Ian Stuart Whyte (born 17 September 1971) is a Welsh actor, stuntman and former professional basketball player. He is best known for his roles as Predators in the ''Alien vs. Predator'' film series, Sheikh Suleiman in the 2010 remake of '' Clash of the Titans'', The Last Engineer in ''

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'', as well as various characters in the HBO fantasy series ''

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''.

Career

Raised in

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

, Whyte began his career as a professional basketball player with clubs in several countries, including

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association footbal ...

where he was a Portuguese champion in 1996–97, and culminating in a six-year spell with the

Newcastle Eagles The Newcastle Eagles are a professional basketball club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. They play in Super League Basketball, the top-tier professional basketball league in Britain for men and women, and the European North Basketball Leag ...

. He also collected 80 caps for the England national team. After his retirement from basketball in 2003 he began his second career as a stuntman and actor. Whyte is best known for portraying

Predators Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

in the movies '' Alien vs. Predator'' and '' Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'', in particular

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in the latter. In 2010, Whyte played Sheikh Sulieman in '' Clash of the Titans''. Whyte portrayed one of the "Engineer" aliens seen in

Ridley Scott Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. He directs films in the Science fiction film, science fiction, Crime film, crime, and historical drama, historical epic genres, with an atmospheric and highly co ...

's 2012 science fiction film, ''

''. He has portrayed various characters requiring a physically tall actor in the

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series ''

'', including

White Walker White Walkers are humanoid creatures from the HBO television series ''Game of Thrones'', and the George R. R. Martin novel series ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' on which it is based. Primarily referred to as the Others in the novels, White Walkers are ...

s in season 1 and season 2 and a giant in the opening episode of season 3. For these roles he was unrecognisable under make-up and computer effects. In season 2, he also had a speaking role as

Gregor Clegane Gregor Clegane, nicknamed "The Mountain That Rides" or simply "The Mountain", is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation ''Game of Th ...

. In season 5 and season 6, Whyte portrayed the giant Wun Wun. He later played a giant wight in episode 3 of Season 8.

Personal life

Whyte was born in

Bangor, Gwynedd Bangor (; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and Community (Wales), community in Gwynedd, north Wales. It is the oldest city in Wales. Historic counties of Wales, Historically part of Caernarfonshire, the community had a ...

, Wales. He is tall. Whyte is married and has one son.

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Career

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