John Hawkes Biography
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, Rovi
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