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It’s a sad coincidence. With the release of the new Marvel Studios movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/em> just a few weeks away, the actor who brought his own brand of refined menace to the role of Dr. Doom in Fox’s 2000s FF films, Australian-born Julian McMahon<\/a>, died last week at 56.<\/p>\n

A native of Sydney, Julian was born in 1968. His father, William McMahon, was a leading Liberal politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister in 1971-72. After studying law and economics in college, the younger McMahon switched career tracks and left to work as a model in Europe. Returning Down Under after his father’s death in 1988, Julian did commercial work and soon landed roles on the popular Aussie soap operas The Power, The Passion<\/em> and Home and Away<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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His motion picture debut came in the 1992 Australian-U.S. beach comedy Exchange Lifeguards<\/em>, released in America as Wet and Wild Summer!. <\/em>McMahon came stateside the following year and won a recurring role on the NBC soaper Another World<\/em>. He later played Detective John Grant on the 1996-2000 crime drama Profiler<\/a>. <\/em>Julian was both evil and romantic as the half-demon Cole Turner, sent to destroy the Halliwell sisters only to fall in love with Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), in Seasons Three to Five of the supernatural series Charmed<\/em><\/a>. During this time he also had supporting turns in such indie films as 2000’s Chasing Sleep<\/em> and 2004’s Meet Market<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Leaving Charmed<\/em> in 2003, McMahon hit the ground running when Ryan Murphy cast him as womanizing plastic surgeon Dr. Christian Troy in FX’s acclaimed drama Nip\/Tuck<\/em><\/a>. He got to play a very different<\/em> kind of doctor when he was tapped to co-star in 2005’s Fantastic Four<\/em><\/a> as the superhero team’s masked archfoe Victor Von Doom, aka Dr. Doom. Comics fans were mixed on the villain’s on-screen depiction but generally liked McMahon in the role, and he returned to menace mankind again in the 2007 sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Julian co-starred with Sandra Bullock in the time-travel thriller Premonition<\/em><\/a> (2007); portrayed a filmmaker taken hostage in an abandoned penitentiary in the suspenseful Prisoner<\/em><\/a> (also ’07); and played the U.S. Vice President in the espionage actioner RED<\/a> (2010), with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. His later movie r\u00e9sum\u00e9 included the 2013 action tale Paranoia<\/em><\/a>; the 2018 dark comedy Monster Party<\/em><\/a>; and his final film role in the 2024 drama The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After starring as Special Agent Jess LaCroix in the 2020-23 CBS series FBI: Most Wanted<\/em>, McMahon’s last recurring TV role was as–of all things–the Prime Minister of Australia in Netflix’s satirical The Residence<\/em> earlier this year. After battling cancer for several years, the actor passed away on July 2 at his Florida home.<\/p>\n

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