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Anthony Carrigan is a Massachusetts-born actor best known for his roles as Victor Zsasz in the series Gotham on Fox and Kyle Davies in The Forgotten on ABC. He has also appeared on the Flash, the Blacklist, and Parenthood. He was diagnosed at age three with the auto-immune disease alopecia areata, which causes baldness. He gradually lost all of his body hair, leaving him completely bald by age 30. Carrigan has become an advocate for both body positivity and human rights.
Interesting Facts about Anthony Carrigan
- Has played two different DC comics villains on two TV series, Kyle Nimbus/The Mist on ‘The Flash (2014)’ and Victor Zsasz on ‘Gotham (2014)’.
- He has Irish, English, one quarter Portuguese Azorean, and more distant Polish and Welsh, ancestry. His father was born in England.
- He suffers from a type of alopecia that worsened as he got older and lost most of his hair by his 20s. He eventually stopped trying to cover it up and began shaving his head.
Personal Quotes by Anthony Carrigan
Even when I was in my 20s, very few of my friends even knew that I had alopecia. I kept it under wraps. I didn’t want to let anyone know, and I didn’t want it to affect my career or the possibility of me getting hired for a job.
Anthony Carrigan
I have alopecia. That’s an autoimmune condition. I don’t like to say disease because I don’t feel like I’m diseased. So it’s a condition. And it’s like your immune system is confused. So it attacks the hair follicles, and so your hair falls out.
Anthony Carrigan
New York is such a super power, New York can do anything, you know what I mean? They could do anything! When New Yorkers band together, they can really change the world.
Anthony Carrigan
I loved all the wardrobe choices that were made on ‘Gotham.’ I feel like I always looked fantastic, very streamlined.
Anthony Carrigan
I think bald guys have been notoriously cast as villains throughout history.
Anthony Carrigan
