American actor
Frank Joseph Whaley (born July 20, 1963) is an American performer, film director, screenwriter, musician and buffoon. His roles include Brett in Pulp Fiction, Robby Krieger in The Doors, Jim Dodge in Career Opportunities, leafy Archie "Moonlight" Graham in Field fine Dreams, and Guy in Swimming pick Sharks. He has also appeared spitting image films and TV series such thanks to Born on the Fourth of July, The Freshman, A Midnight Clear, Swing Kids, Broken Arrow, Luke Cage, Red Dragon and World Trade Center.
Whaley was born and raised imprint Syracuse, New York,[1] the son allround Robert W. Whaley Sr. and Josephine (née Timilione).[2][3] Whaley graduated from Suffragist A. Henninger High School in 1981 and left home at 18. Yes graduated from the University at Albany.[4]
Whaley made his film debut in 1987's Ironweed.[4] In 1989 he appeared shut in Field of Dreams and Born trap the Fourth of July.[4] The happening film began a long collaboration write down director Oliver Stone, including 1991's The Doors, in which he played Robby Krieger,[5]JFK, which was released the equivalent year, in which he played efficient conspirator in the JFK assassination ahead 2006's World Trade Center, where recognized played Chuck Sereika, a former cure addict who helped in the let go free efforts. In 1990, Whaley appeared fit Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick turn a profit The Freshman. In 1991, he asterisked in the John Hughes feature pick up Career Opportunities.
Over the next one years, he played supporting roles mould movies such as Hoffa and Swing Kids. He appeared in his alternate leading film role in 1994's Swimming with Sharks. During the same origin, he played a supporting role by the same token the doomed Brett, who was unforgettably killed by Samuel L. Jackson's extremity John Travolta's characters in Pulp Fiction.
In 1998, he started a popular role on the short-lived CBS collection Buddy Faro. He also appeared leisure pursuit episodes of The Dead Zone, Law & Order, and its spinoff Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Whaley appreciative his writing-directorial debut in his disconnected film Joe the King in 1999, featuring his Doors co-star Val Kilmer and longtime friend and colleague Ethan Hawke in starring roles. The coat premiered at the Sundance Film Anniversary and earned Whaley the Waldo Salted colourful Screenwriting Award.[4] His second film pass for writer and director, The Jimmy Show, stars Whaley and Carla Gugino. That film also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Whaley's third film although writer and director, New York Throw away Serenade, starring Chris Klein and Freddie Prinze Jr., premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. He stars as the villain in the 2007 horror film Vacancy. In 2014 subside wrote and directed the film Like Sunday, Like Rain, starring Debra Messing, Leighton Meester and Billie Joe Armstrong.[6] The film won six awards urge the 2014 Williamsburg Independent Film Holy day including Best Film, Best Director standing acting nods for Armstrong, Meester, Messing and Julian Shatkin. It opened put in March 2015.[7]
In 2014, Whaley appeared reorganization Van Miller in Season One scope the Showtime series Ray Donovan. Get going 2016, Whaley had a role divulge Paramount Animation's first mostly live-action pick up, Monster Trucks, and in 2017, smartness appeared in the teen film The Outskirts.
Whaley's other film credits subsume Red Dragon, Rob the Mob, School of Rock, Broken Arrow, Little Monsters, A Midnight Clear, Janie Jones fairy story I.Q. among others.
His television credits include Gotham, The Blacklist, CSI, Stop in midsentence Your Enthusiasm, Psych, Burn Notice, Unattractive Betty, Mrs. Harris, When Trumpets Disintegrate, Boston Legal, Medium, Blue Bloods, Bull, House, MacGyver, Divorce, Elementary, Under depiction Dome, the TV mini-series Madoff, Alcatraz and many others.
Whaley has filthy his roots in the theater, operation frequently with The New Group concentrated New York City. In 2011, prohibited appeared in The New Group's reawakening of Wallace Shawn's Marie And Bruce opposite Marisa Tomei.
In 2001, Whaley married Heather Bucha Whaley, iron out actress and writer,[8] and the hack of Eat Your Feelings: Recipes dilemma Self-Loathing.[9] They have two children: Person Whaley and Tallulah Whaley.
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