Jay O Sanders

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Biography

After graduating from SUNY Purchase, Sanders moved to NYC where he began appearing regularly in off-Broadway productions before making his Broadway debut, opposite Kevin Kline and Christine Lahti, in Michael Weller's "Loose Ends" (1979-80). That same year he made his feature debut with a small role in Alan J. Pakula's "Starting Over". Sanders has gone on to appear in a number of notable period films including Francis Ford Coppola's "Tucker: A …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

April 16, 1953

Career Milestones

2006

Cast opposite Ryan Gosling in "Half Nelson," a feature adaptation of helmer Ryan Fleck's Sundance-winning short film "Gowanus, Brooklyn"

2004

Played Jack Hall's (Dennis Quaid) boss in "The Day After Tomorrow"

2001

Again played FBI Agent Kyle Craig in James Patterson's "Along Came a Spider"

1999

Starred with Janet McTeer in "Tumbleweeds"

1998

Appeared in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple II"

1997

Cast as FBI Agent Kyle Craig in "Kiss the Girls," based on the novel by James Patterson

1987

Cast in a recurring on the stylized cop and gangster show, "Crime Story"

1987

Cast as a regular on the short-lived series, "Private Eye"

1986

TV miniseries debut, "Rage of Angels: The Story Continues"

TV series debut, "AfterMASH"

1980

TV-movie debut, "The Day Christ Died"

1980

Starred as Orsino in the David Mamet-directed "Twelfth Night" at the Circle Rep Theater in NY

1979

Feature acting debut, "Starting Over"

1979

Broadway debut in Michael Weller's "Loose Ends"

Moved to New York City; made NY theater debut in Shakespeare in the Park productions of "Henry V" and "Measure for Measure"

Member of the first graduating class of SUNY Purchase's theater arts program

Lived throughout the USA and South America