Illustrated portrait of Holt McCallanyFLM.RED

HOLT
McCALLANY

โฮลต์ แม็กคัลลานี

From the ring to the interrogation room

An actor whose work includes Fight Club, Lights Out and Mindhunter.

Film roles and television leads

Holt McCallany is an American actor whose work spans film and television. His screen credits include Alien 3, Fight Club and Three Kings, as well as later roles in films such as The Iron Claw.

In Fight Club (1999), he played the Mechanic. The role is one of his collaborations with filmmaker David Fincher; he later played FBI agent Bill Tench in the Netflix series Mindhunter, on which Fincher was also a director and executive producer.

McCallany also starred in the television drama Lights Out as a former boxer. The film listed below comes from the FLM.RED catalogue and is not a complete list of his work.

Selected performances

1999

Fight Club

Played the Mechanic in David Fincher’s film.

1999

Three Kings

Appeared in the war film.

2011

Lights Out

Starred as a former boxer in the television drama.

2017

Mindhunter

Played FBI agent Bill Tench.

Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.

Films in FLM.RED

Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.

Sources & image notes

Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.