2012 | Cast in ensemble crime comedy "Seven Psychopaths" |
2011 | Cast opposite Jonah Hill in "The Sitter" |
2011 | Played a saloon owner in the sci-fi Western "Cowboys & Aliens" |
2010 | Played a man wrongly accused of a crime in "Conviction" |
2010 | Cast as Tony Stark's rival Justin Hammer in Jon Favreau's "Iron Man 2" |
2009 | Played an astronaut working alone in the sci-fi thriller "Moon" |
2008 | Portrayed James Reston Jr. in the film adaption of Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" |
2008 | Cast as Victor Mancini, a sex addict in the film "Choke," based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk |
2008 | Played an estranged husband who tries to reconnect with his wife (Kate Beckinsale) in "Snow Angels" |
2007 | Co-starred as Charles Ford, Robert's brother in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" |
2007 | Co-starred with Vera Farmiga in the Sundance screened "Joshua" |
2005 | Cast as Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed, ex-hippie President of the Galaxy in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" |
2003 | Starred alongside Nicolas Cage in Ridley Scott's "Matchstick Men" |
2002 | Breakthrough role as controversial 'Gong Show' host, Chuck Barris in George Clooney's directorial debut, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" |
2002 | Played Pero is the Russo brothers' heist comedy "Welcome to Collinwood" |
2001 | Appeared with Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito in the crime thriller "Heist" |
2001 | Acted in both "The Dumbwaiter" and "The Zoo Story" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival |
2000 | Played villain Eric Knox in "Charlie's Angels" |
1999 | Played psychotic killer and villain William 'Wild Bill' Wharton in "The Green Mile" opposite Tom Hanks |
1999 | Cast as a bumbling actor in the sci-fi satire "Galaxy Quest" |
1998 | Starred as Jerry opposite Joe Mantegna's Tom in "Jerry and Tom" |
1997 | Won raves for his performance as a Cockney salesman in the off-Broadway production of "Goose-Pimples" by Mike Leigh |
1997 | Appeared in HBO's "Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground" |
1997 | His working-class Trent mowed lawns and bonded with 10-year-old Devon in "Lawn Dogs" |
1996 | Delivered critically-acclaimed performance opposite John Turturo in Tom DiCillo's "Box of Moonlight" |
1996 | Played One-Eye Jimmy in "The Search for One-Eye Jimmy"; worked with John Turturo for the first time |
1995 | Cast as one of two who kidnapped John Rubinstein in "Mercy" |
1994 | Re-teamed with director Alexandre Rockwell for "Somebody to Love" |
1992 | First feature with director Alexandre Rockwell, "In the Soup" |
1992 | Appeared in Paul Schrader's "Light Sleeper" |
1990 | TV debut in "Over the Limit," an ABC "Afterschool Special" |
1989 | Landed small part in "Last Exit to Brooklyn" |
| Steadily employed as an actor in theater and commercials |
1988 | Feature debut in the horror film "Clownhouse"; produced by Francis Ford Coppola |
1978 | Launched performing career at age of 10, appearing in a play with his mother |
| Raised mostly by father, but spent summers as a child in NYC with his mother |