He jumped to primetime in 1996 as a detective on Profiler and then in 2000 as a bad-boy demon on Charmed. Steady work on an Australian serial followed, and he segued that success into a brief stint on the NBC soap Another World.

The son of a former Australian prime minister, McMahon initially studied law in college but then he put his penetrating blue eyes and chiseled chin to work as a model and was quickly in-demand throughout Europe. Nip/Tuck led to feature film roles as Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four and its inevitable sequel, and as Sandra Bullock's Julian McMahon has lived a most charmed life.

But while relationships soured, McMahon's career soared. A bit of a lothario in real life, his marriages to singer Dannii Minogue and Baywatch beauty Brooke Burns both ended in divorce, and his relationship with Charmed costar Shannon Doherty fizzled. But his role as immoral plastic surgeon Christian Troy on Nip/Tuck is what landed him in celebrity magazines and ignited his career.

Biography: Julian McMahon has lived a most charmed life.

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