Pruitt Taylor Vince

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Biography: Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor. He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The Mentalist (2008–2015). Vince has also appeared on many television series. In 1997, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One. Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, 1960. He attended Louisiana State University. For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus, the involuntary movement of the eye. Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out. He had prominent supporting roles in several major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988), Lee Bowers in JFK (1991), and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool (1994). His first lead role was in James Mangold's independent film Heavy (1995), playing a sweet, silent, overweight cook harbouring a crush on a waitress played by Liv Tyler. He starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's film The Legend of 1900 (1998). Vince often alternates between heroic and villainous characters. Vince played a Southern policeman in the neo-noir psychological horror film Angel Heart (1987), a kidnapper's assistant in the crime thriller film Trapped (2002), and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). He played a lovable, small-town pub owner in Beautiful Girls (1996); a mentally ill serial killer in the 2003 mystery thriller film Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold); a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty (2000); a gossip columnist in Simone (2002); and a dissolute Roman Catholic priest with psychic abilities in the 2005 supernatural horror film Constantine. He can also be seen in the dramatic film Love from Ground Zero (1998), playing as Walter. Other film titles include the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder (1990), the neo-noir film China Moon (1994), the action thriller film Homefront (2013), and the supernatural horror film The Devil's Candy (2015). Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, In the Heat of the Night, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil. In 2011, he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. He also had a guest role playing a 600-lb. patient in Fox's medical drama House. From 2010 to 2014, he had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist. In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified. He took a comic role as "Jelly" in Flypaper. In 2018, he appeared on an episode of The Blacklist as Lawrence Devlin. Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pruitt Taylor Vince, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Birthday: July 05, 1960

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ASIA A
ASIA A

2018-07-31

Constantine
Constantine

2005-02-08

Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning

1988-12-08

JFK
JFK

1991-12-20

Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder

1990-11-02

K-9
K-9

1989-04-28

The Legend of 1900
The Legend of 1900

1998-10-28

Identity
Identity

2003-04-25

Barfly
Barfly

1987-09-02

Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool

1994-12-23

When a Man Falls
When a Man Falls

2007-02-12

Mumford
Mumford

1999-09-24

Heavy
Heavy

1995-12-29

Trapped
Trapped

2002-09-20

Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

2009-09-13

Don McKay
Don McKay

2009-04-24

Captivity
Captivity

2007-03-01

In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist

2009-04-15

The Smell of Success
The Smell of Success

2011-08-19

Flypaper
Flypaper

2011-08-19

Bending The Rules
Bending The Rules

2012-03-09

The End of Violence
The End of Violence

1997-09-12

Homer and Eddie
Homer and Eddie

1989-08-17

Shy People
Shy People

1987-05-14

Fear
Fear

1990-07-15

On the Inside
On the Inside

2011-12-31

Butter
Butter

2012-10-05

13 Sins
13 Sins

2014-04-11

The Grief Tourist
The Grief Tourist

2013-08-23

Under the Hula Moon
Under the Hula Moon

1995-12-01

Till Death Us Do Part
Till Death Us Do Part

1992-02-18

Love from Ground Zero
Love from Ground Zero

1998-09-30

Drop Dead Sexy
Drop Dead Sexy

2005-03-12

Brake
Brake

2012-03-22

The Cell
The Cell

2000-08-17

Creature
Creature

2011-09-09

Red Heat
Red Heat

1988-06-17

Drive Angry
Drive Angry

2011-02-24

Angel Heart
Angel Heart

1987-03-06

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

1994-06-10

Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures

2013-02-13

The Devil's Candy
The Devil's Candy

2016-12-15

Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart

1990-08-17

Dead in the Water
Dead in the Water

1991-12-04

Beautiful Girls
Beautiful Girls

1996-02-09

Superman
Superman

2025-07-09

Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers

1994-08-26

A Further Gesture
A Further Gesture

1997-01-01

Cold Around the Heart
Cold Around the Heart

1997-11-07

13 Moons
13 Moons

2002-08-30

Nurse Betty
Nurse Betty

2000-08-30

S1m0ne
S1m0ne

2002-08-23

Gotti
Gotti

2018-06-14

Nobody Wants Your Film
Nobody Wants Your Film

2005-05-06

L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential

2003-09-01

Monster
Monster

2003-12-24

59 Seconds
59 Seconds

2018-02-27

Mysterious Island
Mysterious Island

2010-11-03

Homefront
Homefront

2013-11-12

Bird Box
Bird Box

2018-12-13

China Moon
China Moon

1994-03-04

Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle

1998-06-26

The Echo
The Echo

2008-05-25

The Cottonwood
The Cottonwood

1996-01-01

Come See the Paradise
Come See the Paradise

1990-08-17

Crime Story
Crime Story

2021-08-13

Sweet Poison
Sweet Poison

1991-06-13