James Remar

• Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
• Birthday: December 31, 1953

Rugged, intense character player with a receding hairline, average-guy good looks and a slightly squinty stare, adept at vicious, sometimes psychopathic roles but susprisingly skilled in more sensitive portryals, as shown by his turn on "Sex and the City." Remar gained recognition as a punk who gets chained to a park bench by a woman cop in his second film, Walter Hill's "The Warriors" (1979). That same year he garnered acclaim on Broadway as Richard Gere's lover in the concentration camp drama, "Bent". Remar subsequently kept busy primarily in…more