Jason Patric

Maternal grandfather is show-biz legend Jackie Gleason; father Jason Miller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ( That Championship Season ) and Oscar-nominated actor ( The Exorcist ). His first industry job was as a production assistant on his father's film adaptation of  That Championship Season . Playing an undercover narcotics officer who gets hooked in 1991's Rush, he insisted on injecting actual saline-filled syringes into his arm to simulate heroin use.   Copped a high-profile role as… Show more Sandra Bullock's replacement love interest in Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997). Made his Broadway debut playing Brick in the 2003 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Turned down the lead roles in The Firm and The Passion of the Christ. In 2011, appeared in a Broadway revival of his father's  That Championship Season, the story of a reunion of high-school basketball players. ~ Rovi

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