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Nathan Fillion

Nathan Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian-American actor. He played the leading roles of Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds on Firefly and its film continuation Serenity and Richard Castle on Castle. As of 2018, he stars as John Nolan on The Rookie and is an executive producer on the show as well as its spin-off series, The Rookie: Feds. Fillion has acted in traditionally distributed films like Slither and Trucker, Internet-distributed films like Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, television soap operas, sitcoms, and theatre. His voice is featured in animation and video games, such as the Bungiegames Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Destiny, and Destiny 2, along with the 343 Industries game Halo 5: Guardians and the television series M.O.D.O.K. (2021). Fillion first gained recognition for his work on One Life to Live in the contract role of Joey Buchanan, for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series, as well as for his supporting role as Johnny Donnelly in the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nathan Fillion, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025
Superman

as Guy Gardner

Movie
2017
Cars 3

as Sterling (voice)

Movie
2013
Monsters University

as Johnny (voice)

Movie
2005
Serenity

as Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds

Movie
2021
The Suicide Squad

as T.D.K.

Movie
2018
The Rookie

as John Nolan

TV Show
2021
Resident Alien

as 42 (voice)

TV Show
2002
Firefly

as Mal Reynolds

TV Show
2009
Modern Family

as Rainer Shine

TV Show
2009
Castle

as Richard Castle

TV Show