Muse Watson

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Muse Watson
Born	July 20, 1948 (age 58) Alexandria, Louisiana

Muse Watson (born July 20, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana) is an American actor.

Watson was born in Alexandria, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana Tech on a music stipend for two years before transferring to Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, where he performed for the first time on stage as Petruchio in a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. During and after his years at Berea, he worked in outdoor dramas, dinner theaters, and small repertory groups.

His theater credits include Hamlet in Hamlet, Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, Pale in Burn This, Cervantes in Man of La Mancha, and directed Ain't Misbehavin'.

In 1989, with a new commitment to film, Muse began pursuing roles in feature film.

By 2005, he had appeared in 43 feature films such as Sommersby, Something To Talk About, Assassins, Rosewood, I Know What You Did Last Summer, From Dusk Til Dawn II, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Songcatcher.

Seven of the films Muse has appeared in have together grossed over 850 million dollars by 2005. Muse has also appeared on television. Eight made for television movies including Blind Vengeance and Justice in a Small Town; and seven television series, American Gothic, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Matlock, Lazarus Man, JAG, Walker, Texas Ranger, and a former regular cast member on Fox's Prison Break. Muse also gave a performance with Jennifer Love Hewitt as a special guest on Saturday Night Live. In 2005 he appeared as guest star in NCIS