Kevin Corrigan Biography
Born: March 27, 1969
One of the most prolific and reliably excellent actors on the independent film circuit, Kevin Corrigan has made a name for himself portraying a painfully memorable array of geeks, stoners, and generally pathetic losers. Consistently good at playing bad, he has elevated the expression of basic freakishness into something of an underrated art form.
A native of the Bronx, where he was born March 27, 1969, Corrigan first became interested in acting as a teenager. At the age of 17, his play +The Boiler Room was produced by the Young Playwrights Festival of New York. The 1990s got off to a promising start for Corrigan with a supporting role as Ray_Liotta's brother in Martin_Scorsese's critically acclaimed Goodfellas (1990). More gangster action followed the next year with a part in Billy_Bathgate, but Corrigan then took a turn toward smaller features with Zebrahead, a 1992 film that opened to generally positive reviews but little box-office action. After supporting roles in The Saint of Fort Washington and True_Romance (both 1993), Corrigan had a substantial part in director Matthew_Harrison's Rhythm_Thief, a black-and-white drama that won Harrison a directing award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. The film marked the beginning of Corrigan's immersion in the growing and increasingly lucrative world of independent film, with supporting roles in Tom DiCillo's acclaimed Living in Oblivion (1995), in which the actor provided laughs as a dimbulb cameraman, and Trees_Lounge (1996), the directorial debut of Corrigan's Oblivion co-star Steve_Buscemi. The same year, Corrigan had substantial roles in the well-received independent comedy Walking and Talking, in which he had a memorable turn as a nebbishy video clerk who sleeps with Catherine_Keener, and Illtown, a crime drama in which he starred with Lili_Taylor and Zebrahead co-star Michael_Rapaport.
Following a turn as a stoner guitarist in the obscure Bandwagon (1996) and a supporting role in Hal_Hartley's 1997 film Henry_Fool, Corrigan co-wrote and starred in the comedy Kicked in the Head, his second collaboration with Rhythm_Thief director Harrison. The film had the distinction of being executive produced by Martin_Scorsese, who had signed on after being favorably impressed by Rhythm_Thief. The film was also notable for the fact that the misadventures of Corrigan's character -- a guy who gets kicked out of his apartment and dumped by his girlfriend -- were based on events in the actor's own life. He would later remark that the film was a form of therapy and followed it up with what was essentially a form of therapy for another director, Tamara_Jenkins' The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998). Playing a Manson Family-obsessed stoner, Corrigan made a repugnantly vivid impression in the widely acclaimed film and the same year made a similar impression with his role as Vincent_Gallo's best friend in Buffalo_'66. After a small part in Paul_Auster's Lulu on the Bridge (which premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival), Corrigan worked on two more independents, the romantic drama Roberta, which premiered at the 1999 Sundance Festival and featured Corrigan in a lead role as a shy computer expert, and Coming_Soon, which opened at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in April of the same year. Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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