Christian Camargo

Christian Camargo
Biographical information
Birth name	Christian Minnick
Born	July 7, 1971 (1971-07-07)
Nationality	Mexican-American
Gender	Male
Eye color	Hazel
Hair color	Dark brown
Height	6'1"
Family	Victoria Wyndham (Mother) Ralph Camargo (Grandfather)
Career
In Twilight saga	Eleazar
Notable roles	Brian Moser - Dexter

Christian Camargo is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as the Ice Truck Killer aka Brian Moser (alias: Rudy Cooper) in the show Dexter. He plays Eleazar in the Breaking Dawn films.

Biography

Camargo was born Christian Minnick in New York City, New York, the son of former soap opera actress Victoria Wyndham and grandson of actor Ralph Camargo. He is a 1992 graduate of Hobart College. He was the Program Director of WEOS The Colleges' public radio station. Camargo is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama (Group 25) and went on to perform in the Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight with Michael Gambon (Theater World Award). From there, Camargo went to England to join the inaugural company of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the Southbank. He met his future wife, English actress Juliet Rylance, there.

Career

Camargo's New York theater work includes the Public Theater's Kit Marlowe, Steve Martin's Underpants at Classic Stage Company, and Theater For A New Audience's Coriolanus. In 2008 Camargo played opposite Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow and Katie Holmes in Arthur Miller's All My Sons on Broadway.

In early 2009 Camargo played the title role in the Theatre for a New Audience's production of Hamlet and garnered good reviews. The show ran until April 12, 2009.

Camargo portrayed the role of Orlando in The Bridge Project's presentation of Shakespeare's As You Like It in Brooklyn, New York. Since February 2010, he is playing Ariel in the company's rendition of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

As of September 30th, 2010, he has been cast as Eleazar of the Denali coven in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2.

Other

He has also been the face of Fast Ashley's, a custom car company that specialized in customizing vintage and muscle cars for celebrities, models and millionaires. The MTV reality show Fast Inc. follows the behind the scenes dealings of Fast Ashley's. His role in National Treasure: Book of Secrets was John Wilkes Booth.

Filmography

Films

• Story of a Bad Boy (1999)
• Harlem Aria (1999)
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
• Picture This (1999)
• Double Bang (2001)
• Lip Service (2001)
• For the People (2002)
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
• Welcome to California (2005)
• Henry May Long (2006)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006)
• The Cry (2006)
• Find Love (2006)
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
• The Hurt Locker (2009)
• Happy Tears (2009)
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
• Europa (2013) [post-production]
• Channeling (2013) [filming]

Television

• The Guiding Light (1998)
• Presidio Med (2002)
• CSI (2003)
• Boomtown (2003)
• Without a Trace (2003)
• Karen Sisco (2004)
• Wanted (2005)
• Ghost Whisperer (2005)
• Dexter (2006-2007, 2011)
• The Cleaner (2008)
• Law & Order (2009)
• Numb3rs (2009)
• Medium (2011)
• The Mentalist (2011)
• The Good Wife (2012)

Trivia

His favorite part of Breaking Dawn is the Volturi confrontation.

External links

• Christian Camargo on Wikipedia