Pruitt Taylor Vince

Pruitt Taylor Vince is an American character actor who has made many appearances in film and television.

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American - Character actor

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Vince got his start in an unusual fashion, when a simple computer error in his high school registration, landed him in an acting class, a subject which Vince has never left.

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His film debut was in Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law, but found itself on the cutting room floor. But film roles lead to prominent supporting roles including a turn as a dimwitted KKK member in Mississippi Burning. Vince also had a big role in Nobody's Fool as the co-worker and best friend of Paul Newman's character. He had his first lead in James Mangold's independent film Heavy, which highlighted Vince's strengths as an actor who can convey a simple emotion with his eyes, playing a sweet, silent cook harboring a crush on a waitress (Liv Tyler).

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Jim Jarmusch - Down By Law - Mississippi Burning - Nobody's Fool - Paul Newman - James Mangold - Heavy - Liv Tyler

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Vince often alternates roles of both good and bad, like a lovable small town pub owner in Beautiful Girls, aschizophrenic serial killer with multiple personalities in Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold) and a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty.

Related Topics:
Beautiful Girls - Schizophrenic - Serial killer - Multiple personalities - Identity - Sheriff - Nurse Betty

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Divorced from his first marriage, he remarried in 2003 to Julianne Mattelig.

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