Tomas Arana is an American actor. He appeared in the films The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Bodyguard (1992), L.A. Confidential (1997), Gladiator (2000), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Limitless (2011) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Career
editArana has played leading and supporting roles in over 30 European productions including films by directors Lina Wertmüller, Liliana Cavani, Carlo Verdone and Michele Soavi, and with the Japanese director Koreyoshi Kurahara in the Toho production See You. He appeared as Quintus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, Michael Bruening in Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and in the second film of the Bourne series, The Bourne Supremacy.
Arana also played the GRU sleeper agent Loginov in the 1990 film adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October, the would-be killer in 1992's The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, a Belarusian resistance leader in Edward Zwick's 2008 film Defiance, and The Man In The Tan Coat in 2011's Limitless alongside Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. He appeared in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, as Bruce Wayne's lawyer. In 2013, Arana appeared in the miniseries Crimes of the German television broadcaster ZDF. In 2014, Arana appeared as a Kree ambassador in Guardians of the Galaxy.[1]
In theatre, Arana was a producer and leading actor in the theatre company Falso Movimento, based in Naples, Italy. Under Arana and artistic director Mario Martone, Falso Movimento won many awards including Best Play of the Year and Best Set Design, as well as the Mondello Prize.[citation needed]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Blood Feud | Fascist | Uncredited role |
| 1979 | Atrocious Tales of Love and Death | Walter Navarro | Uncredited role |
| 1981 | The Skin | American G.I. | |
| 1986 | Incidente di percorso | Rebelsky | |
| 1987 | Io e mia sorella | Gábor | |
| 1988 | Intimacy | Porter | |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Lazarus | ||
| Umi e | Juan Vasquez | ||
| Domino | Gavros | ||
| 1989 | The Church | Evan | |
| Francesco | Learned Brother | Uncredited role | |
| 1990 | The Hunt for Red October | Matrose Igor Loginov | |
| 1991 | The Sect | Damon | |
| Shadows and Fog | Confessing Man | Uncredited role | |
| 1992 | Body Puzzle | Michael | |
| The Bodyguard | Greg Portman | ||
| 1993 | Over the Line | The Warden | |
| Tombstone | Frank Stilwell | ||
| 1996 | First Kid | Harold | |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Detective Sergeant Michael Breuning | |
| 1998 | Passage to Paradise | Harrison | |
| Heartwood | Jordan Barrett | ||
| 1999 | Branchie | Subotnik | |
| Wildflowers | Wade | ||
| 2000 | Gladiator | Quintus | |
| 2001 | Chimera | Tomas Berti | |
| Pearl Harbor | Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher | ||
| 2002 | Derailed | Mason Cole | |
| 2003 | The Accidental Detective | Matt Brandon | |
| This Girl's Life | Aronson | ||
| 2004 | La volpe a tre zampe | Il Generale | |
| Il servo ungherese | August Dailerman | ||
| The Bourne Supremacy | CIA Director Martin Marshall | ||
| Legami sporchi | Raymond Toom | ||
| 2005 | Private Property | Nigel | |
| 2006 | Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders | Angelo Buono | |
| 2008 | Defiance | Ben Zion Gulkowitz | |
| 2010 | Mission London | Munroe | |
| 2011 | The Roommate | Jeff Evans | |
| Limitless | Man In Coat | ||
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Ward Neeley | |
| 2013 | The President's Staff | President Harry Carrey | |
| Romeo & Juliet | Lord Montague | ||
| 2014 | The Possession of Michael King | Augustine | |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | Kree Ambassador | ||
| 2016 | Ustica: The Missing Paper | Fragalà | |
| Incarnate | Felix | ||
| 2017 | American Satan | Reporter | |
| 2019 | Don't Stop Me Now | Eden Bauen | |
| 2021 | Echoes of the Past | General von Le Suire | |
| 2024 | Limonov: The Ballad | Steven | [2] |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | The Taming of the Shrew | Clown | TV film |
| 1985 | Otello | Iago | TV film |
| Perfidi incanti | F. Scott Fitzgerald | TV film | |
| 1987 | Il cespuglio delle bacche velenose | Andrea | TV film |
| 1988 | The Prince of Terror | Vincent Omen | TV film |
| 1989 | Miami Vice | Walter Stevens | Episode: "Over the Line" |
| 1990 | Blue Blood | Ugo Mancini | 1 episode |
| 1996 | Seduced by Madness | Leon | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| The Lazarus Man | Andrew Hawthorne | Episode: "Killer" | |
| 1997 | The Burning Zone | Professor Herbert Tobler | Episode: "Midnight of the Carrier" |
| The Hunger | Rick McCabe | Episode: "Red Light" | |
| 1998 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Jackson Mandell | Episode: "Tribe" |
| Players | Andrew Pickett | Episode: "Con-undrum" | |
| 2001 | ER | Rifkin | Episode: "Fear of Commitment" |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Rudy Langer | Episode: "Art" | |
| Thieves | Honigger | Episode: "Bad Moon Rising" | |
| 2002 | Il Comissario | L'Americano | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| Without a Trace | Chuck | Episode: "Midnight Sun" | |
| 2003 | CSI: Miami | Mr. Davis | Episode: "Evidence of Things Unseen" |
| Skin | Garret | Episode: "Secrets & Lies" | |
| 2003–2004 | Spooks | Herman Joyce | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | Crossing Jordan | Father Casnelli | Episode: "Til Death Do Us Part" |
| Frankenfish | Jeff | TV film | |
| 2005 | 24 | Dave Conlon | 2 episodes |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Joseph Diamond | Episode: "Shooting Stars" | |
| 2006 | In Justice | Detective Ben Dryer | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Justice League Unlimited | Tharok | Voice, episode: "Far From Home" | |
| 2007 | Pompeii | Massimo | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses | Rene De Leon | TV film | |
| Bats: Human Harvest | Dr. Benton Walsh | TV film | |
| 2008 | Rebecca, la prima moglie | Jack Favell | TV film |
| 2008–2009 | Tutti pazzi per amore | Riccardo Balstrieri | 12 episodes |
| 2009 | Lie to Me | Judge Simon | Episode: "The Core of It" |
| 2010 | Crimini | Zen | 1 episode |
| Colpo di fulmine | Lorenzo Fieschi | TV film | |
| 2012 | 6 passi nel giallo | Marc Douglas | Episode: "Gemelle" |
| 2013 | Project S.E.R.A. | Corvallis | Web series, 6 episodes |
| Crime Stories | Unbekannter Mann | Episode: "Notwehr" | |
| 2014 | Intelligence | DNI Adam Weatherly | 10 episodes |
| 2016 | Code Black | Admiral Stark | Episode: "What Lies Beneath" |
| 2020 | The New Pope | Tomas Altbruck | |
| 2021 | Succession | Laurie | 2 episodes |
| 2024 | Mike | Philip Bongiorno | TV film |
References
edit- ^ Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - IMDb. Retrieved 10 June 2024 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ AlloCine. Limonov, la ballade (in French). Retrieved 25 August 2024 – via www.allocine.fr.
External links
edit- Tomas Arana at IMDb