Holt McCallany Movies and Career Information

Holt McCallany (born September 3, 1964) is an American actor, writer, and producer working primarily in film and television. He was born as Holt Quinn McAloney in New York City to theatrical parents. His mother is Julie Wilson, an American singer and actress, who has long been considered one of the best cabaret performers in the United States. His father, Michael McAloney, is an Irish actor and producer best known for his Tony Award winning production of Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy, an autobiographical play about a young member of the Irish Republican Army, which was the first Irish production to win top honors on Broadway. Holt began school in Dublin at the age of five because his father wanted an Irish education for his two sons, Holt and his younger brother Michael. However, following his parents' divorce the family moved back to the United States and Holt attended school in New Jersey while his parents worked in separate Broadway shows. He was later sent to live with his maternal grandparents in Omaha, Nebraska, where he had a troubled childhood and was expelled from the Jesuit Creighton Preparatory School. At the age of 14, he ran away from home and took a Greyhound bus to Los