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John Hensley For the similarly-named actor who plays Holden Snyder on the daytime drama As the World Turns, see Jon Hensley.

John Carter Hensley (born August 29, 1977) is an actor known for his role he plays on Nip/Tuck as Matt McNamara.
 Actor, Nip/Tuck, FX, Tuesdays

After letting a mentally ill bud take the fall for the hit-and-run he committed, circumcising himself, and falling for a transgender transgender or transgendered
adj.
Transsexual.
 life coach (Famke Janssen), word has it John Hensley's Nip/Tuck character, Matt McNamara Matt McNamara, played by John Hensley, is a fictional character on the television show Nip/Tuck. Character history
Matt was raised as the son of Julia and Sean McNamara, although his biological father is Christian Troy, a man he regards as an uncle.
, is headed where the boys are. And like many questioning young bucks, he isn't ready to talk about it. "I'm not saying [it's] man on man or man on girl, I'm not saying it's even man on she-male," he teases. "I'm just saying that he explores."

Which is something Hensley feels is spot-on for his character, who returns for season 3 of FX's bangin' plastic-surgery soap opera soap opera

Broadcast serial drama, characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, tangled interpersonal situations, and a melodramatic or sentimental style.
 still broken up over his MIA MIA  
n.
A member of the armed services who is reported missing following a combat mission and whose status as to injury, capture, or death is unknown.



[m(issing) i(n) a(ction).
 ex who used to be a man, baby. "Just by terms of the fact that ... the love of his life is suddenly not there, I really think it seems natural, though misguided at moments. He has to embark on a bit of exploration."

But be warned, folks: On a show where gang bangs and the gropings of Julian McMahon's bare ass are de rigueur, what Matt finds is sure to be far from normal. "Absolutely," agrees Hensley. "Even things that are arguably irredeemable ... and I think that it's really wonderful that the show is willing to potentially put one of their main characters in such a place without softening the edges around it."
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Title Annotation:ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: TELEVISION; John Hensley
Author:Holbrook, Damian
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 27, 2005
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