Athletically built gall with sensual and deep brown eyes, which can not lead not to a single lady. This is how Crixus, the gladiator of Batiata's house and the champion of Capua, whose image could perfectly and to the slightest detail transmit to the audience the New Zealand actor, who gained fame after the role of Crix in the series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" (2010), "Spartacus: Gods Arena "(2011) and" Spartacus: Revenge "(2012) by Manu Bennett.
Biography of the actor
The future actor appeared on October 10, 1969. His homeland was one of the largest cities in New Zealand called Oakland. Parents of the boy were unfamiliar sources of art: his mother, being a model, circled in the modeling industry, and his father was a popular New Zealand singer. Some time later the Bennet family, when she was only a few months old, moved to a permanent residence in Australia. Thanks to his parents, the actor inherited Spanish blood from Scotland for his mother and Irish roots for his father. By the way, Manu's father owns New Zealand origin, whose roots go to the so-called Maori tribes. Perhaps this is why the appearance of the actor hides in himself a source of macho macho with the sensual character of a Scotsman.
In 1986 ManuBennett comes to his native New Zealand with a goal to enter college, which he manages. At the time of college, Bennett played for the national rugby team, where he gained tremendous experience in this vision. Just for this reason, after the return of the guy to Australia, he was promptly offered to become a player of the rugby team called "NewSalt Vales Skulboys Rugby Union". But on this proposal, Manu refused, because. his interests radically changed: the future actor began to actively engage in ballet, dancing and even playing the piano. It was these activities that pushed him to the acting profession. After leaving the sports team, he entered the university, where he studied this craft and professional dances. After that, following his vocation as an actor, Bennet moves to live in Los Angeles and goes on to study at the Lee's Theater Institute of Film Strasberg. For his diligent attitude towards study, the student receives a scholarship. By the way, it's worth mentioning that the most popular actors - Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Steve Buscemi, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman - became graduates of prestigious institute Lee Strasberg.
The beginning of the acting career
The professional actor's career Manu Bennett began in 1993. The debut role was played by the role in the youth-wide television series "Paradise Beach". After this debut, the new actor began to be called as a guest actor in other Australian series: "Water Rats" (1996-1997), "All Saints", "Furious Land" (1998), "Master of Beasts" (1999). By the way, in the mini-series called "Violent Earth" the actor played with the popular Australian actress Claudia Karvan.
ManuBennett receives his first major role in 1999, having played in the film "Tomoko". Bennett's partner, therefore, was Emmy Award-winning actress Rumiko Koyanagi.
Soon the actor is offered to play Mark Antony in the most popular series "Xena - the Princess of the Warriors" (2000), on which the agreement. After Manu is removed in the film "Lantana" (2001), where he manages to demonstrate his dance skills, because in this movie, he is awarded the role of a salsa teacher. As the saying goes: "That's useful for dancing!".
In the interval between the series "Xena - Princess of Warriors" and the film "Lantana", the actor comes to New Zealand, where he participates in the filming of the series "Shortland Street" (2000). Zatemon performs in the series "Defender" (2002) the role of a policeman, who eventually becomes a lawyer. From 2002 to 2005, Bennett's acting has a noticeable lull, which in 2006 is diluted by shooting in the film "Marine." It was in this film that such stars of wrestling were shot, like John Sin and Robert Patrick ("Terminator 2"). Then Bennett in the horror film "30 Days of Night" (2007) - MP Billy Kitk. Also in the same year, the screenshots of the American film-thriller Scott Viper "Prisoners", in which the actor plays one of the ten criminals called Paco.
In 2010, Manuel Bennett breaks the starlight hour and he begins work in the American historical series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", where he plays the role of Crixus, he is also the champion of the Gladiatorial battle fights and one of the leaders of slaves at the time of the rebellion of Spartak. The main story of this series is built on the history of Spartacus, which was the forerunner of one of the most massive slavery riots in the territory of the Roman Empire in the period 74 BC. e. - 71 BC. e. By the way, because of the presence of all-erotic erotic scenes, scenes of violence and profanity, the series was placed in a category that is intended exclusively for adults. Shortly before the premiere of the first season of the series, it was announced the planned shootings of the second season, so the "father" of the series, Stephen S. DeNight, in 2011, shoots the second part of the series, which is called "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena", where the role of the cricket all falls in love again Manu Bennett. In the same year the series with Bennett's "Sinbad and Minotaur" takes place - the actor plays the role of Sindbad. And in 2012 on the screens there is the third season of sensational serials Spartacus - "Spartacus: Revenge" all with the same Manu in the role of Crixus. The sequel is scheduled for February 2013. "Spartacus: War of the Damned" will be the final final season of the series. The plot of the third season tells us what happened when Mark Crass took up the rebellion.
Future plans
Manu Bennett took part in the filming of the epic movie of Peter Jackson entitled "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", where he played the king of the orcs of Azoga. It is not superfluous to recall that the "Hobbit" is a film adaptation of the work for the children and adolescent audience of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, which is called "Hobbits back and forth." An interesting fact is that the familiar to us, not only from the series "Spartacus", but also from the "Game of Thrones" Conan Stevens, tried to play the role of Azogai. But soon after Stevens was fixed another person - goblin Bolg.
By the way, despite the fact that the shooting of the last season of "Spartacus" will officially end only a couple of months, Manu Bennett has already finished filming the show. This indicates that the most likely Creeks will die in the 5th-6th series. So fans of Manu Bennett will have a very hard time. But that's not accurate information, because all episodes of the series are shot in different sequences. It remains only to be impatient with patience.
And finally, Manu Bennett for 2013 planned shooting in the American dramatic adventure series "Strela", the continuation of the "Hobbit" - "The Hobbit: Emptiness of Smog", in 2014 in the third part of the "Hobbit" - "The Hobbit: There and Back."