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CHARLIE MANX
Zachary Quinto
An intelligent and seductive immortal, who claims to rescue children from bad or neglectful parents, Manx lures his victims into his special car with promises of Christmas every day. He feeds on their souls as he whisks them off to Christmasland – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx’s imagination where unhappiness is against the law. Manx finds his whole world threatened when Vic discovers she has a dangerous gift.
Zachary Quinto was born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where he began performing as a teenager. He attended Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and received a BFA in Acting. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and began to build a career in television with guest starring roles on numerous series, including “CSI” and “Six Feet Under.” He appeared as Adam Kaufman on the third season of “24” and in the only season of the critically acclaimed series “So NoTORIous.”
In 2007 he was cast as the psychopathic super-powered serial killer Sylar on the hit NBC series “Heroes” and in the same year was cast as Spock in the JJ Abrams directed reboot of the Star Trek franchise. Subsequently he has reprised his role of Spock in both sequels to that film: 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness and 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. He played Chad Warwick on the first season
of “American Horror Story” and won a Critic’s Choice Award and Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Dr. Oliver Thredson on “American Horror Story: Asylum.”
In 2008, Quinto began his production company Before the Door Pictures and produced and starred in Margin Call alongside Stanley Tucci and Jeremy Irons. His company has gone on to produce such films as All Is Lost, Banshee Chapter, Breakup At a Wedding, A Most Violent Year, and the upcoming film Aardvark in which Quinto also stars alongside Jenny Slate and Jon Hamm. That film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Currently, Quinto is filming the unscripted series,
“In Search Of” which will premiere on the History Channel. He hosts and executive produces the show which, inspired by the iconic 1970s series of the same name, examines unexplained phenomena from all over the world.
In theatre, Quinto appeared as Louis Ironson in the 2010 Signature revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, for which he won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination. He made his Broadway debut to universal praise in the 2013 Tony Award winning production of the Glass Menagerie; and appeared in the 2017 MCC production of Noah Haidle’s Smokefall. Last year, he starred in the Joe Mantello directed revival of The Boys in the Band, alongside Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells at The Booth Theater, running from May 31st through August 11th.
Quinto appears in Steven Soderbergh’s Netflix film,
High Flying Bird, which follows a sports agent, played by André Holland, who pitches a rookie basketball client on an intriguing and controversial business opportunity during a lockout. Over the last few years, Quinto has starred opposite James Franco in I Am Michael in 2015, and as journalist Glenn Greenwald in Oliver Stone’s film Snowden in 2016. In 2017, he starred opposite Julianne Nicholson and Emma Roberts in Who We Are Now, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
He also appeared in Drew Pearce’s Hotel Artemis opposite Jodie Foster, Jenny Slate and Jeff Goldblum. Global Road Films released the film.
Quinto currently resides in New York.
The supernatural horror series “NOS4A2,” based on Joe Hill’s bestselling 2013 novel of the same name, tells the story of Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children and then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law.
But Manx finds his whole world threatened when Vic McQueen, a young woman in New England, discovers she has a dangerous supernatural ability. Vic sets out to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.
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‘NOS4A2’ is a supernatural horror series based on Joe Hill’s bestselling 2013 novel of the same name, tells the story of Charlie Manx (portrayed by Zachary Quinto), a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children and then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law.
But Manx finds his whole world threatened when Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), a young woman in New England, discovers she has a dangerous supernatural ability. Vic sets out to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.
‘NOS4A2’ has technically aired on TV in the UK on the AMC Global channel.
The series is produced by AMC Studios in association with Tornante Television.
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ITV Press Centre
