Zane Holtz is a Canadian film and television actor, known for his roles in such films as “Treasure”, “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief”, “Vampire Sucker”, “It's Good to Be Quiet”, “Seven Minutes”, etc. The article presents a brief biography and the most popular projects of his filmography.
Zane Holtz: personal life and a brief biography
Zane was born in 1987 in Vancouver, a city on the west coast of Canada. At the age of five, he began working as a model, and five years later he starred in his first commercial. In 1999, he moved to Los Angeles with his mother, actress Laura Mary Clark, and three brothers. There he decided to abandon the modeling business in favor of an acting career, for which he first entered the Film Institute, and then graduated from the Lee Strasberg Film and Theater Institute. The actor is married to Chelsea T. Pagnini, they together raise a daughter, London-Yves Pagnini.
Fair Percy Jackson
Zayn Holtz's career began in 2001, when he got a cameo in the second season of the crime drama Anthony E. Zuicker, CSI: The Crime Scene. A year later, he was offered a role in CBS’s multi-part legal drama Just Amy. He played Louis, nicknamed the Barf Bag, in Andrew Davis' adventure treasure, based on the novel of the same name by American writer Louis Sachar. And six years later he received episodic roles in Glen Mazzar's multi-part drama "Clash" and the police drama Meredith Style "Detective Rush."
In 2010, Zane got a small role in Chris Columbus’s science fiction film “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief,” based on a series of books by Rick Riordan. In the same year, playing the role of Alex, he took part in the filming of the vampire sucker, a comedy film by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Zeltser, which is a parody of the Twilight series of films. And for 18 episodes he played the role of Austin Tucker in the teenage drama Holly Sorensen "Gymnasts."
Seven minutes in a drawer
In 2012, Zane Holtz played Chris Kelmekis, the elder brother of the protagonist, in the drama Steven Chbosky's “It's Good to Be Quiet”. And he became part of the cast that won the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards. Then in the role of a guy named Nick appeared in the crime drama Jace Alexander Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, in the center of the plot of which is the trial of the case of Jody Arias, accused of the murder of former lover Travis Alexander. In the same year, starred in the musical drama Brad Silverman's “Grace Acoustic”, which tells of a young girl who, instead of becoming a church singer, as her father told her, went in search of fame in Hollywood. Also played the role of Owen - one of three friends who decided on a difficult robbery, which from the first minutes went wrong, in Jay Martin’s crime thriller “Seven Minutes”.
In 2015, Zane Holtz appeared in the image of Luke Stevens, a military man suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, in Danny Bedey’s drama “Back to Another Man”. In the same year, he received the leading role in the thriller Derik Martini “The Curse of Downers Grove”, based on the work of Michael Hornburg “Downers Grove”. And in 2015, he starred in Russell Friedenberg’s horror film Cold. A year later, he played Cameron Hooker - one of the abductors of 20-year-old Colleen Stan in Stephen Kemp’s crime drama “The Girl in the Box”. And for 30 episodes, he played the role of the rapist, psychopath and dangerous criminal, Richie Gekko in the mystical drama of Robert Rodriguez "From Dusk Till Dawn."
What to expect?
In the next two years, the premiere of several more films with Zayn Holtz. Already in 2018, the release of the thriller Donovan Marsh "Hunter-killer" and the mystical drama Jason Noto Beyond the Night is planned. The production of the television drama Manu Boyer and Kim Raver Tempting Fate, which is scheduled to be shown in 2019, is also ending.