Wes Bentley

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Wes Bentley (2012)

Wesley Cook Bentley (born September 4, 1978 in Jonesboro , Arkansas ) is an American actor .

Life

The second youngest son of Cherie and David Bentley grew up in Mountain Home , Arkansas . While in high school at Sylvan Hills High School , he co-captained the soccer team, played in the theater troupe, and played the trombone in the school band. He made his first acting steps on the cabaret in Little Rock , before moving to the renowned Juliard Drama School in New York at the request of his mother . There he only studied for five months and in the meantime earned his living as a waiter in a restaurant on Long Island . The director Simon Aeby discovered him by chance for his first feature film, the psychological thriller Three Below Zero .

After his film debut with a smaller role in the Toni Morrison film adaptation of Menschenkind , he fell in with a wide audience in Sam Mendes ' American Beauty in 1999 because of his multifaceted role as a supposed model student who also deals drugs and pays homage to his voyeuristic tendencies with video recordings of neighbors on. For this role he received - in addition to various nominations - a Chicago Film Critics Association Award , the NBR Award , the Online Film Critics Society Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award .

Another highlight of his career was the role of the young British officer Jack Durrance, where he a conformist war hero during the Mahdi - Uprising in 1885, in Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers . Played In The Empire and the Glory he was seen in another historical role - as a young, determined railroad engineer during the gold rush in California in 1849. With the portrayal of the demon Blackheart in the film Ghost Rider , he embodied a villain for the first time. In the film adaptation of the short story Dolan's Cadillac by Stephen King , he then played an originally pacifist , avenging educator and thus returned to earlier role formats.

From 2001 to 2009 he was married to Jennifer Quanz. In 2010 he married Jacqui Swedberg, with whom he has a son (* 2010) and a daughter (* 2014).

Others

  • His parents are clergy in a Methodist church.
  • After reading Benjamin Hoff's The Tao of pooh ( Tao Te Puh: The Book of the Tao and Pooh the Bear ) he became a Taoist .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Wes Bentley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.fandango.com/wesbentley/biographies/p263919
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004747/awards
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dvdmaniacs.de
personal data
SURNAME Bentley, Wes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bentley, Wesley Cook (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonesboro , Arkansas , USA