| Appeared in print ads as model for Prada |
| Began doing voiceovers for TV commercials |
| Joined Wooster Group; debut performance in "Nayatt School" |
| Joined experimental theater group Theatre X in Milwaukee, WI |
| Toured the U.S. and Europe for two years with Theatre X productions "Offending the Audience," "Phaedre," and "Razor Blades" |
1977 | Moved to New York City |
1981 | Film acting debut, starred as a biker-poet in Kathryn Bigelow's "The Loveless" |
1984 | Donned leather again for Walter Hill's oddball rock'n'roll picture "Streets of Fire" |
1985 | Performance as homicidal counterfeiter in William Friedkin's "To Live and Die on L.A." caught attention of Oliver Stone |
1986 | Breakthrough film role, Sgt. Elias,in Stone's "Platoon"; garnered Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination |
1988 | Starred as Jesus in Martin Scorsese's controversial "The Last Temptation of Christ" |
1988 | Teamed with Gene Hackman as FBI agents in Alan Parker's "Mississippi Burning" |
1990 | Played psycho Bobby Peru in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" |
1993 | Co-starred with Madonna in the erotic thriller "Body of Evidence" |
1994 | Portrayed a soldier in Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger" |
1994 | Starred opposite Miranda Richardson in "Tom and Viv," portraying American-born British writer T. S. Eliot |
1996 | Appeared as the mercernary Caravaggio in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture "The English Patient" |
1997 | Cast as principal villain in Jan De Bont's disappointing sequel "Speed 2: Cruise Control" |
1997 | Portrayed Nick Nolte's successful brother in "Affliction" |
1997 | Returned to the stage to play Yank in Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" for the Wooster Group's uptown experiment |
1998 | Cast as Christopher Walken's mysterious sidekick in Abel Ferrara's "New Rose Hotel" |
1998 | Delivered a villainous turn as an anthropologist in the festival screened "Lulu on the Bridge" |
1999 | Acted in the Wooster Group's production of "North Atlantic" |
1999 | Had cameo role as a menacing gas station attendent in David Cronenberg's visually intriguing if muddily plotted "eXistenZ" |
2000 | Delivered curiously eccentric turn as a gay FBI agent in the little-seen "Boondock Saints" |
2000 | Portrayed the detective investigating the disappearance of a Wall Street broker in "American Psycho" |
2000 | Received critical plaudits for his slightly over-the-top portrayal of Max Schreck in the fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film "Nosferatu" (1922) in "Shadow of the Vampire"; earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination |
2001 | Played an American missionary who falls in love with a Chinese woman in "Pavilion of Women" |
2002 | Cast as the villainous Green Goblin in "Spider-Man" |
2002 | Co-starred with Frances McDormand in "To You, the Birdie!," a stage adaptation of "Phedre" performed by the Wooster Group |
2002 | Played the accused killer of Bob Crane in "Autofocus" |
2003 | Co-starred in the feature "Once Upon A Time In Mexico" |
2004 | Again portrayed Green Goblin/Norman Osborn in "Spider-Man 2" |
2004 | Cast opposite Bill Murray in Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" |
2004 | Starred opposite Paul Bettany in "The Reckoning" |
2004 | Starred opposite Robert Redford in the thriller "The Clearing" |
2006 | Co-starred with Denzel Washington in the Spike Lee directed hostage drama "Inside Man" |
2006 | Starred in "Manderlay," the second part to Lars von Trier's U.S.A. trilogy |
2008 | Played a detective in the independent feature "Anamorph" |
2009 | Cast as vampire Gavner Purl in the feature adaptation "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" |
2009 | Cast in the Public Theater's world premiere of "Idiot Savant" |
2009 | Voiced the Rat in Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the Roald Dahl book "Fantastic Mr. Fox" |
2010 | Cast as Elvis, a 'cured' vampire, in the sci-fi film "Daybreakers" |
2012 | Co-starred with Taylor Kitsch in sci-fi Western "John Carter" |
