Jason Patric (born June 17, 1966) is an Irish-American actor who has appeared in such films as The Lost Boys and The Alamo.
Jason Patric was born John Anthony Miller, Jr., in Queens, New York in 1966. He is the son of the late [[Queens-born, Scranton, Pennsylvania-reared actor/Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller and Linda Gleason (the daughter of actor/comedian Jackie Gleason). Jason's half-brother is the actor Joshua John Miller.
Jason attended Don Bosco Preparatory School, a prestigious all-boys Salesian Roman Catholic school in New Jersey.
He next attended St. Monica Roman Catholic High School (also attended by Danny Moder, Julia Roberts' current husband) in Santa Monica, California, where he performed in school productions of Dracula and Grease.
Soon after graduating from high school, he was cast in the television drama Toughlove, and later in Brooksfilms Ltd's Solarbabies (alongside Jami Gertz and Lukas Haas).
When his then-best friend Kiefer Sutherland's engagement to Julia Roberts collapsed in the early '90s, Julia ran off to Europe with Patric. He dated model Christy Turlington in the late '90s.
Patric turned down the lead role in The Firm (1993), and the part went instead to Tom Cruise; he also turned down the role of Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004), which went to Jim Caviezel.
In 2005 Patric appeared on Broadway as "Brick", in a revival of the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Ashley Judd, Ned Beatty and Margo Martindale.
Selected filmography
- Solarbabies (1986)
- The Lost Boys (1987)
- The Beast (1988)
- Rush (1991)
- Sleepers (1996)
- Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
- Incognito (1997)
- Your Friends and Neighbors (1998)
- Narc (2002)
- The Alamo (2004), as James Bowie
External links
- Jason Patric at IMDb
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