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Actor Will Patton successfully divides his time between mainstream and independent features, television films, and a stage career on and off-Broadway. Born and raised in North Carolina, the son of a Lutheran minister, Patton learned his craft at the North Carolina School of the Arts and at New York's Actor's Studio where he studied under Lee Strasberg. In addition, Patton studied at the Open Theater under Joseph Chaikin before making it to the New York stage. Patton has won two Obie Awards for Tourists and Refugees No. 2 and for Sam Shepard's Fool for Love. Patton also has had experience working at London's Royal Court Theatre. Upon his return to New York, Patton joined the experimental Winter Project troupe. During the 1970s, Patton performed in two soap operas, Search for Tomorrow and Ryan's Hope. Patton first appeared on film in the short underground film Minus Zero(1979). During the early '80s, Patton appeared in such New York-based independent films as Michael Oblowitz's King Blank and Variety (both 1983). After playing a small but important villainous role in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Patton was cast in his first big-budget film, Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), where he played a brutish boyfriend with a thing for leather and chains. His best portrayal of a villain can be found in the Gene Hackman-starring thriller No Way Out (1987).
Will Patton Filmography
Actor
• The Last Ride (2004)
• The Punisher (2004)
• Bruckheimer Collection - 3 Pack (2003)
• The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
• Remember the Titans (2000)
• Trixie (2000)
• Jesus' Son (2000)
• Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
• Breakfast of Champions (1999)
• I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1999)
• Entrapment (1999)
• Armageddon (1998)
• All Revved Up (1997)
• The Postman (1997)
• This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
• Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
• The Spitfire Grill (1996)
• Fled (1996)
• Tollbooth (1996)
• Copycat (1995)
• Judicial Consent (1994)
• The Puppet Masters (1994)
• The Client (1994)
• Midnight Edition (1993)
• Natural Causes (1993)
• The Paint Job (1993)
• In the Deep Woods (1992)
• In the Soup (1992)
• Cold Heaven (1992)
• Deadly Desire (1991)
• Dillinger (1991)
• Murder on the Bayou (1991)
• The Rapture (1991)
• A Shock to the System (1990)
• Everybody Wins (1990)
• Wildfire (1988)
• Stars & Bars (1988)
• No Way Out (1987)
• Variety (1985)
• After Hours (1985)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
• Chinese Boxes (1984)
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