DOB: 10/4/1967
Where: San Francisco, California
Height: 6'3''
Trademarks
-Thin build yet towering height
-Known for playing tough guys with an unpredictable personality and a temper
-Known for playing upper-class figures who could be considered sinister
Trivia
-Was raised in the Lower East Side in New York
-He attended the London Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1992 and graduated from the Yale School of Drama
-His last name translates from the German word for "writer"
-He has German, Swiss, Dutch, Danish, English, French, Norwegian, Belgian (Flemish), Scottish and Welsh ancestry from his father's side while he has Ashkenazi Jewish (Polish and Russian) from his mother's side
-Growing up, his mother didn't allow him to watch color movies. The first movie in color he saw was Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
-Hugh Jackman and Dustin Hoffman are good friends
-Expressed an interest in pursuing the role of District Attorney Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, but lost out to Aaron Eckhart
-He appeared in two films with Hugh Jackman: 2001's Kate & Leopold and 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Filmography
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| Mixed Nuts (1994) Chris |
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| The Daytrippers (1996) Carl Petrovic |
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| Ransom (1996) Clark Barnes |
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| Scream (1996) Cotton Weary |
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| His and Hers (1997) Glenn |
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| Phantoms (1998) Deputy Stuart "Stu" Wargle |
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| Twilight (1998) Jeff Willis |
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| A Walk on the Moon (1999) Marty Kantrowitz |
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| Kate & Leopold (2001) Stuart Bessler |
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| The Sum of All Fears (2002) John Clark |
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| The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Raymond Shaw |
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| The Omen (2006) Robert Thorn |
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| The Painted Veil (2006) Charlie Townshend |
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Michael Keppler |
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| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Victor Creed |
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| Taking Woodstock (2009) Vilma |
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| Repo Men (2010) Frank |
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| Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) Lyndon B. Johnson |
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