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Karl Urban (born June 7, 1972), an actor from Wellington, New Zealand, is best known for playing Éomer, in the second and third films of
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Urban attended St Mark's Church School in Wellington, New Zealand, where he showed an early love for public performance. He went on to Wellington College.
Some of his earlier work included roles on New Zealand soap Shortland Street, which apparently interrupted his planned attendance of Victoria University of Wellington, and a guest role on the second season of police drama
Shark in the Park.
Urban was seen on the internationally syndicated American television shows
' and ' in which he played both Cupid and Julius Caesar from 1996 to 2001. These shows were filmed in New Zealand. He recently co-starred in The Chronicles of Riddick with
Vin Diesel and
Judi Dench and The Bourne Supremacy with
Matt Damon.
Karl Urban is playing the lead character in Universal Pictures' Doom which commenced production in 2004 with a release date of August 5, 2005.
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