James Remar

Born: December 31 1953
Where: Boston, Massachussetts, USA

During a career of more than 20 years, Remar has specialised in off-kilter often psycophathic roles in movies including The Cotton Club, 48 Hours and What Lies Beneath.

He made his debut in 1978 in On The Yard but first attracted attention as a punk who gets chained to a park bench by a woman cop in his second film The Warriors.

That same year he won acclaim on Broadway as Richard Gere's lover in the concentration camp drama Bent.

He want on to play tough guy Dutch Schultz in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club and an experienced military officer who doubts the power of Shakespeare in Renaissance Man.

However, he is still probably best known for playing the homicidal escaped prisoner in 48 Hours and the no nonsensee cop Gentry in Drugstore Cowboy in 1989.

Subsequent appearances have included the comedy drama Boys on the Side, Walter Hill's Wild Bill and Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho.

Remar has also concentrated on TV work including appearances in Hill Street Blues, The X Files and the role of Richard Wright in Sex and the City.

He played Warren Feur in What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford and a maverick cop in Fear X as well as an cop in 2 Fast 2 Furious.