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Birth Name: Julian M. Richings
Place of Birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 30 August, 1956
Ethnicity: English
Julian Richings is an English-Canadian actor. His roles include the films The Boys Club (1996), Cube (1997), The Red Violin , Urban Legend , Detroit Rock City , Treed Murray , Wrong Turn , Open Range , My Life Without Me , Being Julia , Elegy , Toronto Stories , Survival of the Dead , Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Man of Steel , The Colony (2013), The VVitch (2015), A Christmas Horror Story , Vicious Fun , Chaos Walking , Stanleyville , Charlotte (2021), Beau Is Afraid , A Thousand Cuts , and It Feeds ; and the shows War of the Worlds , Ready or Not , Once a Thief , I Was a Sixth Grade Alien , Amazon , A Nero Wolfe Mystery , Kingdom Hospital , Todd and the Book of Pure Evil , Supernatural , Transporter: The Series , Orphan Black , Patriot , 12 Monkeys , Creeped Out , Doom Patrol , The Umbrella Academy , and The Institute .
He was born in Oxford, and moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1984. He is married, and has two children.
Julian’s maternal grandfather was Frederick Adams (the son of John Adams and Mary Jane Wakefield). Frederick was born in Headington, Oxfordshire, England. John was the son of Samuel Levi Adams and Ann Horn. Mary Jane was the daughter of Jesse Wakefield and Emma Goldswain.
Julian’s maternal grandmother was Edith Beasley Baughan (the daughter of Robert Joseph Baughan and Florence Miriam Allen). Edith was born in Holywell, Huntingdonshire, England. Robert was the son of Henry Baughan and Rebecca Cook. Florence was the daughter of William Allen and Harriett Beesley.