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3 | John Hawkes (born September 11, 1959 in Alexandria, Minnesota) is an American actor and musician, best known for years for his role as the Jewish merchant Sol Star in ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', before making a big break with his performance as the sinister Teardrop in ''Film/WintersBone'', which has led to him gaining a robust career as a character actor, mostly in indie movies, but also in Hollywood productions and TV. |
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5 | He's most often cast as backwoods, redneck types, though he's played other roles, too, often in the indie pictures that have made him something of a staple at the Sundance Film Festival. |
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8 | !!His Notable Roles: |
9 | * ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' - Pete Bottoms |
10 | * ''Film/ThePerfectStorm'' - Mike "Bugsy" Moran |
11 | * ''Film/MeAndYouAndEveryoneWeKnow'' - Richard Swersey |
12 | * ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'' - Sol Star |
13 | * ''Film/AmericanGangster'' - Freddie Spearman |
14 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'' - Lennon |
15 | * ''Film/WintersBone'' - Teardrop |
16 | * ''Series/EastboundAndDown'' - Dustin Powers |
17 | * ''Film/MarthaMarcyMayMarlene'' - Patrick |
18 | * ''Film/Contagion2011'' - Roger |
19 | * ''Film/TheSessions'' - Mark O'Brien |
20 | * ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' - Robert Latham |
21 | * ''Film/{{Everest|2015}}'' - Doug Hansen |
22 | * ''Film/ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri'' - Charlie Hayes |
23 | * ''Film/ThePeanutButterFalcon'' - Duncan |
24 | * ''WesternAnimation/HitMonkey'' - Eli |
25 | * ''Series/TrueDetective'': Det. Hank Prior |
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28 | !!This actor provides examples of: |
29 | * AlmostFamousName: Shares a name with a {{Postmodern|ism}} novelist who wrote in the latter half of the twentieth century. |
30 | * AwardSnub: His failure to get a Best Actor nomination for ''Film/TheSessions'' is generally seen as this. |
31 | * TheCastShowoff: He contributed a song to the ''Film/WintersBone'' soundtrack and also sang a cover of "Marcy's Song" in ''Film/MarthaMarcyMayMarlene''. |
32 | * CelebrityResemblance: To Creator/HarryDeanStanton. |
33 | * ChronicallyKilledActor: He once had to say that he doesn't die in every movie he appears in |
34 | * DoingItForTheArt: After his Oscar-nominated breakout performance in ''Winter's Bone'', he looked through all the scripts he'd been offered and decided to pick the two movies with the lowest budgets. Those became ''Film/MarthaMarcyMayMarlene'' and ''Film/TheSessions''. As he puts it, he has a "very understanding agent". |
35 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He usually looks a few years younger than his actual age. During ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'', he was about a decade older than both Timothy Olyphant and Paula Malcolmson but didn't look noticeably older. Similarly, he was close to sixty when he made ''Film/ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri'' but looked closer to mid or late forties. |
36 | * PlayingAgainstType: In ''The Sessions'', he plays a paraplegic poet, a far cry from the grizzled backwoods types he's best known for. Also notable in that it is one of the few lead roles he's ever played. |
37 | * WhatMightHaveBeen: He was offered the role of The Governor on ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', but turned it down due to misgivings about playing a role on broadcast TV. |
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