Nathan Craig Fillion Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Nathan Fillion (/ˈfɪljən/; born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle as well as his earlier portrayal of the lead role of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its feature film continuation, Serenity.He has acted in traditionally distributed films like Slither and Trucker, Internet-distributed films like Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, television soap operas and sitcoms, and theater. Fillion has also voiced several video games, including the Bungie titles Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach and Destiny.
Holy Trinity Catholic High School, University of Alberta, Concordia University of Edmonton
Nationality
Canadian
Parents
Cookie Fillion, Bob Fillion
Siblings
Jeff Fillion
Awards
People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actor, People's Choice Award for Favorite Crime Drama TV Actor, Shorty Award for Best Actor, Shorty Award for Best Celebrity
Nominations
People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Duo, People's Choice Award for Favorite On-Screen Chemistry, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor - Drama/Action Adventure, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, Screen Ac...
Movies
Serenity, Guardians of the Galaxy, Slither, Waitress, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Saving Private Ryan, White Noise: The Light, Much Ado About Nothing, Monsters University, Justice League: Doom, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, Blast from the Past, Dracula 2000, Ordeal in the Arctic, Super, Justic...
TV Shows
Castle, James Gunn's PG Porn, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Drive, Justice League, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Two Guys and a Girl, Maggie Winters, Total Security
Star Sign
Aries
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Trademark
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Known for playing unusual but highly likeable characters
[describing how he blew his chance at serving on a jury] We're talking to this judge who belonged on TV. He was handsome, had good hair. He was telling us about the importance of jury duty. I was riveted. He was funny, and at one point they call you back into the room and they're gonna decide whether or not they're gonna use you. I walk in. They're all charming, they're all nice, and one of them says, 'Hey, you're an actor!' I decided to have a little fun and I said, 'Yes, I'm a very good actor, which brings me to the point: I don't know which juror I'm playing. I still didn't get my script.' The judge didn't get it. He looks at me and he says, 'There's no script', I said, 'Oh, improv. Good. Let me give you a little back story to my character. I'm the guy, when they sequester the jury in the hotel, I tie the bedsheets together, I come out the window and I pit the plaintiffs against the defence attorney'. I got excused.
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[on the DVD commentary for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), talking about his skill at portraying "Joey Buchanan" on One Life to Live (1968)] The only question you have to ask yourself is 'How good a Joey Buchanan was I?' A man's 'Buchananity' is what separates him from reptiles and lawn furniture.
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[on Firefly (2002)] - It was my favorite job ever. What wasn't great about it? I got to wear a low-slung holster. I got to ride horses. I got to have a spaceship. I got to act mean and curmudgeonly. [Creator Joss Whedon] is really good at kicking characters in the nuts so the other characters would have laughs at my expense and that was great too. ... If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet. ... We're the most story-literate society the world has ever seen. What Joss tends to do is twist story conventions into reality. Whereas the story goes like this, real life goes like this, and that's what Joss has mastered.
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(When asked if he would go back and do a Firefly (2002) TV series again after Serenity (2005)): I hope so. Daddy's got bills to pay!
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(When asked what makes Caleb unique and threatening): His accent. Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.
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(When asked what he likes about playing a villain): Being able to be evil. You can't do the evil things that you want to do in real life. You certainly can't because it's against the law and society says all that they have to say about being evil. You want to be bad everyday. You want to do the bad evil things that you can't get away with and now I'm able to be bad and super strong. It's a fantasy.
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(About Serenity (2005)): There is nothing like a major motion picture to make you feel a little bit better about having your TV show canceled.
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(When asked about his relationship with Joss Whedon): I'll tell you this. No one has ever shown the kind of faith in me that Joss Whedon has shown, in both giving me a lead on his sci-fi show Firefly (2002) and in letting me play a villain for the very first time. No one's ever let me play a villain before. So, I would say that I think he's done great things for my career and certainly my confidence in general.
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(On Firefly fans attempts to save the show) It's very Jehovah's Witness. I'm not sure if anyone's actually going door to door, but it's not far off.
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(Talking about the cancellation of Firefly (2002)): I broke the cardinal rule of don't fall in love with what you're doing, because the rug can get yanked out from underneath you, and when it did, I was heartbroken.
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My favorite villains are the ones you don't see coming. What I enjoyed about playing Caleb was that he was so very, very clever, so very, very sweet, and so very, very twisted. I liked that he's not a typical villain. He's soft and sweet and righteous, and yet he's perverted and twisted in his head.
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I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures ...
Before Stana Katic was ultimately cast, he read with 125 actresses auditioning for the role of Kate Beckett.
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Is an avid fan of video games and collects comic books.
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Has voiced Hal Jordan/Green Lantern in three different animated features: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011), Justice League: Doom (2012), Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013) And Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015).
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He is deaf in his left ear. He lost his hearing in that ear in 1977.
Claims to be descended from Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early. When told this, Joss Whedon created a bounty hunter by the name of "Jubal Early" for the Firefly (2002) episode Firefly: Objects in Space (2002).
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One of four actors from Firefly (2002) who voiced superheroes on Justice League (2001). He voiced the Western-themed "Vigilante" while Adam Baldwin voiced "Hal Jordan," the Silver Age-Green Lantern; Gina Torres voiced "Vixen"; and Morena Baccarin voiced "Black Canary.".
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Attended Concordia University College of Alberta and the University of Alberta.
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Has an older brother, Jeff Fillion, who decided to go into teaching. He taught in schools in Edmonton, Alberta, and became a principle at St. Richards Edmonton catholic school where he made a movie with the kids and got his brother Nathan to do the introduction. It was about the school going into space.
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Parents are Cookie and Bob Fillion, both of whom are retired English teachers.
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When he won Best Actor at the 2006 SyFy Genre Awards for his portrayal of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly (2002), the show had been off the air for around three years.