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John Michael Higgins
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February 12, 1963
Boston, MA
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Big Miracle
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Feb. 3, 2012
We Bought a Zoo
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Dec. 23, 2011
Bad Teacher
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Couples Retreat
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The Ugly Truth
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A military brat who moved myriad times while growing up, this boyishly handsome player began acting in regional theater as a child and continued to pursue an entertainment career after graduating college. Although he....
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A military brat who moved myriad times while growing up, this boyishly handsome player began acting in regional theater as a child and continued to pursue an entertainment career after graduating college. Although he has played a striking number of gay roles — a flamboyant dog owner in
Best in Show
, real-life tennis star Bill Tilden in the off-Broadway play
Big Bill
, a Catholic priest dying of AIDS in a controversial episode of
Nothing Sacred
that never aired on network TV — Higgins is a straight actor who masterfully embodies over-the-top characters of all orientations. His breakthrough role came in 1996, when he did a fine (if at times grotesque) impression of David Letterman in the TV-movie
The Late Shift
. While the real late-night talk-show host despised Higgins' work, it got the actor noticed and he quickly became a perennial small-screen guest star, usually playing characters that were bitchy, uptight or both. His uproarious turn in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary
Best in Show
jump-started his film career, and he subsequently appeared in supporting roles in both blockbusters (
Blade: Trinity
) and indies (Guest's
A Mighty Wind
).
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