discourse was common in their household.
3. His family left Glasgow when McTavish was a child, and throughout his adult life, he’s lived in places such as Canada, the United States, and England before settling in New Zealand.
4. During school, McTavish and a friend would write and perform comedy sketches, which led to his drama teacher asking him to step in to cover a role in Sheridan’s The Rivals after the principal actor became ill.
5. He went on to attend the Queen Mary University of London, earning a degree in English Literature.
6. This degree course allowed him to perform in three Shakespeare plays per year while at school and led to McTavish earning his equity card after performing in a play by Samuel Beckett.
7. Early in his career, McTavish did theatre work with the repertory theatres of London’s West End and at the Dundee Rep with colleagues that included Jimmy Logan and Robert Robertson.
8. He is known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, Vlad Dracula Tepes in the Netflix series Castlevania, and The Saint of Killers in the AMC series Preacher.
9. He is also known for his roles in the video game franchise Uncharted as the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and as Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.
10. McTavish’s first professional role, in 1986, was in episode two of Walt Disney’s mini-series Return to Treasure Island.
11. He next featured in 1988’s Freedom Fighter (aka Wall of Tyranny), which was broadcast on ITV and starred Tony Danza as a man who helped those living in East Berlin cross the Berlin Wall.
12. Between 1998–1999, he went on to appear in several episodic television series including a three-part episode of ITV’s Glasgow-based crime drama Taggart, BBC One medical drama Casualty, BBC Two’s sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, and ITV’s police drama Heartbeat.
13. McTavish returned to the crime drama Taggart in 2005’s episode “Mind Over Matter” and to medical drama Casualty in the series nineteen episode “Baby Love”.
14. That same year he was cast in two separate series based upon events from the rise of the Roman Empire. First was a five-episode role as General Rapax in ABC’s mini-series Empire, which chronicled Octavius, who would become Emperor Augustus.
15. 2007 saw McTavish feature in numerous episodic television productions. He portrayed The Dark Spirit in a three-episode guest appearance on CBS’s web series Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, which explored the world through the ghost’s perspective. The series is a spin-off of their supernatural series Ghost Whisperer.
16. 2018 saw McTavish feature in the recurring role of Andrew MacGregor in USA Network’s science fiction series Colony, which explores Earth after an alien attack.
17. Season four of the Netflix drama Lucifer, with McTavish in the recurring role of Father Kinley, debuted in 2019. The series was based upon Neil Gaiman’s Lucifer character from The Sandman comics.
18. MacTavish returned to Outlander in 2020, in a surprise appearance as William Buccleigh MacKenzie, the son of Dougal MacKenzie and Geillis Duncan (Lotte Verbeek).
19. Later that year, he and Outlander co-star Sam Heughan announced that STARZ had ordered eight episodes of their travel documentary Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip With Sam and Graham, though no release date has been set.
20. In 2020, McTavish announced that he and fellow Outlander actor Sam Heughan would be releasing a book, entitled Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other, which was inspired by their work on the upcoming STARZ docu-series Men in Kilts.
21. McTavish lives in Wellington, New Zealand with his two daughters, Honor McTavish and Hope McTavish.
22. In April 2015, McTavish was the 17th Grand Marshall of New York City’s Tartan Day Parade.