Julian McMahon, the suave Australian actor finest recognized for his performances on “FBI: Most Wished,” “Charmed,” “Nip/Tuck” and the early aughts “Implausible 4” movies, died Wednesday in Florida. He was 56 and died after a battle with most cancers.

His dying was confirmed via the official “Nip/Tuck” Fb web page. The remembrance put up learn, “Warner Bros. Tv mourns the lack of our pal Julian McMahon. Our ideas are together with his household, associates, colleagues, and followers.”

“What surprising information,” Dick Wolf, producer of “FBI: Most Wished,” mentioned in a press release. “All of us at Wolf Leisure are deeply saddened by Julian’s passing and our condolences exit to his complete household.”

McMahon obtained his begin on a string of Australian TV soaps, together with “The Energy, the Ardour” and “Dwelling and Away.” He made his movie debut enjoying a lifeguard within the 1992 comedy “Moist and Wild Summer time,” co-starring with Elliott Gould and Christopher Atkins.

Certainly one of McMahon’s first American TV jobs was a 22-episode arc on the NBC cleaning soap opera “One other World.” He then landed a recurring function on one other NBC program, “Profiler,” earlier than breaking out as Cole Turner on “Charmed.” He starred in three seasons of the supernatural teen drama.

McMahon’s first main main function in tv was on Ryan Murphy’s campy cosmetic surgery sequence “Nip/Tuck,” which ran for six seasons on FX. He starred as Dr. Christian Troy, a womanizing and smug surgeon, who labored with Dylan Walsh’s extra milquetoast Dr. Sean McNamara. He earned a Golden Globe nomination for the function in 2005.

Years after the FX sequence, McMahon’s subsequent main TV function was on “FBI: Most Wished,” the place he performed Jesse LaCroix, a supervisory particular agent who mentored youthful members of his group. He joined the sequence in 2020 and starred in 43 episodes earlier than exiting in 2022.

McMahon’s different TV credit embody “Full Circle,” “Hunters,” “Runaways” and “The Residence.”

McMahon’s best-known movie function was enjoying the villainous Physician Doom in Tim Story’s 2005 “Implausible 4” and its 2007 sequel “Rise of the Silver Surfer.” His different movie credit embody “Crimson,” “Faces within the Crowd,” “Paranoia,” “Swinging Safari,” “Monster Celebration,” “The Surfer” and “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat.”

McMahon, born in Sydney, Australia on July 27, 1968, was the son of Billy McMahon, the Australian Prime Minister from 1971 to 1972.