Editing Xander Berkeley

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|born = Alexander Harper Berkeley<br>{{d|December|16|1955}}<br>Brooklyn, New York, USA
|role = 1. [[George Mason]]<br>2. [[Vanessa Diaz's handler|The Handler]]
|spouse = [[Sarah Clarke]]}}

:''" I’d been reluctant to do a TV series for a long time, just as I’d been reluctant to get married and I ended up doing both with this show and it’s turned out to be a fabulous surprise."''
:<small>&mdash; [http://www.24spoilers.com/2002/12/17/xander-berkeley-sci-fi-online-interview/ Xander Berkeley on his ''24'' role in 2002]</small>

'''Xander Berkeley''' {{born|December|16|1955}} played [[Counter Terrorist Unit|CTU]] Agent [[George Mason]] on ''[[24]]'' and voiced [[Vanessa Diaz's handler|The Handler]] in the ''[[24: Solitary|Solitary]]'' short.  He is married to [[Sarah Clarke]], who played [[Nina Myers]] on the show and they have had one child.

== Biography and career ==

Xander Berkeley was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 16, 1955, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey. He attended Hampshire College and worked in the theaters at the five college system which Hampshire was a part of, including Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts. Berkeley worked in the Regional and Repertory Theaters in addition to Off Broadway while living in New York. A casting agent saw Berkeley in a play written by Reynolds Price called ''Early Dark'', and encouraged him to move to Hollywood.

Berkeley began playing minor roles in 1981, with early appearances in ''M*A*S*H'', ''Cagney & Lacey'', ''Remington Steele'', ''Miami Vice'', ''Moonlighting'' and ''The A-Team''. Although not becoming a household name, Berkeley's face was increasingly recognizable into the 1990s. His later television guest roles included ''The X-Files'', ''CSI'', ''ER'', ''Criminal Minds'', ''Standoff'' (with [[Gina Torres]]), ''The Mentalist'' and ''Law & Order''. 

On the big screen, Berkeley appeared in ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (with [[Jenette Goldstein]]), ''A Few Good Men'' (with [[Kiefer Sutherland]]), ''The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag'' (with [[Michael O'Neill]]), ''The Killing Jar'' (with [[Carlos Bernard]] and [[Tamlyn Tomita]], and art director [[Rob Kyker]]), ''Candyman'' (with [[Tony Todd]]), ''Heat'' (with [[Dennis Haysbert]]), ''Magma: Volcanic Disaster'' (with [[Reiko Aylesworth]]), ''Apollo 13'' (with [[Ned Vaughn]]), ''If These Walls Could Talk'' (with [[Harris Yulin]]), ''A Kidnapping in the Family'' (with [[Laura Harris]]), ''Leaving Las Vegas'', ''Gattaca'', ''Air Force One'' (with [[Glenn Morshower]], [[Timothy Carhart]], [[Wendy Crewson]], [[Jurgen Prochnow]], [[Don McManus]], [[Spencer Garrett]], [[Tom Everett]] and [[David Gianopoulos]]), ''Amistad'', ''Shanghai Noon'', ''Timecode'', ''Seraphim Falls'', ''Faster'', ''Kick-Ass'' and ''Taken''. He has starred in numerous acclaimed indie films and shorts.

He also appeared in the 2007 film ''Fracture'', which featured fellow ''24'' actors [[Billy Burke]], [[Bob Gunton]], [[Gonzalo Menendez]], [[Michael Khmurov]], [[Yorgo Constantine]], and [[Alla Korot]]. Despite having had few leading roles, he has appeared in more than 80 motion pictures. Most of his roles have been unsympathetic characters, morally flawed ones similar to 24's [[George Mason|Mason]] or background supporting roles.

Since the 90s, he has also done voiceover work for animated series such as ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'', ''Gargoyles'' and various superhero cartoon shows.

Berkeley also starred in a Hulu online series called ''The Booth at the End'' as the man sitting in the title location. He won the Streamy Award for Best Male Dramatic Performance. His wife Sarah Clarke also co-starred. He is also the main villain Percy on the hit spy series ''Nikita''; both shows co-star his real-life spouse once again.

In 2014, Xander co-starred in [[Joel Surnow]]'s film ''Small Time'' as well as the acclaimed indie crime thriller ''This Last Lonely Place'' (with [[Rhys Coiro]] and [[Carly Pope]]).

Berkeley is also a skilled make-up artist and designed his own make-up when his character on the show was suffering from radiation poisoning in the second season.

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=== ''24''-related appearances ===
* Berkeley provided [[DVD]] [[audio commentary]] for the episode "[[Day 2: 10:00pm-11:00pm]]" (with [[Robert Cochran]]).

* In an interview with the UK version of SciFi Wire Magazine, he explained his reluctance to accept his offered role due to being constantly typecast as a prick-like character but accepted it due to the role being fleshed out and the promise that Season 2 would showcase a different side to this character's arc.

== See also ==
* [[Performers with multiple roles]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.xanderberkeley.net/ Official website]
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