Jason Patric

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Roger Ebert, Peter O'Toole, and Jason Patric at the 2004 Savannah Film Festival.

Jason Patric (born June 17, 1966) is an Irish-American film, television and stage actor best known for his roles in such films as The Lost Boys and The Alamo, as James Bowie.

Jason Patric was born Jason Patric Miller, Jr., in Queens, New York, in 1966. He is the son of the Academy Award-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller, and Linda Gleason (daughter of actor/comedian Jackie Gleason). Jason's half-brother is the actor Joshua John Miller.

Jason attended Don Bosco Preparatory High School, an all-boys Salesian Roman Catholic school in New Jersey, and Saint Monica Catholic High School (also attended by Julia Roberts' husband Danny Moder) in Santa Monica, California. He appeared in high school productions of Dracula and Grease.

After graduation, 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, Roberts ran off to Ireland with Patric. [1]

He dated model Christy Turlington in the late '90s.

Despite having lead roles in such films as After Dark, My Sweet, Geronimo: An American Legend and Speed 2, he is not regarded as a major film star.

All of his scenes in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line were cut before the film's release. He also appeared in the infamous Alec Baldwin film The Devil and Daniel Webster, which was shot in 2001, but has never been released, leading to much speculation about the film.

He 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. He earned rave reviews for his performance as an undercover narcotics officer in 2002's Narc.

In 2004, Patric was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Austin, Texas and was involved in a physical confrontation with the arresting officer. Patric claimed the charges were false and that the officer assaulted him. The prosecuting attorney's office later dropped the charges, which included assault on a police officer. He subsequently sued the arresting officer for violating his civil rights, but the officer was acquitted by a federal jury. [2]

In 2005, Patric appeared on Broadway as "Brick", in a revival of the Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Ashley Judd, Ned Beatty and Margo Martindale. Both he and Judd, received lukewarm reviews, while stage veterans Beatty and Martindale received much acclaim and, in Martindale's case, a Tony Award nomination. [3]