| Raised in Alexandria, VA |
1986 | TV debut in the CBS TV-movie "Sin of Innocence" |
1988 | Feature debut, Blake Edwards' "Sunset" |
1988 | Joined an all star cast for Christopher Cain's "Young Guns" |
1989 | Played a gay man who dies from an AIDS-related illness in "Longtime Companion" |
1990 | Acted with Sam Shepard in Michael Fields' "Bright Angel" |
1992 | First leading role in a feature, "Where the Day Takes You" |
1993 | Acted with Steve Buscemi for the first time in "The Last Outlaw" (HBO) |
1993 | Portrayed the clueless boyfriend of Bridget Fonda's trained assassin in "Point of No Return" |
1993 | Re-teamed with Shepard for "Silent Tongue" |
1993 | Wrote the song "Someone Else's Used Guitar" for Peter Bogdanovich's "The Thing Called Love"; also acted in the movie |
1994 | First collaboration with director Tom DiCillo, the short "Scene Six, Take One"; played Wolf, the cinematographer, to Buscemi's director |
1995 | Played Wynona Ryder's beau in "How to Make an American Quilt" |
1995 | Served as associate producer of DiCillo's "Living in Oblivion," an expanded version of "Scene Six, Take One" |
1996 | Appeared briefly in Anjelica Huston's "Bastard Out of Carolina" (Showtime) as Jennifer Jason Leigh's sweet-tempered husband |
1996 | Played a young upstart mobster in Robert Altman's "Kansas City"; Buscemi also in cast |
1996 | Re-teamed with DiCillo for "Box of Moonlight," playing a hostile grease monkey |
1997 | Portrayed the prospective bridegroom caught between Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz in "My Best Friend's Wedding" |
1998 | Starred with Patricia Arquette and Don Johnson as "a murderous, adulterous, ambitious family" in the black comedy "Goodbye Lover" |
2000 | First film with writer-director Alan Rudolph, "Trixie" |
2000 | Shared the screen with film legend Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino in "Where the Money Is" |
2001 | Appeared in Nicole Holofcener's "Lovely & Amazing," opposite wife Catherine Keener and Brenda Blethyn |
2001 | Re-teamed with Rudolph for "Investigating Sex" |
2002 | Had comedic turn as Jack Nicholson's prospective son-in-law in "About Schmidt" |
2003 | Cast in the ensemble "The Safety of Objects" |
2004 | Starred with Josh Lucas in the dramatic thriller "Undertow" |
2005 | Played the eldest son who brings his girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker) home to meet his family in the holiday comedy "The Family Stone" |
2005 | Starred with Debra Messing in the romantic comedy "The Wedding Date" |
2007 | Co-starred in the Garry Marshall directed "Georgia Rule" |
2007 | Portrayed the father in "Gracie," a movie inspired by events in the lives of Elisabeth and Andrew Shue |
2008 | Cast in the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading" |
2008 | Cast in the television adaptation of "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" (Lifetime) |
2010 | Played Jim Rockford in NBC TV-movie "The Rockford Files" |
2011 | Played Col. Schwarzkopf in the biographical drama "J. Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio |
2012 | Acted in the adventure thriller "The Grey," co-starring Liam Neeson |
2012 | Cast alongside Drew Barrymore in "Big Miracle," a drama centered on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle |
2012 | Cast in Chris Colfer's feature writing debut "Struck by Lightning" |
