Born June 7, 1972 in New Zealand, Karl Urban is an actor best known for his role of Éomer in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. He reportedly earned a $400,000 bonus for his work in these two movies.
Also noteworthy, Urban played Caeser on Xena: Warrior Princess, Kirill in The Bourne Supremacy, Bones (or Dr. McCoy) in the 2009 movie Star Trek, and many other significant roles in blockbuster films.
Urban attended Victoria University for one year in his home land of New Zealand before deciding to leave to pursue an acting career. His hobbies include fishing, surfing, golfing, gardening, and indoor rock climbing. He has one son, Hunter, with his partner Natalie. He is good friends with former co-stars Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn in Lord of the Rings) and Renée O'Connor from Xena: Warrior Princess.
He has also done theatre productions and TV advertisements.
Filmography:
1992 Homeward Bound TV Series - Tim Johnstone
1992 Chunuk Bair - Wellington soldier
1992 Shortland Street TV Series - Paramedic Jamie Forrest
1993 White Fang TV Series - David
1995 Riding High TV Series - James Westwood
1997 Amazon High(TV) - Kor
1998 Heaven - Sweeper
1998 Via Satellite - Paul
1996 - 1998 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Julius Caesar, Cupid
2000 The Privateers (TV) - Capt. Aran Dravyk
2000 The Irrefutable Truth about Demons - Harry Ballard
2000 The Price of Milk - Rob
1996-2001 Xena: Warrior Princess - Julius Caesar, Cupid, Mael, Kor
2002 Ghost Ship - Munder
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Éomer
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Éomer
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick - Vaako
2004 The Bourne Supremacy - Kirill
2005 Doom - John "Reaper" Grimm/ Doomguy
2006 Out of the Blue - Nick Harvey
2007 Pathfinder - Ghost
2008 Comanche Moon - Woodrow F. Call
2009 Black Water Transit - Earl Pike
2009 Star Trek - Leonard McCoy
2009 Reclaiming The Blade - himself
Theatre roles:
1998 The Herbal Bed
1998 Julius Caesar - Mark Antony
1999 Foreskin's Lament
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881631/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Urban