Craig Robert Young

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Craig Robert Young
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Young in 2006
Born
Craig Robert Yates

(1973-10-04) 4 October 1973 (age 51)
Nottingham, England, UK
OccupationActor
Years active1998–present
SpouseMichael Di Girolamo

Craig Robert Young (born 4 October 1973) is a British actor who began his acting career at age ten, starring in the stage production of The Price of Coal . By the time he was 17, he moved to London to attend the Central School of Speech and Drama, whereupon he was chosen to become a member of the pop band Deuce, scoring four top 30 single hits: "Call It Love", "I Need You", "On the Bible", and "No Surrender".

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Young soon began a successful stint as Alex Wilkinson in the long-running, award-winning British television series Dream Team . [1] In 2001, he moved to Los Angeles, where he soon became a regular on the MTV series Spyder Games . Other television roles followed, including appearances on Hollywood 7 , Charmed , Sabrina the Teenage Witch and The District . Young was also cast in the films Totally Sexy Loser (2003) and Wannabe (2005), the latter of which he co-wrote with director Richard Keith.

In addition to appearing in the Zoey 101 pilot, [2] Young portrayed Coach Moore in Nickelodeon's soccer series Just for Kicks .

He originated the role of Will Fairchild in the play Boise, USA in 2008. [3]

More recently, he has appeared in The CW's 2009 series Melrose Place , playing Ella Simms's German love-rat famed director Franz Keppler. He recurred on the TV series 10 Things I Hate About You , playing yet another German, Frank Kline. J. J. Abrams has cast him in three of his TV series, Lost , What About Brian , and Fringe . [4]

In July 2010, Young acted in the World War II action thriller Return to the Hiding Place (2011). In 2011, he had a recurring role on NCIS: Los Angeles as Dracul Comescu, an enemy to NCIS Special Agent G. Callen (Chris O'Donnell) with the role even expanding over to the Hawaii Five-0 episode "Pa Make Loa" which was a crossover between both NCIS: Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0 with Young's role as Comescu ending when his character was shot dead by O'Donnell's character, Callen.

In the spring of 2014, Young played the role of Nicky Lancaster in Noël Coward's The Vortex . After a wildly successful[ citation needed ] run in Malibu, he reprised his role with the same cast at The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles in the winter to rave reviews. In addition, he also played roles in episodes of the TV series Hit the Floor and Hot in Cleveland .

Young portrayed Charlie Chaplin in David Fincher's 2020 Oscar winning movie Mank , starring alongside Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried.

Personal life

Craig Robert Young married advertising executive Michael Di Girolamo in December 2023. [5] [6] [7]

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  2. ↑ "In what episode of Zoey 101 was Craig Robert Young in?". Answers.com . Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  3. ↑ Nichols, David C. (23 May 2008). "Witch hunt in darker days". Los Angeles Times . p. E16.
  4. ↑ "The Bishop Revival Cast List". TV.com . CBS Interactive Inc. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
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  6. ↑ "90s Pop Star Reveals: 'No-One Ever Knew I Was Gay'". Attitude . Stream Publishing. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
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