Full Name Joshua Helman Height 1.88 m Role Television actor | Name Josh Helman Occupation Actor | |
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Born 22 February 1986 (age 38) ( 1986-02-22 ) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Movies and TV shows Similar People Nathan Jones, Angus Sampson, George Miller, Daniel Cud, Damon Herriman | ||
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Joshua "Josh" Helman (born 22 February 1986) is an Australian television and film actor. Helman is perhaps best known for his role as William Stryker in X-Men: Days of Future Past, and its sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse. He has also appeared in the 2015 installment of the Mad Max franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, as Slit. Helman has also appeared on a number of television series and mini-series, including recurring roles in Home and Away, The Pacific, Flesh and Bone and Wayward Pines.
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- Mountain Views Kate Cant Swim
- Mad Max Fury Road Josh Helman Slit Behind the Scenes Interview
- Early life
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Mad Max: Fury Road: Josh Helman "Slit" Behind the Scenes Interview
Early life
Helman was born in Adelaide, South Australia.
Career
Helman started acting when he got a recurring role on the Australian television show Home and Away in 2007, playing Denni Maitland. He then got a small role in a short film Aidan's View where he played the role of an intruder trying to break into the house of the protagonist. A few years later, he was cast as Cpl. Lew "Chuckler" Juergens in the American television show, The Pacific. He appeared in 6 episodes. He was then signed on by American talent agency The Gersh Agency. He made his major studio motion picture debut in 2012 when he was cast as Jeb Oliver in Jack Reacher. He returned to Australia and was cast in Blinder, a film based on Australian rules football drama.
He co-starred in the ensemble Marvel Comics film, X-Men: Days of Future Past, as William Stryker—shown, through footage, to be the younger/1973 version of the Stryker played by Brian Cox in X2 (2003). He later played Slit, alongside two-time fellow X-Men actor Nicholas Hoult, in the Mad Max sequel Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). In 2016, he had a main role in season two of the television series Wayward Pines, a psychological thriller by M. Night Shyamalan.
