Based on his strong performances in such fare as "After Dark, My Sweet" (1990) and "Rush" (1991), Jason Patric has been hailed as "the best young actor in American movies" (by David Denby in NEW YORK). Nevertheless, this darkly handsome, intense player remains a relatively unknown quantity. Preferring to downplay his showbiz lineage and eschewing personal details in favor of discussions about his work in interviews, Patric can seem smug or prickly. But he also possesses a directness and intelligence that inform his screen portrayals.

Born Jason Patric Miller in Queens, he is the middle child of actor-playwright Jason Miller and actress Linda G Miller (whose father was comic legend Jackie Gleason). After his parents' divorce, he and his siblings were raised in NYC and Bergen County, NJ. At age 16, Patric moved to California and with his younger brother Jordan earned credit as production assistants on the film version of Jason Miller's award-winning play "That Championship Season" (1982). Opting for an acting career, he dropped his surname and landed his first role as the troubled son of Bruce Dern and Lee Remick in the ABC movie "Toughlove" (1985).

Over the course of his career, Patric has been quite selective in his roles, generally down-playing his good looks and unconcerned over both box-office appeal and career effect. He debuted as a roller-skating hunk in the unsuccessful sci-fi flick "Solarbabies" (1986) but scored with his sophomore effort as a disaffected teen drawn into a cult of vampires in "The Lost Boys" (1987). The underrated "The Beast" (1988) afforded him the unusual role of a pacifist Russian soldier in Afghanistan who eventually joins the Afghan rebels. Patric's back-to-back turns as a punch-drunk boxer caught up in a kidnapping scheme in "After Dark, My Sweet" and a heroin-addicted narcotics cop in "Rush" firmly established his credentials as an intense and serious actor. For this intensely private player, the 1991 tabloid frenzy sparked by his romantic involvement with Julia Roberts on the heels of her well-publicized break-up with Kiefer Sutherland was undoubtedly painful. Patric seemingly retreated from view until 1993 when he co-starred in "Geronimo: An American Legend" playing an officer escorting the title character to a meeting with a US general. After another period drama, "The Journey of August King" (1995), in which he played a widower who helps a runaway slave, Patric returned to contemporary times, offering one of his best screen performances as a misogynistic bachelor in Neil LaBute's black comedy "Your Friends and Neighbors" (1998).

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  The Good Shepherd (2006) (post-production)
Walker (2005) (post-production)

The Alamo (2004) .... James Bowie
Noin (2003) .... Jason Patric
Narc (2002) .... Nick Tellis
... aka Narco (Canada: French title)
3 Days of Rain (2002)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (2001) .... Ray

Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) .... Cary
Incognito (1997) .... Harry Donovan
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) .... Officer Alex Shaw
Sleepers (1996) .... Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra
The Journey of August King (1995) .... August King
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) .... 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood
Rush (1991) .... Jim Raynor
Frankenstein Unbound (1990) .... Lord George Gordon Byron
... aka Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) .... Kevin 'kid' Collins
Denial (1990) .... Michael
... aka Loon
Teach 109 (1990) (TV) .... Teach 109

The Beast of War (1988) .... Koverchenko
... aka The Beast (USA: video box title)
The Lost Boys (1987) .... Michael Emerson
Solarbabies (1986) .... Jason
... aka Solar Warriors
Toughlove (1985) (TV) .... Gary Charters