Jason Patric

At 57 years old, Jason Patric has this physical status:

Jason Patric (born June 17, 1966) is an American film, television and stage actor.

He is known for his roles in films such as The Lost Boys, Rush, Sleepers, Geronimo: An American Legend, Your Friends & Neighbors, Narc, The Losers, The Alamo, and Speed 2: Cruise Control.

His father was actor/playwright Jason Miller and his maternal grandfather was actor Jackie Gleason.

Early life

Born in New York City in the borough of Queens, Patric is the son of Academy Award-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller (born John Anthony Miller Jr.) and actress Linda Miller (born Linda Mae Gleason), and his maternal grandfather was actor/comedian Jackie Gleason. His half-brother is actor Joshua John Miller. His ancestry is mostly Irish, with some German.

Growing up in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, he attended schools such as Cavallini Middle School and the all-boys Catholic school Salesian Roman Catholic Don Bosco Preparatory High School (Ramsey, New Jersey). In California, he attended Saint Monica Catholic High School (Santa Monica, California). He appeared in high school productions of Dracula and Grease.

Personal life

Patric began dating actress Julia Roberts days after she canceled her wedding to Kiefer Sutherland in June 1991.

He then dated Danielle Schreiber off-and-on for approximately ten years. During the relationship they conceived a son through in vitro fertilization. However they separated in May 2012. Schreiber's attorneys argued that, under California law, Patric was merely a sperm donor, as Schreiber and Patric had not married and the conception of the child was by artificial means, and therefore Patric had no custody rights. Patric pursued changes to the law that bars such parental rights. He then sued for parental rights to the child, but lost the case at the trial court level.

The Court of Appeal of California, however, ruled that the California Family Code did not preclude Patric from establishing that he was presumed a parent based on his post-birth conduct. The case was sent back to the trial court, and in late 2014 he was legally recognized as the father of his son, with the court granting him parental rights. Following his loss in trial court, he lobbied the California legislature to give parental rights to sperm donors.

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Career

He appeared in Bruce Dern's television drama Toughlove after graduating. Patric appeared in Solarbabies alongside Peter DeLuise, Jami Gertz, Lukas Haas, James LeGros, and Adrian Pasdar. Patric will reunite with Gertz in The Lost Boys and After Dark, My Sweetheart, within a few years, with Dern. In The Beast, he co-starred George Dzundza and Stephen Baldwin.

In 1993, he appeared in the film Geronimo: An American Legend, alongside Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall. The scenes in The Thin Red Line were cut before the film's release. He appeared in the Alec Baldwin film The Devil and Daniel Webster, shot in 2001 and released in late 2007 as Shortcut to Happiness, but he did not appear in The Firm (1993), which went to Tom Cruise. In Rush (1991) and Narc (2002), he received raves for his work as undercover narcotics officers.

Patric appeared on Broadway as "Brick" in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2005, opposite Ashley Judd, Ned Beatty, and respected character actor Margo Martindale. In a revival of his father Jason Miller's drama, That Championship Season, which opened on February 9, 2011, and ended on May 29, 2011, he appeared on Broadway opposite Brian Cox, Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jim Gaffigan. The play, written by Jason Miller, debuted in 1972 and received various honors, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, among other accolades.

Copperhead, a 2012 civil war film, was shot and killed by director Ronald F. Maxwell for "failing to go forward." Billy Campbell was his replacement.

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