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RANDY QUAID

Biography

Randy Quaid’s multiple honors include: Oscar nominee, Golden Globe Award winner, Glitter Award winner and three-time Golden Globe Award, Bafta Award, Independent Spirit Award and SAG Award nominee. He is one of the most explosively interesting and diverse stars in the entertainment industry today. From roles as famous dominant Southern men to European aristocracy, equally talented in extremes of comedy and serious drama, he is simply one of those unexplainable talents that is a force to watch on screen.

His memorable performance in Hal Ashby's “The Last Detail” earned him Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award nominations when he was 21. “The Missouri Breaks,” “The Long Riders” and “Brokeback Mountain” are Quaid's work in the American Western; “The Ice Harvest,” directed by Harold Ramos made the official UK Top 10 Best Film Gangster of all time. Quaid's previous collaboration with the director was on the original comedy “Vacation.” Peter Bodganovich discovered him for the Academy Award-winning “The Last Picture Show” (by screenwriter Larry McMurty). Quaid's other films include “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz”; Arthur Penn's “The Missouri Breaks”; Hal Ashby's Academy Award-winning “Bound for Glory”; Alan Parker's “Midnight Express” is one of the great singing/strange energy’s performances given by Quaid; Walter Hill's “The Long Riders”; Robert Altman's “Fool for Love” (by Sam Shepard); Bob Balaban's “Parents” (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination); Tony Scott's “Days of Thunder”; Bill Murray's Quick Change; Ron Howard's “The Paper”; Roland Emmerich's “Independence Day”; indie film “Milwaukee Minnesota” and Peter and Bobby Farrelly's comedy classic “Kingpin” as Ishmael the 16-year-old Amish farm boy.

Important television credits include: Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson in “LBJ: The Early Years”; Quaid starred in “Gun”, for director Robert Altman; and the miniseries “Streets of Laredo” (written by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana). Nominated most recently for a Golden Globe Award for playing Colonel Tom Parker in “Elvis” as John Rhyes Meyers controlling manager and svengalie in which the New York Times called his performance, “Riveting.”

His stage performances include starring in works by Sam Shepard, among them, “True West” and the political comedy “God of Hell”. And Shakespeare in the Parks the Golem as the Golem. This year he starred in Milos Forman's “Goya's Ghosts”, as the resoundingly well reviewed King Carlos IV of Spain. Quaid stars in “Real Time” for 2008.