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RECENT CREDITS

The Amateurs (FILM) Dec. 7, 2007

American Gangster (FILM) Nov. 2, 2007

Wristcutters: A Love Story (FILM) Oct. 19, 2007

Miami Vice (FILM) Jul. 28, 2006

Me and You and Everyone We Know (FILM) Jun. 17, 2005

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BIOGRAPHY

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Prolific character actor John Hawkes earned a new level of recognition with his role as Bugsy, the slow-witted fisherman who provides Wolfgang Petersen's The Perfect Storm (2000) with a degree of comic relief. Hailing from Austin, TX, Hawkes, who bears a vague resemblance to Tom Selleck, began his career as an actor and musician. After relocating to Los Angeles, where he moved to do further stage work, the actor wrote and performed Nimrod Soul, a one-man show staged at the Theatre at the Improv. He subsequently found work on television and broke into film in the late '80s. In addition to doing supporting turns in a large variety of films, including Flesh and Bone (1993), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), Hawkes also did guest work on such long-running TV shows as E.R. and The X-Files. In 1999, he was cast in one of his first leading roles in A Slipping-Down Life, a well-received big screen adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel of the same name that also starred Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce. With his casting the following year in The Perfect Storm, a summer smash that featured him acting alongside the likes of George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and John C. Reilly, it seemed that Hawkes' career was entering a new and possibly more lucrative phase.

~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

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Danny McBride as Kenny Powers on HBO's 'Eastbound and Down'

TV Review: 'Eastbound & Down'

Feb. 13, 2009

With Major League Baseball in desperate need of a tension breaker and Danny McBride poised for stardom -- or at the very least a high-ranking position in the Judd Apatow/Will Ferrell Comedy Troupe -- the timing for HBO’s Eastbound & Down (premiering Sunday at 10:30/9:30c) couldn’t be better.

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