“With an open coronary heart, I want to share with the world that my beloved husband, Julian McMahon, died peacefully this week after a valiant effort to beat most cancers,” McMahon’s spouse, Kelly, shared in a press release to Deadline.
Julian McMahon, finest identified for his starring roles in Nip/Tuck, Charmed, FBI: Most Wished and the 2000s Improbable 4 movies, handed away July 2. He was 56.
In a press release shared by McMahon’s spouse, Kelly, Friday, it was revealed that the Australian actor had been battling most cancers when he died peacefully surrounded by his household in Clearwater, Florida.
“With an open coronary heart, I want to share with the world that my beloved husband, Julian McMahon, died peacefully this week after a valiant effort to beat most cancers,” Kelly stated in a press release to Deadline. “Julian cherished life. He cherished his household. He cherished his buddies. He cherished his work, and he cherished his followers. His deepest want was to carry pleasure into as many lives as potential. We ask for help throughout this time to permit our household to grieve in privateness. And we want for all of these to whom Julian introduced pleasure, to proceed to seek out pleasure in life. We’re grateful for the recollections.”
McMahon, who was the son of Billy McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia from 1971–1972, started his profession in modeling earlier than transitioning to performing with a lead function within the 1989 Australian daytime cleaning soap The Energy, the Ardour, earlier than transferring on to the broader identified Residence and Away from 1990–1991.
McMahon’s foray into Hollywood actually started in 1992, nevertheless, when he starred reverse Elliott Gould within the Australian-American movie Moist and Wild Summer time!. After transferring stateside, McMahon labored on the cleaning soap One other World, earlier than touchdown a primetime function as a sequence common on Profiler for 4 seasons. He then went on to play Cole Turner, Alyssa Milano’s husband on Charmed, the place he appeared for 3 seasons.
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His huge break, nevertheless, got here in 2003, with the function of Dr. Christian Troy, alongside Dylan Walsh, in Ryan Murphy’s Nip/Tuck, which aired on FX for six seasons and earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
McMahon went on to star in a number of different tv exhibits, together with CBS’ FBI: Most Wished in addition to Hulu’s Marvel’s Runaways, and most not too long ago, Netflix’s The Residence, which noticed him moving into his father’s footsteps enjoying the Australian Prime Minister.
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On the massive display screen, McMahon is finest remembered for portraying Dr. Doom in 2005’s Improbable 4 and its 2007 sequel, Improbable 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. His different notable movie credit embody Premonition, RED, Paranoia, You are Not You, Swinging Safari and The Supremes at Earl’s All‑You‑Can‑Eat.
McMahon’s final public look got here in March on the SXSW movie and music pageant [BELOW].
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The late actor was on-hand to for the premiere of his newest movie, The Surfer, which debuted on the pageant earlier than its launch in theaters on Could 2. Within the movie, McMahon performs Scally, the chief of a surf cult that clashes with the protagonist, performed by Nicholas Cage, when he returns to his childhood seaside.
Tributes to McMahon started pouring in following the information, together with from a few of his former castmates, like Ioan Gruffudd, who starred alongside McMahon as Mr. Improbable within the Tim Story-directed movie.
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“That is terribly unhappy information about Julian. Despite the fact that we performed one another’s nemeses, there was at all times a lot lightness and laughter working collectively. Each encounter with him was a pleasure,” Gruffudd wrote on Instagram, alongside a sequence of images of McMahon, in addition to one among him and his former co-star on the pink carpet.
He continued, “It was an honor to be Dr. Richards to his Dr. Doom. My coronary heart goes out to his spouse and household. God pace Julian.”
McMahon’s Nip/Tuck co-star and TV spouse, Kelly Carlson, additionally paid tribute to McMahon, sharing a video on Instagram through which she gave her emotional response to the information.
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“You possibly can hear my telephone going off,” Carlson started, her voice cracking. “I simply heard in regards to the passing of Julian McMahon. And I’ve gotten a variety of very nice messages on Instagram, I simply checked ‘trigger I used to be simply instructed, and I used to be attempting to confirm it, proper? ‘Trigger I folks can say stuff like that, but it surely seems to be prefer to be true.”
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“And oh my gosh, I am fully shocked, and saddened by it,” she continued, captioning the put up with a number of damaged coronary heart emojis. “I did not know he wasn’t properly for some time, however I’ll say my coronary heart goes out to Kelly, his spouse, his daughter, his ex-wife, who they continue to be shut buddies and raised their daughter collectively, and he has a sister.”
Carlson added, “It is robust to course of, somewhat bit as a result of he performed my on-and-off husband for a number of years, was an excellent good friend, and my performing accomplice. So anyhow, Jules, thanks for an incredible, six, seven years on Nip/Tuck collectively, and we had a lot enjoyable. All people hd a lot enjoyable.”
After a message to the followers, Carlson ending her video by sharing her hopes in McMahon’s last moments, together with that he had a peaceable journey and remarking on his “full” however quick life.
McMahon’s Charmed co-star, Rose McGowan, additionally commented on his passing, taking to her Instagram Tales to share a fan picture of the late actor with the caption, “Oh Julian you power of brilliance, wild expertise and humour.”
“For you, your loved ones and loving followers all around the world, I pray consolation,” she added.
