Arnold Vosloo

Arnold Vosloo, a South African and American actor, embarked on a career in acting starting with stage performances and starring roles in South African films like 'Boetie Gaan Border Toe' in 1984. After moving to the United States in the late 1980s, he built a reputation for his portrayal of villainous characters, most notably as Imhotep in 'The Mummy' (1999) and 'The Mummy Returns' (2001). His other prominent roles include films like 'Hard Target' (1993), 'Agent Cody Banks' (2003), 'Blood Diamond' (2006), 'Silverton Siege' (2022), and his character Zartan in 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' (2009) and 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' (2013). Vosloo also displayed his range in television roles, playing terrorist Habib Marwan in the fourth season of '24' (2005), Amit Hadar on 'NCIS' (2009-10), Robin van Rees in Cape Town (2016), and Rudy Tafero on 'Bosch' (2017). He has made significant contributions to video games as well, providing his likeness and voice to the main hero (Saul Myers) of the video game, 'Boiling Point: Road to Hell', published in summer 2005 by Atari. In personal life, Vosloo is known to have a good sense of humor and once admitted in an interview with Charlie Rose that he often jokingly confirmed to those who mistook him for the actor Billy Zane, as 'the guy in Titanic'.