sam Worthington
Worthington in 2013 | |
Born | 2 August 1976 (age 46) Godalming, Surrey, England |
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Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | National Institute of Dramatic Art |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2000–present |
Spouse | Lara Bingle (m. 2014) |
Children | 3 |
Samuel Henry John Worthington is an Australian actor. He’s best known for playing Jake Sully in Avatar, Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation, and Perseus in Clash of the elephants and its effect Wrath of the elephants
sam Worthington is an Australian actor. He’s best known for playing Jake Sully in Avatar, Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation, and Perseus in Clash of the elephants and its effect Wrath of the elephants. He latterly took more dramatic places, appearing in The Debt( 2010), Everest( 2015), Hacksaw Ridge( 2016), The Shack( 2017), Manhunt Unabomber( 2017), and Fractured( 2019). On TV, he appeared in his native Australia as Howard in Love My Way and as Phillip Schuler in the TV dramamini-series Deadline Gallipoli, for which he was also an administrative patron. He raised the promoter, Captain Alex Mason, in the videotape game Call of Duty Black Ops( 2010), as well as its conclusions Call of Duty Black Ops II( 2012), and Call of Duty Black Ops 4( 2018). In 2022, he starred in the true crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.
In 2004, Worthington entered Australia’s loftiest film award for his supereminent part in Somersault.
Early life
Worthington was born to English parents in Godalming, Surrey, in South East England, and moved to Perth, Western Australia, when he was six months old. He grew up in Warnbro, a exurb of Rockingham. His mama , JeanneJ.( née Martyn), is a housewife, and his father, RonaldW. Worthington, is a power factory hand.He has a family, Lucinda.
He attended John Curtin College of the trades, a academy specialising in the dramatic trades, located in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he studied drama but didn’t graduate. When he left the council, his father gave him$ 400 and transferred him on a one- way trip to Cairns, Queensland, telling him to” work his way home”. He began working on construction and odd jobs, ultimately settling in Sydney. At age 19, while working as a bricklayer, he auditioned for the National Institute of Dramatic Art( NIDA) and was accepted with a education.
Career
2000 – 2003
Worthington played a small part alongside Adam Garcia in the Aussie cotillion film Bootmen( 2000).( 6) He played a supereminent part in the low budget Aussie comedy Gettin’ Forecourt. better source demanded)
2004 – 2008
Worthington had a major part in Somersault( 2004) and played the lead in a ultramodern Australian retelling of Macbeth( 2006). He won the AFI Award for Stylish Lead Actor for his part in Somersault. He was well known in Australia for his part as Howard in the acclaimed Australian television series Love My Way, in which he played the main love interest of the womanish lead.
Worthington’s transnational film career began with a series of small places in Hollywood product The Great Raid( 2005), which was mugged in Australia. He auditioned for the part of James Bond in Casino Royale but lost the part to Daniel Craig.( 8) He starred in the Australian critter- point film Rogue( 2007), as a man named Neil, which gained a 100 percent fresh standing from Rotten Tomatoes.
2009 – present
Worthington in 2010
In Terminator Salvation, Worthington played cyborg Marcus Wright, who assists humans despite their reservations of him. Worthington’s coming design was the James Cameron- directed wisdom- fabrication film icon, in which he played Jake Sully, a paraplegic formerU.S. Marine who finds himself at the centre of a war between his own species and the indigenousNa’vi people of the moon Pandora. The film came the loftiest- grossing film of all time, grossing further than$2.8 billion($3.4 billion acclimated for affectation) in box- office bills worldwide.
In November 2010, Worthington told GQ Australia. that he went to investigation, but was not told what it was for and got irked. So he did his part, left, forgot about it – and was called back.” I was a bit pissed off, and I suppose that came through,” he says.” I suppose Jim saw a spark and liked it because that is Sully’s character – a joe who does not like to be bullied and a joe who just wants to set effects right.
He handed voice work for Captain Alex Mason, the promoter in the videotape game Call of Duty Black Ops. Some gamers criticised Worthington’s incapability to mask his Australian accentuation, as in Avatar. In November 2010, The Hollywood journalist named Worthington as one of the youthful manly actors who are” pushing – or being pushed” into taking over Hollywood as the new”A-List”.
He was named as one of the entrants to the Who is Who in Australia 2011 edition.
In 2012, Worthington starred in the effect to Clash of the elephants, called Wrath of the elephants, alongside Liam Neeson. As in the first film, Worthington played the god and son of Zeus, Perseus. He also reprised his part as Alex Mason in Call of Duty Black Ops II. Also in 2012, Worthington starred as Nick Cassidy in Man on a Ledge, a suspension- suspenser film directed by Asger Leth. Though the film entered poor reviews from critics, Worthington’s performance entered praise, with The New Zealand Herald describing him as” suitably alarmed”.
Worthington portrayed Jim Fitzgerald in the Discovery Channel TV series, Manhunt Unabomber.
In 2019, Worthington starred as Ray Monroe in the Netflix suspenser film Fractured.
particular life
Worthington and woman
Lara on the 2014 AACTA Awards red carpet
Worthington has said that when he was about 30, he vended utmost of his effects and ended up with around$,000 to his name. He says he bought a auto with the proceeds and was living in it before he auditioned for Avatar.He also set up a place to live.
On 18 October 2013, Worthington had verified rumours of a relationship with fellow Australian, model Lara Worthington( née Bingle). They married on 28 December 2014 and had a son in 2015. In 2016, Bingle and Worthington had their alternate child, another son. In 2020 the couple blazoned the birth of their third child, another son.
Worthington is a Christian.
Legal issues
Worthington in 2014
On 23 February 2014, Worthington was arrested in New York City for assault, after punching a photog, Sheng Li, who followed Bangle to get a” perfect picture”. videotape footage of the incident depicts Worthington pertaining to Bingle as his” woman
“, incubating enterprise about the brace’s connubial status. Worthington was originally released on a office appearance ticket, while Li was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment, assault and importunity.
On 26 February 2014, Worthington appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, where he was ordered to stay down from Li for six months. The case was suspended until 8 May 2014, with the actor to face charges of assault in the third degree, tried assault and importunity.
On 1 April 2014, Li criticized Bingle for starting the fight and called for her to be arrested.latterly that month, Worthington secured a tentative discharge deal on a misdemeanour assault charge, thus, avoiding any jail time, while the charges against Li were dismissed” in the interest of justice”.
Li also filed a$3.7 million civil action against Worthington, which was settled out of court before going to trial in September 2015.