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Jason Patric Biography
Birth Name:
Jason Patric Miller
Birth Place:
Queens, New York, United States
Profession
Actor
Fast Facts
- 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 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
Relationships
- Jordan Miller -- Brother
- Danielle Schreiber -- Ex-significant Other
- Joshua Miller -- Half Brother
- Linda Gleason Miller -- Mother
- Jennifer Miller -- Sister