Jeremy Davies

Biography: Jeremy Davies

Jeremy Davies has made a name for himself playing a series of damaged and offbeat characters that highlight the young actor's considerable talents. Born October 28, 1969, in Rockford, IA, the skinny, dark-haired Davies trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, CA. After making his television debut in a Suzuki commercial, he worked on various television shows. The actor made his film debut in the Drew Barrymore film Guncrazy (1992), but it was not until his turn as a young man being manipulated into an Oedipal relationship by his mother in David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey (1994) that the actor began to garner wide respect and recognition. The film earned the actor considerable rave reviews, indie credibility, and an eventual role in the Jodie Foster movie Nell. In 1997, Davies went on to do The Locusts, co-starring Ashley Judd and Vince Vaughn. His role as Flyboy, the emotionally crippled son of an abusive mother, further added to the actor's reputation of playing victimized, internally conflicted young men. He next played a similarly conflicted character in the Mark Pellington adaptation of Dan Wakefield's coming-of-age novel Going All the Way, in which he co-starred with Ben Affleck. Davies' knack for choosing roles that allow him to go beyond Hollywood's conventions and mine the complexities of the human spirit was further reflected in his portrayal of the battle-shy Corporal Upham in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and his role as a despondent officer in Ravenous (1999). 2001 found Davies stepping in front of the camera as a director whose attempt at finishing a film with a troubled production history proves exceptionally grating in CQ, the directorial debut of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's son Roman Coppola. Davies two most memorable roles in 2002 saw him developing a twitchy eccentricity that would become a trademark in many of his films. The dark sexual comedy Secretary had him as a lovelorn suitor opposite a masochistic Maggie Gyllenhal and the sci-fi drama Solaris offered him the opportunity to work under the direction of Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh. Having proven time and again his ability to pull off quirky, Davies tried his hand at all-out madness in 2004 when he starred as the infamous Charles Manson in the made-for-television remake of Helter Skelter. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide less

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The 24th Day (2004)
Cast: Jeremy Davies Scott Speedman James Marsden Tony Piccirillo
Tags: Psychological Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Drama
Length: 97min
A casual gay pickup turns into a nightmare in Tony Piccirillo's adaptation of his play, The 24th Day. Tom (Scott Speedman of TV's Felicity) approaches Dan (James Marsden of X-Men) in a bar, and the two hit it off. Tom brings Dan home to his apartment,...
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Rescue Dawn (2006)
Cast: Werner Herzog Christian Bale Jeremy Davies Steve Zahn
Tags: Docudrama Escape Film POW Drama War
Length: 120min
Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to direct his first feature since 2001's Invincible with this dramatic action film inspired by his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and detailing the escape efforts of a German-American pilot...
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Helter Skelter (2004)
Cast: Bruno Kirby Jeremy Davies Mary Lynn Rajskub Clea Duvall Marguerite Moreau
Tags: Docudrama Crime Drama Crime True Crime
Length: 180min
The most infamous multiple murders of the 1960s are brought back to life in this, the second made-for-television adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry's best-selling account of Charles Manson and his "family." Linda Kasabian (Clea DuVall) is...
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Dogville (2003)
Cast: Lars von Trier James Caan Nicole Kidman John Hurt Lauren Bacall
Tags: Period Film Art Film Drama Melodrama
Length: 177min
Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small...
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Solaris (2002)
Cast: James Cameron Steven Soderbergh George Clooney Jeremy Davies Natascha McElhone
Tags: Science Fiction Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 99min
A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities -- and ends up having to deal with an entity of his own -- in this second film version of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical sci-fi novel....
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Secretary (2002)
Cast: James Spader Lesley Ann Warren Angelo Badalamenti Steven Shainberg Maggie Gyllenhaal
Tags: Black Comedy Sex Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 112min
Sadomasochism provides the backdrop for a very unusual employer/employee relationship in this very offbeat omantic drama from filmmaker Steven Shainberg. Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a shy young woman, who, after a brief spell in a mental...
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Searching For Paradise (2002)
Cast: Jeremy Davies Carter Burwell Michele Placido Chris Noth Josef Sommer
Tags: Road Movie Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 88min
Gilda (Susan May Pratt of Center Stage) is a confused young woman, obsessed with iconoclastic actor Michael De Santis (Chris Noth). She repeatedly watches a tape of De Santis being interviewed by an unctuous, James Lipton-type talk show host (played...
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CQ (2001)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu Francis Ford Coppola Jeremy Davies Élodie Bouchez Giancarlo Giannini
Tags: Period Film Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 91min
The feature debut of Roman Coppola (son of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola) centers around an international film crew making a low-budget, Barbarella-like feature in Paris in 1969. The film is called Dragonfly and is being directed by...
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Teknolust (2002)
Cast: Tilda Swinton Karen Black Jeremy Davies James Urbaniak Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Tags: Science Fiction Black Comedy Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 85min
In this offbeat sci-fi-drama, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) is a scientist specializing in biogenetics who has made a major breakthrough in artificial biological engineering. Rosetta has created a type of Self-Replicating Automaton, which looks like a...
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29 Palms (2002)
Cast: Chris O'Donnell Jeremy Davies Rachael Leigh Cook Michael Rapaport Bill Pullman
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 93min
Leonardo Ricagni, director of the 1998 Uruguayan comedy El Chevrolé, helmed this straight-to-video ensemble crime thriller, in which the main character is a bag of money. Initially belonging to a casino on an Indian reservation, The Chief (Russell...
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