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Birthday: 5 November 1968Below
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Biography
Sam Rockwell was born Nov. 5, 1968, in Daly City, Califonia. His
mother and father were both actors at this time. The family moved
to New York when Sam was two years old, living first in the Bronx
and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents
split up, at which point he and his father moved to San Francisco
where he subsequently grew up, while summers and other times were
spent with his mother in New York. Sam made his debut acting when
he was 10 years old alongside his mother and later attended J. E.
McAteer High School within a program called SOTA. While still in
high school, Sam got his first big break when he appeared in the
Francis Ford Coppola made for TV film _Clownhouse (1988)_ (qv). The
plot revolved around 3 escaped mental patients dressing up as
clowns and terrorizing 3 brothers home alone; Sam played the eldest
of the brothers. The next big break was supposed to come in 1989
when Sam was slated to star in a short lived NBC tv-series called
"Dream Street", but was soon after fired. After graduation Sam
returned to NYC for good, and for two years he had private training
at the William Esper acting studio. He appeared in a variety of
roles, such as the ABC after school special _Over the Limit (1990)
(TV)_ (qv), HBO's _Dead Drunk (1992)_ (qv) (playing an alcoholic in
both), the head thug in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
movie and guest starring in an Emmy winning episode of "Law &
Order", while working a string of regular dayjobs and perfoming in
plays. In 1994, a Miller Ice beer commercial finally enabled him to
quit his various day jobs to concentrate on his acting career which
culminated in him having 5 movies out by 1996, _Basquiat (1996)_
(qv), _Search for One-eye Jimmy, The (1996)_ (qv), _Glory Daze
(1996)_ (qv), _Mercy (1996)_ (qv) and _Box of Moon Light (1996)_
(qv), and it was _Box of Moon Light (1996)_ (qv) that would prove
to be Sam's real break-out movie in the film industry. In 'Tom
DiCillo' (qv)'s film, Sam found himself playing a peculiar
backwoodsman called The Kid, a manchild living in a half-built
mobile home in the middle of nowhere with a penchant for dressing
like Davy Crockett, who manages to bring some much-needed chaos
into the life of an electrical engineer played by 'John Turturro'
(qv). The movie was not a box office success, but managed to
generate a lot of critical acclaim for itself and Sam, and in 1997
he found himself the star of another critical hit film, _Lawn Dogs
(1997)_ (qv). Once again Sam portrays a societal outcast in the
form of Trent, a working class man living in a trailer, earning a
living mowing lawns inside a wealthy gated Kentucky community. Soon
Trent finds himself befriended by 10 year old Devon ('Mischa
Barton' (qv)), and the movie deals with the difficulties in their
friendship and the outside world. Sam also made strong perfomances
in the quirky, independent comedy _Safe Men (1998)_ (qv), in which
he plays one half of a pretty awful singing duo (the other half
played by 'Steve Zahn' (qv)) which gets mistaken for two
safe-crackers by the jewish mafia, and the offbeat hitman trainee
in _Jerry and Tom (1998)_ (qv) against 'Joe Mantegna' (qv). A few
smaller appearances in Woody Allen's _Celebrity (1998)_ (qv) and
the 1999 movie version of _Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1999)_ (qv)
(in which he played Flute) later, Sam found himself with large
parts in two of the bigger hit movies to emerge late last year -
_Green Mile, The (1999)_ (qv) and _Galaxy Quest (1999)_ (qv),
wowing audiences and critics alike with his chameleon perfomances
as a crazed killer in the former and a goofy actor in the latter.
After well over 10 years in the business, Sam has well earned his
success.
Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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