Portrait of Gavin Hood

Gavin Hood

Directing

Biography

Gavin Hood (born 12 May 1963) is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi (2005). He is the director of the 20th Century Fox film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on 1 May 2009. He is currently working on a film about the 1925 serum run to Nome of Alaska and Balto, the sled dog that became a celebrity because of the run. Called Kings of the Trail. Film released in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gavin Hood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: May 12, 1963

Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa

Filmography

2015
Eye in the Sky

as Lieutenant Colonel Ed Walsh

2013
Ender's Game

as Giant

2004
King Solomon's Mines

as Bruce McNabb

2004
In Enemy Hands

as Achilles Captain

1999
Traitor's Heart

as Roberts

1997
Stargate SG-1

as Colonel Alexi Vaselov

1991
American Kickboxer

as Ken Holligan