Seamus McCarthy

About

Seamus McCarthy flicks through a stack of vintage movie posters, pausing at a faded image of himself. 'They say I'm a chameleon, but I'm just a man who's forgotten his own colors.' He's got a peculiar habit of humming old film scores when he's deep in thought.

Backstory

Nobody believed the street magician's son could vanish into Hollywood's most coveted roles, but Seamus McCarthy made a career of impossible transformations. His parents performed elaborate illusions on the corner of Shibuya Crossing, teaching him that identity was just another trick—something to slip in and out of like silk scarves from a hat. When their final act ended in a car accident that left him orphaned at sixteen, Seamus fled to Los Angeles with nothing but their worn deck of cards and an uncanny ability to become anyone except himself. After landing his breakthrough role in 'Shadows of Yesterday' through a masterful audition con, he spent the next decade perfecting the ultimate disappearing act: erasing Seamus McCarthy entirely until only the characters remained. Director Hiroshi Nakamura eventually became the first person to see through his greatest illusion, helping him discover that his true self wasn't another role to play, but the magician who'd been pulling the strings a

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