Luke Goss
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Luke Damon Goss is an English
singer and actor
. Since 1994, he has been married to backing singer
Shirley Lewis, (who has worked with singers Elton John
, George Michael
, Luther Vandross
, and many others), and has one stepdaughter, Carli. In January 2007, he and wife Shirley moved permanently to Los Angeles, but still maintain a residence in London. He has appeared in numerous films including Blade II
(2002) as Jared Nomak, One Night With The King
(2006) as King Xerxes
, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) as Prince Nuada and Tekken (2010) as Steve Fox.
brother Matt Goss
, started his career with the hugely successful 1980s boy band
Bros
. In total he has charted with thirteen hit singles in the UK.
When Bros broke up in the early 1990s, Goss worked with the Band of Thieves. His autobiography, "I Owe You Nothing", was a top 10 best seller book and went on to have three subsequent printings. He also began to appear in stage musicals
including Grease
and What a Feeling, and has turned to acting in films full-time, with his first most notable role being the villain Jared Nomak in Blade II
. He also appeared as The Creature
in the Hallmark Channel
's Frankenstein
. Goss can be seen in the 2004 crime drama, Charlie in which he plays real-life gangster Charlie Richardson. Again, in the 2005 comedy, The Man
he stars as another villain, Joey / Kane.
He has since had roles in One Night with the King
, as King Xerxes. He appeared in Bone Dry, as Eddie and in the thriller Unearthed, as Kale. Goss received a CAMIE (Character and Morality in Entertainment) Award for his work in One Night with the King on May 12, 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Both One Night with the King and Bone Dry were viewed at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Bone Dry premiered in Los Angeles on January 9, 2008.
In the autumn of 2008, Goss returned from filming Hellboy II: The Golden Army in Budapest
, Hungary
, in which he plays Prince Nuada
. The sequel was released in North America on July 11, 2008. In February, 2008, he signed to play the role of Steve Fox in Tekken, which was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana
. He was seen in a commercial for the new Cadillac Escalade Hybrid. In January 2010, Goss won the role as Frankenstein in Death Race 2 under the direction from Roel Reiné
, which began shooting on location in Eastern Europe in February, 2010. Goss also played the lead role in Syfy's dark tale television film Witchville. In May 2010, he won the Ultimate Badass Award at the PollyGrind Film Festival
for his role in the zombie-vampire film The Dead Undead.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
singer and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. Since 1994, he has been married to backing singer
Backing vocalist
A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
Shirley Lewis, (who has worked with singers Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
, George Michael
George Michael
George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
, Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
, and many others), and has one stepdaughter, Carli. In January 2007, he and wife Shirley moved permanently to Los Angeles, but still maintain a residence in London. He has appeared in numerous films including Blade II
Blade II
Blade II is a 2002 superhero vampire film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It is the sequel of the Blade film series. It was written by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the previous film...
(2002) as Jared Nomak, One Night With The King
One Night with the King
One Night with the King is a historical epic film that was released in 2006 in the United States. Based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Old Testament Bible story of Esther, who risked her life by...
(2006) as King Xerxes
Xerxes I of Persia
Xerxes I of Persia , Ḫšayāršā, ), also known as Xerxes the Great, was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire.-Youth and rise to power:...
, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) as Prince Nuada and Tekken (2010) as Steve Fox.
Career
Luke Goss along with twinTwin
A twin is one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monozygotic , meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos, or dizygotic because they develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized by two separate sperm.In contrast, a fetus...
brother Matt Goss
Matt Goss
Matthew Weston Goss is an English singer and songwriter currently based in Los Angeles. He was the lead singer of 1980s pop group Bros, which also featured his twin brother Luke Goss as drummer and Craig Logan as bass player...
, started his career with the hugely successful 1980s boy band
Boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
Bros
Bros
Bros were a British band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan...
. In total he has charted with thirteen hit singles in the UK.
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
including Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
and What a Feeling, and has turned to acting in films full-time, with his first most notable role being the villain Jared Nomak in Blade II
Blade II
Blade II is a 2002 superhero vampire film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It is the sequel of the Blade film series. It was written by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the previous film...
. He also appeared as The Creature
Frankenstein's monster
Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name...
in the Hallmark Channel
Hallmark Channel
The Hallmark Channel is a cable television network that broadcasts across the United States. Their programming includes a mix of television movies/miniseries, syndicated series, and lifestyle shows that are appropriate for the whole family...
's Frankenstein
Frankenstein (US TV miniseries)
Frankenstein is a 2004 U.S. television miniseries based on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It follows the original book more closely than other adaptions.The miniseries was edited into a film.-DVD:...
. Goss can be seen in the 2004 crime drama, Charlie in which he plays real-life gangster Charlie Richardson. Again, in the 2005 comedy, The Man
The Man (2005 film)
The Man is a 2005 comedy crime film starring Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miguel Ferrer.The Man is directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried from a screenplay by Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman and Steve Carpenter, based on the story by Jim Piddock and Margaret Oberman...
he stars as another villain, Joey / Kane.
He has since had roles in One Night with the King
One Night with the King
One Night with the King is a historical epic film that was released in 2006 in the United States. Based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Old Testament Bible story of Esther, who risked her life by...
, as King Xerxes. He appeared in Bone Dry, as Eddie and in the thriller Unearthed, as Kale. Goss received a CAMIE (Character and Morality in Entertainment) Award for his work in One Night with the King on May 12, 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Both One Night with the King and Bone Dry were viewed at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Bone Dry premiered in Los Angeles on January 9, 2008.
In the autumn of 2008, Goss returned from filming Hellboy II: The Golden Army in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, in which he plays Prince Nuada
Nuada
In Irish mythology, Nuada or Nuadu , known by the epithet Airgetlám , was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He is cognate with the Gaulish and British god Nodens...
. The sequel was released in North America on July 11, 2008. In February, 2008, he signed to play the role of Steve Fox in Tekken, which was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
. He was seen in a commercial for the new Cadillac Escalade Hybrid. In January 2010, Goss won the role as Frankenstein in Death Race 2 under the direction from Roel Reiné
Roel Reiné
Roel Reiné is a Los Angeles-based Dutch film director.-Death Race: Frankenstein Lives:The Dutch filmmaker becomes the director seat for Death Race: Frankenstein Lives , an official sequel to Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race...
, which began shooting on location in Eastern Europe in February, 2010. Goss also played the lead role in Syfy's dark tale television film Witchville. In May 2010, he won the Ultimate Badass Award at the PollyGrind Film Festival
PollyGrind Film Festival
The PollyGrind Film Festival is an annual event held in Las Vegas, Nevada that specializes in alternative film and video that would not otherwise be screened or find audiences. Spotlighting short films, feature length films, music videos and trailers of all genres, PollyGrind was founded by...
for his role in the zombie-vampire film The Dead Undead.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Stretch | Warwick Locke | |
| Two Days, Nine Lives | Saul | ||
| 2001 | Love Life | Christian | |
| 2002 | Blade II Blade II Blade II is a 2002 superhero vampire film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Blade. It is the sequel of the Blade film series. It was written by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the previous film... |
Jared Nomak | |
| ZigZag ZigZag (film) ZigZag is a 2002 film directed by David S. Goyer. The film was shot in Los Angeles, CA.-Plot:Dean Singer has terminal cancer, yet is determined to spend his last days taking care of his 15 year-old 'big brother program' protégé, Louis 'Zig Zag' Fletcher. Dean got Louis a dishwasher job in... |
Cadillac Tom | ||
| Nine Tenths | Jon Laker | ||
| 2004 | Frankenstein Frankenstein (US TV miniseries) Frankenstein is a 2004 U.S. television miniseries based on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It follows the original book more closely than other adaptions.The miniseries was edited into a film.-DVD:... (TV miniseries) |
The Creature Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name... |
TV miniseries |
| Charlie | Charlie Richardson | ||
| Silver Hawk Silver Hawk Silver Hawk is a 2004 Hong Kong movie starring Michelle Yeoh, Richie Ren, Luke Goss, Michael Jai White and Li Bingbing, directed by Jingle Ma. Yeoh plays the title character, a masked comic book style heroine who rides a motorcycle, saves kidnapped pandas and uses her martial arts moves on the bad... |
Alexander Wolfe | ||
| 2005 | The Man The Man (2005 film) The Man is a 2005 comedy crime film starring Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miguel Ferrer.The Man is directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried from a screenplay by Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman and Steve Carpenter, based on the story by Jim Piddock and Margaret Oberman... |
Joey Kane | |
| Private Moments | Lucien | ||
| Cold & Dark | John Dark | ||
| 2006 | One Night with the King One Night with the King One Night with the King is a historical epic film that was released in 2006 in the United States. Based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Old Testament Bible story of Esther, who risked her life by... |
King Xerxes Xerxes I of Persia Xerxes I of Persia , Ḫšayāršā, ), also known as Xerxes the Great, was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire.-Youth and rise to power:... |
|
| Something in the Clearing | Randy | ||
| Mercenary for Justice Mercenary for Justice Mercenary for Justice is an action film starring Steven Seagal, and also starring Luke Goss and Roger Guenveur Smith. It was released direct-to-video on April 18, 2006. Principal photography was on location in Cape Town, South Africa.- Plot :... |
John Dresham | ||
| 13 Graves | Anton | ||
| 2007 | The Dead Undead | Jack | |
| Bone Dry Bone Dry (2007) Bone Dry is an American drama film from 2007. It was directed by Brett A. Hart, written by Jeff O'Brien, starring Luke Goss and Lance Henriksen.- Cast :* Luke Goss : Eddie* Lance Henriksen – Jimmy* Tommy 'Tiny' Lister – Mitch... |
Eddie | ||
| Shanghai Baby | Mark | ||
| Unearthed Unearthed (film) Unearthed is a 2006 horror film, directed by Matthew Leutwyler and starring Emmanuelle Vaugier . This monster movie opened sometime on November 9, 2007 as one of the "8 Films to Die For" in the After Dark Films Horrorfest.... |
Kane | ||
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Prince Nuada | |
| Deep Winter | Stephen Weaks | ||
| 2009 | Fringe | Lloyd Parr | |
| Annihilation Earth Annihilation Earth Annihilation Earth is a 2009 made-for-television science fiction film for Syfy Channel, directed by Nick Lyon, written by Rafael Jordan, and starring Luke Goss, Marina Sirtis, and Colin Salmon. It follows the attempts by an energy scientist to determine the causes of a deadly explosion at a... |
David | TV series | |
| 2010 | Witchville Witchville (film) Witchville is a 2010 made for television fantasy-adventure film based on witchcraft in a medieval feudal time period, written by John Werner and Amy Krell, and directed by Pearry Reginald Teo. The film was released and distributed by Syfy Network and it stars Luke Goss, Sarah Douglas, MyAnna Buring... |
Malachy | |
| Tekken | Steve Fox | ||
| 2011 | Death Race 2 | Carl "Luke" Lucas / Frankenstein | |
| Blood Out | Michael |
External links
- http://www.lukegossforum.com - Official website
- http://www.lukegossforum.com - Official Facebook
- http://www.myspace.com/lukegosssite - Official MySpace page