Acting

Dean Norris

Born April 8, 1963 · South Bend, Indiana, USA (age 63)

Dean Joseph Norris (born April 8, 1963) is an American actor, best known for portraying DEA agent Hank Schrader on the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–2022), as well as town selectman James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome (2013–2015). He has also appeared in films such as Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2: Judgme…

Known For

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day · 1991

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

MovieActionThriller

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Total Recall

Total Recall · 1990

MovieActionAdventure

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers · 1997

Starship Troopers

MovieAdventureAction

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."

Gattaca

Gattaca · 1997

MovieScience FictionDrama

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

The Counselor

The Counselor · 2013

MovieThrillerCrime

A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch · 1990

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

MovieComedyHorror

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 2 · 1989

Lethal Weapon 2

MovieActionThriller

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Evan Almighty

Evan Almighty · 2007

MovieFantasyComedy

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day · 1991

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

MovieActionThriller

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

SWAT Team Leader

Total Recall

Total Recall · 1990

MovieActionAdventure

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

Tony

Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers · 1997

Starship Troopers

MovieAdventureAction

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."

Commanding Officer

Gattaca

Gattaca · 1997

MovieScience FictionDrama

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

Cop on the Beat

The Counselor

The Counselor · 2013

MovieThrillerCrime

A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

Buyer

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch · 1990

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

MovieComedyHorror

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

SWAT Team Leader

Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 2 · 1989

Lethal Weapon 2

MovieActionThriller

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Tim Cavanaugh

Evan Almighty

Evan Almighty · 2007

MovieFantasyComedy

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

Officer Collins

The Hustle

The Hustle · 2019

MovieComedyCrime

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

Howard Bacon

Carry-On

Carry-On · 2024

MovieThrillerAction

An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

Phil Sarkowski

The Firm

The Firm · 1993

MovieDramaMystery

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

The Squat Man

The Negotiator

The Negotiator · 1998

MovieActionCrime

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

Scott

The Six Triple Eight

The Six Triple Eight · 2024

The Six Triple Eight

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

General Halt

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine · 2006

Little Miss Sunshine

MovieComedyDrama

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

State Trooper McCleary

Death Wish

Death Wish · 2018

MovieActionCrime

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Detective Rains

The Cell

The Cell · 2000

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

Cole

The One

The One · 2001

MovieActionScience Fiction

A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.

Sgt. Siegel

Secret in Their Eyes

Secret in Their Eyes · 2015

Secret in Their Eyes

MovieThrillerMystery

A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

Bumpy

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark · 2019

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

MovieHorrorMystery

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Roy Nicholls

The Frozen Ground

The Frozen Ground · 2013

The Frozen Ground

MovieThrillerCrime

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

Sgt. Lyle Haugsven

The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid · 2007

The Heartbreak Kid

MovieComedyRomance

Eddie, the 40-year-old confirmed bachelor finally says "I do" to the beautiful and sexy Lila. But during their honeymoon in Mexico, the woman of his dreams turns out to be a total nightmare, and the guy who could never pull the trigger realizes he’s jumped the gun.

Jodi's Father

Money Train

Money Train · 1995

MovieActionComedy

When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

Guard with Dooley

Men, Women & Children

Men, Women & Children · 2014

Men, Women & Children

MovieDramaComedy

Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.

Kent Mooney

Border Hunters

Border Hunters · 2025

MovieActionThriller

After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge

Abraham

The Mentalist

The Mentalist · 2008

SeriesCrimeDrama

Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.

Sgt. Don Henderson

Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy · 2005

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

Vince

NCIS

SeriesCrimeDrama

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.

Vestman

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation · 2000

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

SeriesCrimeDrama

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

Bob Durham

American Dad!

American Dad! · 2005

SeriesAnimationComedy

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

Head of Security (voice)

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad · 2008

SeriesDramaCrime

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Hank Schrader

Bones

SeriesCrimeDrama

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Don Timmons

Married... with Children

Married... with Children · 1987

Married... with Children

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

Rodent

Castle

SeriesDramaCrime

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

John Davis

The West Wing

The West Wing · 1999

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

Steve Hodder

The X-Files

The X-Files · 1993

SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Marshal Tapia

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

General Bowden

Lost

SeriesMysteryAction & Adventure

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

Howard Gray

Charmed

Charmed · 1998

SeriesComedyDrama

Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.

Dr. Stone

Scandal

Scandal · 2012

Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

Fenton Glackland

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul · 2015

Better Call Saul

SeriesCrimeDrama

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

Hank Schrader

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 2000

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Judge Whittaker

Cold Case

Cold Case · 2003

SeriesCrimeDrama

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Wayne Nelson (1994 & 2006)

Boston Legal

Boston Legal · 2004

SeriesComedyDrama

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

Byron Kaneb

Ghosts

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear.

Frank

Nip/Tuck

Nip/Tuck · 2003

Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.

Mark Noble

Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan · 2001

Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Liam Moore

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Clark

Without a Trace

Without a Trace · 2002

Without a Trace

SeriesCrimeMystery

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

Tim Orley