Eric Roberts
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Eric Anthony Roberts (born on April 18, 1956, in Biloxi, Mississippi) is an American film actor. He was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, attended Grady High School, and is the brother of actress Julia Roberts.
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[edit] Awards
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as the escaped convict Buck in the film Runaway Train.
[edit] Roles
His other starring roles include Star 80 (1983), The Raggedy Man, The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Best of the Best (1989), The Specialist (1994), The Immortals (1995) and The Cable Guy (1996). In 1996 he appeared in the Doctor Who television movie in the role of the Master. He also appears in the 2000 film Race Against Time as a father who sells his organs to pay for hospital treatment for his son and the 2002 film Spun as "The Man" alongside Mickey Rourke and Jason Schwartzmann. He also performed the voice of Dark Danny in Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom.
Roberts recently starred in Royal Kill a psychological thriller which also stars Pat Morita, Lalaine, Gail Kim and is directed by Babar Ahmed.
Roberts appeared as a panelist on the television game show Hollywood Squares.
Most recently, Roberts has co-starred on the ABC sitcom Less Than Perfect. His daughter Emma has joined her father and aunt in the acting business. Recently, she gained a starring role on the Nickelodeon series Unfabulous and starred in the film Aquamarine
In 2006, he appeared in the film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.
He also appeared in The Killers' music video of the song Mr. Brightside as well as in the music videos for Mariah Carey's We Belong Together and It's Like That . In 2006, he returned to music videos when he appeared in Akon's Smack That featuring Eminem.
He had a role in the crime show CSI: Miami as Ken Kramer, a killer sent to jail with a death penalty. He is in jail as Horatio Caine (David Caruso) tries to solve a crime of a couple who was murdered, in which Ken Kramer was a primary suspect, even though in prison. In the end, it was Ken Kramer's cousin who murdered them, goaded into the murders by his cousin, in an attempt to prove to his cousin just how tough he can be. As Caine finds the proof he needs, Kramer kills himslf in prison by eating a peanut butter sandwich as his last meal. He is allergic to peanuts and uses that as a way to cheat the system out of putting him to death, thereby retaining control of his own destiny.
[edit] Satire/spoofs
An episode of the satiric cartoon South Park featured Roberts as a star in a re-enactment of America's Most Wanted. He played the genetically engineered half-man, half-monkey sidekick of the character Mephisto. During the re-enactment's taping, a snowstorm forced a group of characters to resort to cannibalism. Roberts was the first casualty because, as the Mayor of South Park put it, "No one gives a shit about Eric Roberts."
He was also immortalized in an episode of Seinfeld; After giving away the ending of the film, Kramer tells George that Roberts' performance as the husband in the film The Other Side of Darkness was "unforgettable."
He was portrayed as a clay figure on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch where he fought alongside his sister, Julia Roberts, against Donny and Marie Osmond.
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