Graham McTavish

Graham James McTavish is a Scottish film, television and voice actor. He is best known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, Dougal Mackenzie in the Starz television series Outlander, and The Saint of Killers in the AMC television series Preacher.

Early in his career, McTavish did theatre work at the Dundee Rep with colleagues that included Jimmy Logan and Robert Robertson.

He played the character Warden Ackerman in series eight of Red Dwarf. McTavish has also had many supporting roles in British dramas and films such as Casualty, Jekyll, The Bill, Taggart and Sisterhood. He also played the ill-tempered mercenary Lewis in Rambo, had a role as Desmond's drill sergeant in the fourth season of Lost, starred in Ali G Indahouse as a customs officer and played a Russian pirate in NCIS. He played Ferguson in the fourth season of Prison Break. He has also starred in the film Green Street 2, which was released on 23 March 2009. McTavish provided the voice and motion capture work for the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the voice of the main protagonist Dante Alighieri in Dante's Inferno, Commander Lucius in Shadow Complex and the Decepticon Thundercracker in Transformers: War for Cybertron. He played Russian foreign minister Mikhail Novakovich in the eighth season of 24, and did voice work as the Marvel Comics villain Loki in Hulk Versus and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. In 2011, McTavish also provided the voices of antagonist Joseph Bertrand III in Infamous 2 and newcomer Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

McTavish has also provided additional voices for What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Heavenly Sword, 007: Quantum of Solace, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

McTavish appeared in the 2011 film The Wicker Tree, Robin Hardy's sequel to his 1973 film, The Wicker Man and played Dwalin in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy.

In September 2013, it was announced that McTavish had been cast as Dougal MacKenzie in the television series Outlander on Starz. The series is an adaption of the bestselling novels by author Diana Gabaldon. The series premiered on 9 August 2014 to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike.

He played Tommy Holiday, boxing trainer to Ricky Conlan (Tony Bellew), in Creed. McTavish became the only actor to perform opposite Sylvester Stallone as both Rocky Balboa and John Rambo.

McTavish currently plays the Saint of Killers in the AMC TV series Preacher, having debuted in that role in the series' second episode, "See", in 5 June 2016.