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McIntyre at the 2014 Florida SuperCon
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Born |
Adelaide, Australia |
8 February 1982
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2007–present |
Spouse(s) | Erin Hasan (m. 2014) |
Liam James McIntyre (born 8 February 1982) is an Australian actor best known for playing the lead role in the Starz television series Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War of the Damned.
McIntyre began his career acting mainly in short films, before performing guest roles in Australia's popular television series Rush and Neighbours. McIntyre made his US television debut guest starring in an episode of the award nominated HBO mini-series The Pacific.
After Andy Whitfield's 2010 diagnosis of Non-Hodgkins lymphoma (and later death in 2011), McIntyre replaced him in the title role of Spartacus for the subsequent seasons.
McIntyre made his feature film debut appearing alongside Kellan Lutz in The Legend of Hercules, in the role of Sotiris.
On May 4, 2014, McIntyre starred in the Channel 7 thriller The Killing Field.
McIntyre was born in Adelaide, Australia. In 2010 he began dating Australian singer and actress Erin Hasan, the star of the original Melbourne and Sydney productions of musical Wicked as the Glinda standby. They were engaged in December 2012, and married on 5 January 2014.