Wes Bentley
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)
- 1998: Three Below Zero - Three below zero (Three Below Zero)
- 1999: American Beauty
- 2000: The Empire and Glory (The Claim)
- 2001: Carving Out Our Name
- 2001: Soul Survivors
- 2002: The Four Feathers (The Four Feathers)
- 2004: The Game of Their Lives
- 2007: Ghost Rider
- 2007: Weirdsville
- 2007: P2 - screams in the parking garage (P2)
- 2008: The Last Word
- 2008: Edgar Allan Poe's Das Grab der Ligeia (The Tomb)
- 2009: Dolan's Cadillac
- 2009: The Ungodly
- 2010: There Be Dragons
- 2010: Jonah Hex
- 2011: Underworld: Awakening
- 2011: Fallen Empire - The Aradians Rebellion (Hirokin)
- 2011: Faith, Blood and Fatherland (There Be Dragons)
- 2012: Gone
- 2012: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games)
- 2013: Lovelace
- 2013: Pioneer
- 2014–2016: American Horror Story (TV series, 21 episodes)
- 2014: Interstellar
- 2014: Welcome to Me
- 2015: We Are Your Friends
- 2015: Knight of Cups
- 2015: Final Girl
- 2016: A Deadly Promise (Broken Vows)
- 2016: Elliot the Dragon (Pete's Dragon)
- 2018: Mission: Impossible - Fallout
- since 2018: Yellowstone (TV series)
- 2019: The Best of Enemies
Awards
- National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough for American Beauty
- Online Film Critics Society Award for Best American Beauty Ensemble
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Best American Beauty Ensemble
- Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Male Role for American Beauty
- Nomination — MTV Movie Award Best Breakthrough for American Beauty
- Nomination — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Male Role for American Beauty
Web links
- Wes Bentley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wes Bentley in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fandango.com/wesbentley/biographies/p263919
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004747/awards
- ↑ 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.
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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 |