Born: March 07, 1946

A veteran of Chicago's free-form Organic Theatre, the boyish, personable John Heard won the Theatre World Award for his performance in the 1976 play Streamers, and two years later was the recipient of the Obie Award for two separate off-Broadway productions. He made his film bow as the harried correspondent for an underground newspaper in Joan_Micklin_Silver's Between the Lines. In Silver's 1979 Head_Over_Heels, Heard again received top billing, this time as the obsessive ex-lover of Mary_Beth_Hurt. One of his first "mainstream" leading roles was in Paul_Schrader's erotic thriller Cat_People (1981). Heard was agreeable, if a little bullheaded, as Macaulay_Culkin's dad in the two Home_Alone films; less agreeable was his portrayal of Tom_Hanks' abrasive business rival in Big (1988) On television, Heard was seen as the tormented Reverend Dimmesdale opposite Meg_Foster's Hester Prynne in the PBS production of The Scarlet Letter, and was heard as one of the celebrity voices on the made-for-cable Dear_America:_Letters_Home_From_Vietnam (1987). John Heard was at one time married to actress Margot_Kidder. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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