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Frank Whaley: Biography

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Birth Place: Syracuse, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 07/20/1963, Cancer
Profession: Actor; director; screenwriter

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Frank Whaley Fast Facts:

Founded the band the Niagras with his brother, Robert.
Began his film career in 1987 as the younger version of Jack Nicholson's character in Ironweed.
Played a tourist lured into the Russian underworld in 1992's Back in the U.S.S.R., the first U.S. film ever to be shot entirely in Moscow.
At the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, he won a Walto Salt Screenwriting Award for his film Joe the King, an autobiographical drama about growing up in a poor and troubled upstate New York household during the '70s.

Frank Whaley Relationships:
Robert W. Whaley - Father
Josephine Whaley - Mother
Robert Whaley - Brother
Heather Bucha - Wife
Buster Williams Whaley - Son
Tallulah Josephine Whaley - Daughter
Frank Whaley Awards:
1999 Sundance Film Festival: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Winner
College:
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY (BA in Theater, 1985)

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Alcatraz, Frank Whaley, Jorge Garcia Liane Hentscher/FOX

Alcatraz, Sarah Jones, Frank Whaley Liane Hentscher/FOX

Ugly Betty, Frank Whaley David Giesbrecht/ABC

House, Frank Whaley, Hugh Laurie Chris Haston/FOX

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