Cole Hauser

At 49 years old, Cole Hauser has this physical status:

Cole Kenneth Hauser (born March 22, 1975) is an American actor.

He is best known for his appearances in the films School Ties, Dazed and Confused, Good Will Hunting, Pitch Black, Tigerland, Hart's War, 2 Fast 2 Furious, A Good Day to Die Hard, Olympus Has Fallen, and Transcendence.

On the police drama Rogue, he appeared as Officer Randy Willitz on the show High Incident and Ethan Kelly.

Rip Wheeler is currently on the Paramount Network western drama series Yellowstone.

Early life

Cole Kenneth Hauser was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Cass Warner, who created the film production company Warner Sisters, and actor Wings Hauser. Dwight Hauser, his paternal grandfather, was acade award-winning screenwriter. Film mogul Harry Warner, a founding partner of Warner Bros., and his maternal grandfather, Milton Sperling, a Hollywood screenwriter and independent film producer, was one of Cole's maternal great-grandfathers. Betty Mae Warner, a painter, sculptor, and gallery owner, married Stanley Sheinbaum, a respected political activist, economist, and former Los Angeles Police Department commissioner. Hauser has a German and Irish descent on his father's side as well as on his mother's Jewish.

When he was two years old, Hauser's parents divorced in 1977. He first met his father after the relocation-induced years of separation, according to him. His father took him in for a year and taught him about auditioning. His mother had moved Hauser and his half-brothers and sisters from Santa Barbara to Florida and then back to Santa Barbara in a 12-year span. He was involved in sports at the time, but half-heartedly pursued education. He was accepted into a talent summer camp in New England, and later received the leading role in the stage play Dark of the Moon, which earned him standing ovations for his work. He left high school to try to break into acting at 16 years old.

Personal life

Cynthia Daniel, a former actress and photographer who appeared Elizabeth Wakefield in Francine Pascal's television series Sweet Valley High, is Hauser's wife. Hauser and Daniel have three children: two sons (born 2004 and 2008), and one daughter (2012).

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Career

Hauser made his film debut in School Ties (1992), which starred many young and up-and-coming actors such as Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell and Ben Affleck. A role in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused also starring Affleck came along subsequently. In 1995, Hauser played the role of the leader of the campus neo-Nazi skinheads in the John Singleton film Higher Learning. Hauser would later re-team with Affleck and Damon when they appeared together in Good Will Hunting (1997). In 2000 he played William J. Johns in Pitch Black and voiced the character in the prequel video game.

In 2002, he played a racist American prisoner-of-war in Hart's War with Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell. Then in 2003, he played a Navy SEAL in Tears of the Sun alongside Bruce Willis. He also appeared as a mob boss in 2 Fast 2 Furious. He has since had several leading roles in Hollywood films, including the Mel Gibson-produced Paparazzi and The Cave.

In 2007, he starred with Anthony Anderson in the FOX series K-Ville. The show was canceled after ten episodes. That same year, Hauser starred in The Stone Angel adapted from a novel by Margaret Laurence. The film played in various festival circles and had a limited release in Canadian theaters in May 2008. During that same year, Cole filmed other indie productions such as Like Dandelion Dust from a novel by Karen Kingsbury, Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys and the CBS television pilot The Tower.

He later played CIA Agent Mike Collins in A Good Day to Die Hard, Secret Service Special Agent Roma in Olympus Has Fallen, and Colonel Stevens in Transcendence.

He starred as Ethan Kelly on the police drama series Rogue and currently stars as Rip Wheeler on the Paramount Network Western drama series Yellowstone.

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