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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

34

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-05-12 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Johannesburg, South Africa

Also Known As

Gavin Hood

Biography

Gavin Hood (born 12 May 1963) is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi (2005). He is the director of the 20th Century Fox film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on 1 May 2009. He is currently working on a film about the 1925 serum run to Nome of Alaska and Balto, the sled dog that became a celebrity because of the run. Called Kings of the Trail. Film released in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gavin Hood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

A Reasonable Man

1999

A Reasonable Man

as

Sean Raine

Traitor's Heart

1999

Traitor's Heart

as

Roberts

Eye in the Sky

2015

Eye in the Sky

as

Lieutenant Colonel Ed Walsh

In Enemy Hands

2004

In Enemy Hands

as

Achilles Captain

Ender's Game

2013

Ender's Game

as

Giant

American Kickboxer

1991

American Kickboxer

as

Ken Holligan

Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1

as

Colonel Alexi Vaselov

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines

as

Bruce McNabb

Production

Crew

Directing