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Background[]
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- Shark in the Park (1991) 6 episodes
- White Fang (1993) 1 episode
- Cover Story (1996) 1 episode
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1996-98) 2 episodes
- Xena: Warrior Princess (1996-01) 12 episodes
- Amazon High (1997)
- Heaven (1998)
- Via Satellite (1998)
- Truth About Demons (2000)
- The Price of Milk (2000)
- The Privateers (2000)
- Ghost Ship (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
- The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
- Doom (2005)
- Out of the Blue (2006)
- Pathfinder (2007)
- Comanche Moon (2008) 3 episodes
- Star Trek (2009)
- Black Water Transit (2009)
- RED (2010)
- And Soon the Darkness (2010)
- Priest (2011)
- Dredd (2012)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- Riddick: Blindsided (2013)
- Riddick (2013)
- Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
- Almost Human (2013-14) 13 episodes
- Short Poppies (2014) 1 episode
- The Loft (2014)
- Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD (2014)
- The Wonder (2014)
- Star Trek Beyond (2016)
- Pete's Dragon (2016)
- DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock (2019)
Trivia[]
- His hobbies include fishing, surfing, golf and gardening.
- Was considered for the role of Kainan in Outlander, which went to Jim Caviezel.
- Is an ambassador for KidsCan, a charity that supports more than 16,000 disadvantaged children by providing shoes, food, and coats.
- Enjoys video games, which is what influenced him to take a role in the film adaptation Doom.
- He named his son "Indiana" after Harrison Ford's iconic character Indiana Jones, of whom Karl is a huge fan.
- Has been a huge fan of the 2000 AD Comics' character Judge Dredd since his teens and got to play the character in the film adaptation Dredd.
- On the set of The Chronicles of Riddick, he passed the time by playing Dungeons & Dragons with Vin Diesel, Judi Dench and Thandie Newton.
Quotes[]
- "When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back."
- "I'm high-energy. Nothing beats a great smile."
- "I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really."
- "If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing."
- "My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you."
- "That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something."
- "That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do."
- "There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors."
- "When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie."
- "Dredd represented a failure in marketing. I saw the tracking of that film weeks before it came out and the fundamental problem was no one knew it was being released. Once it came out on DVD and it sold 750,000 copies in the first week alone in North America alone, it was very clear that the audience had discovered it."