Billy Zane

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: February 24, 1966

This strapping, handsome leading man specializes in villains and oddballs, and has appeared in a number of big-budget hits and odd independent films since the late 1980s. Moving to Los Angeles right out of high school, Billy Zane appeared in local theater (he'd been inspired by teenaged theater-going trips to London), before getting bit parts in "Back to the Future" (1985, as a thug), "Critters" (1986) and the TV-movie "Brotherhood of Justice" (ABC, 1986). He enjoyed his first breakthrough with a chilling perfo…more

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Credits

Actor

Dean Koontz's Sole Survivor
Joe Carpenter
Louis L'Amour's The Diamond of Jeru
Mike Kardec
Bet Your Life
Joseph
Danger Zone
Rick Morgan
Invincible
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Producer

Danger Zone
Co-Producer

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Career Milestones

2008
Replaced Timothy Olyphant as Sam's (Christina Applegate) ex in ABC's "Samantha Who?"
2007
Co-starred with Dennis Hopper in the independent feature "Memory"
2006
Cast in the big-screen version of the popular video game "BloodRayne"
2006
Made his London stage debut in Arthur Allan Seidelman's production of "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks"
2004
Cast in John Sayles’ political satire "Silver City," co-starring Chris Cooper