Julian Dana William McMahon (July 27, 1968 - July 2, 2025) was an Australian-American actor and model.
He was best known for his roles as plastic surgeon Christian Troy on Nip/Tuck, Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four films, Cole Turner in Charmed, and Robert Stanton in Red.
He was married to Kylie Minogue's sister Dannii, then to Brooke Burns, with whom he has a daughter, and at the time of his death, was married to Kelly Paniagua. His parents are the late Australian Prime Minister Sir William McMahon and Sonia Hopkins, Lady McMahon. He acquired American citizenship in The '90s.
He passed away on July 2, 2025 at age 56 following a private battle with head and neck metastatic cancer.
No relation to the wrestling business family that used to run WWE.
Film Roles
- Wet And Wild Summer as Mick Dooley
- Magenta (1996) as Michael Walsh
- Chasing Sleep (2000) as George
- Meet Market (2004) as Hutch
- Fantastic Four as Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom
- Premonition (2007) as Jim Hanson
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) as Dr. Doom
- Red (2010) as Robert Stanton
- Faces In The Crowd (2011) as Sam Kerrest
- Bait 3D (2012) as Doyle
- Fire with Fire (2012) as Robert
- Paranoia (2013) as Miles Meechum
- Youre Not You (2014) as Liam
- Swinging Safari (2018) as Rick Jones
- Monster Party (2018) as Patrick Dawson
- The Surfer (2024) as Scally
Television Roles
- The Power The Passion (1989) as Kane Edmons
- Home and Away (1990 - 1991) as Ben Lucini
- GP (1992) as Constable Colin Carmody (1 episode)
- Another World *(1993) as Ian Rain (1993)
- Profiler (1996 - 2000) as Det. John Grant
- Will & Grace (1998) as Guy (1 episode)
- Charmed (1998) as Cole Turner (2000-2005)
- Nip/Tuck as Christian Troy
- Robot Chicken (2008) as Dr. Doom/Newscaster (voice, 1 episode)
- Full Circle (2013) as Stanley Murphy (3 episodes)
- Childhood's End (2015) as Rupert Boyce (1 episode)
- Hunters (2016) as McCarthy (6 episodes)
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) as Zachariah Webb (3 episodes)
- Runaways (2017 - 2018) as Jonah/Magistrate
- FBI (2019 - 2021) as Jess LaCroix (2 episodes)
- FBI: Most Wanted (2020 - 2022) as Jess LaCroix
- The Residence (2025) as Stephen Roos