Dean Norris
Dean Norris
Dean Joseph Norrisis an American actor, best known for portraying DEA agent Hank Schrader on the AMC series Breaking Badand town councilman James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome. He has appeared in films such as Lethal Weapon 2, Hard To Kill, Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starship Troopers, The Cell, Little Miss Sunshine, Evan Almighty, and Sons of Liberty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 April 1963
CitySouth Bend, IN
CountryUnited States of America
Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.
If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.
When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.
As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.
Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.
Well, I was a drama kid.
The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.
You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.
Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.
I don't have a lot of downtime.
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.