Latham Gaines

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Latham Gaines (born February 3, 1964 in Birmingham , Alabama ) is an American actor , artist and inventor. His father is the writer Charles Gaines , who among other things also provided the script for Pumping Iron , his mother is the artist Patricia Ellisor Gaines . Together with his brother Shelby Gaines Shook founded Latham Gaines the Sound Sculpture duo GAINES , inter alia, in 2010 for the music in Ethan Hawkes revival of Sam Shepard's play A Lie of the Mind for a Drama Desk Award in the category "Outstanding Music in a Play ”was nominated.

life and career

Born and raised in 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, Latham Gaines, who also studied acting in the United States, more precisely in New York City , previously lived in New Zealand for more than a decade , from where he worked on his international breakthrough , but also gained experience in various New Zealand and US-New Zealand co-productions. From 1995 to 2001 he was in a total of four or five different episodes of the US television series Xena - The Warrior Princess , which was filmed in New Zealand. Hercules also appeared in two episodes in 1996 , with New Zealand being the main location for this series too. While Gaines withdrew more and more from television and more internationally known series in the following years, he also appeared in various theater plays. Including 12 Angry Men in 1998 and Cabaret in 1999 , both of which were hosted by the Auckland Theater Company . Gaines probably had his first notable film appearance around 1997, when he appeared in the short film Blunted . After an appearance in an episode of Cleopatra 2525 in 2000, the exiled Latham Gaines made numerous appearances from 2002 onwards. For example, in 2002 he had a smaller role in the films Firefighter - Inferno in Oregon and Murder in Greenwich , where he was also employed as a dialogue coach in the first film. The following year, Gaines appeared in an unknown number of episodes on the New Zealand series Spin Doctors and also had a guest role in an episode of Secret Agent Men , also a New Zealand production. He was also used that year by the Auckland Theater Company in The Graduate play .

The US-American had a relatively large number of appearances in 2004, when, in addition to a film appearance in the family, he also appeared in a supporting role in all 38 episodes of Power Rangers Dino Thunder , although this US-New Zealand coproduction will not be his last Was used this year. In the third season of the approximately half-hour New Zealand series Mataku , Gaines was also used. The year 2005 also passed with a relatively large number of assignments by the partly already experienced actor. This year he appeared in the award-winning film Mit Herz und Hand and the three-time Oscar winner King Kong , which was one of the greatest highlights of his career to date. He also made appearances in the television series Interrogation , also produced in New Zealand , as well as an appearance in high society at the Auckland Theater Company, where he was also represented in the 2006 play Doubt . In the same year he was finally used in the US-NZ film Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America , in which he was only assigned a rather small role as a costume mart manager . Gaines had his real breakthrough in the film relatively late, when he could be seen in a not insignificant supporting role as Bill Burke in the film Bridge to Terabithia at the age of 42 or 43 . In the following years, however, his appearances decreased significantly, whereby in 2008 he was only used in one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . He had another breakthrough in New Zealand in 2009 when he was booked as one of the main characters in the short-lived television series The Cult , in which he was seen as Edward North in all 13 episodes. For his achievements there he was nominated for a Qantas Film & Television Award in the category “Performance by an Actor in General Television” the following year . That same year, Gaines was nominated again, who brought in the music with his brother Shelby Shook Gaines as the sound-sculpture duo GAINES in Ethan Hawke's revival of Sam Shepard's piece A Lie of the Mind and for a Drama Desk Award in the category “ Outstanding Music in a Play ”was nominated.

In 2008, Latham Gaines and his partner and later wife, Laura Interval , who also works as an actress, founded Opi and Me , which specializes in the product development of toys and games. In 2009, the couple married, who, among other things, were in front of the camera in The Cult that same year .

Filmography (selection)

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

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personal data
SURNAME Gaines, Latham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, artist, and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , Alabama , United States