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John Hawkes

 
Actor: John Hawkes
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  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Crime
  • Career Highlights: The Perfect Storm, A Slipping-Down Life, Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • First Major Screen Credit: A Slipping-Down Life (1999)

Biography

Prolific character actor John Hawkes earned a new level of recognition with his role as Bugsy, the slow-witted fisherman who provides Wolfgang Petersen's The Perfect Storm (2000) with a degree of comic relief. Hailing from Austin, TX, Hawkes, who bears a vague resemblance to Tom Selleck, began his career as an actor and musician. After relocating to Los Angeles, where he moved to do further stage work, the actor wrote and performed Nimrod Soul, a one-man show staged at the Theatre at the Improv. He subsequently found work on television and broke into film in the late '80s. In addition to doing supporting turns in a large variety of films, including Flesh and Bone (1993), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), Hawkes also did guest work on such long-running TV shows as E.R. and The X-Files. In 1999, he was cast in one of his first leading roles in A Slipping-Down Life, a well-received big screen adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel of the same name that also starred Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce. With his casting the following year in The Perfect Storm, a summer smash that featured him acting alongside the likes of George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and John C. Reilly, it seemed that Hawkes' career was entering a new and possibly more lucrative phase. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
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John Hawkes
Born John Marvin Perkins
September 11, 1959 (1959-09-11) (age 50)
Alexandria, Minnesota

John Hawkes (born September 11, 1959) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his portrayal of Bugsy in The Perfect Storm and as the Jewish merchant Sol Star on the HBO series Deadwood. He played the role of Greg Penticoff in season 1 of 24. He currently portrays the brother Dustin of the protagonist, Kenny Powers, in the HBO series Eastbound & Down.

Other films include Me and You and Everyone We Know, and Wristcutters: A Love Story. Hawkes is an executive producer of The 1 Second Film, the largest collaborative film ever made.

Hawkes was born John Marvin Perkins in Alexandria, Minnesota,[1] the son of Patricia and Peter Perkins. Aside from acting, he is also a member of the musical group King Straggler with fellow actors Rodney Eastman and Brent Gore.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ John Hawkes (actor) at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Gina DiNunno (21 August 2009). "Deadwood Alum Joins Lost". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Deadwood-Alum-Joins-1009122.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 

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