Raised in Alexandria, Virginia

TV debut, "Sin of Innocence", a CBS TV-movie

Feature debut, Blake Edwards' "Sunset"

Joined Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Philips and Casey Siemaszko as the six cowboys of Christopher Cain's "Young Guns"

Starred in "Unconquered" (CBS), the true story of Richmond Flowers Jr who overcame illness, a physical handicap and the derision of his classmates to become a world-class hurdler and football star

Played a gay man and the first character to die of AIDS-related illness in "Longtime Companion"

Acted with Sam Shepard in Michael Fields' "Bright Angel"

First leading role in a feature, "Where the Day Takes You"

Portrayed the clueless boyfriend to Bridget Fonda's trained assassin in "Point of No Return"

Wrote the song "Someone Else's Used Guitar" for Peter Bogdanovich's "The Thing Called Love"; also credited as song performer on it and four other tunes, as well as acting in the movie

Reteamed with Shepard, portraying the prototypical Shepard "son" character in "Silent Tongue", helmed and scripted by Shepard

Acted with Steve Buscemi for the first time in "The Last Outlaw" (HBO)

First collaboration with director Tom DiCillo, the short "Scene Six, Take One", playing Wolf, the cinematographer, to Buscemi's director; second film with wife Catherine Keener

Served as associate producer of DiCillo's "Living in Oblivion", an expanded version of "Scene Six, Take One"

Played Wynona Ryder's beau in "How to Make an American Quilt"

Reteamed with DiCillo and Keener for "Box of Moonlight", portraying a hostile grease monkey

Portrayed young upstart mobster in Robert Altman's atmospheric but dramatically lackluster "Kansas City"; Buscemi also in cast

Appeared briefly in Anjelica Huston's "Bastard Out of Carolina" (Showtime) as Jennifer Jason Leigh's sweet-tempered husband who expires in a freak auto mishap

Portrayed the prospectiv bridegroom caught between Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz in "My Best Friend's Wedding"

Starred with Patricia Arquette and Don Johnson as "a murderous, adulterous, ambitious family" in the black comedy "Goodbye Lover"

Shared the screen with film legend Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino in "Where the Money Is"

First film with writer-director Alan Rudolph, "Trixie", co-starring with Nick Nolte and Emily Watson (in the title role)

Reteamed with Rudolph and Nolte on "Investigating Sex"

Appeared in Nicole Holofcener's "Lovely & Amazing" opposite Catherin Keener and Brenda Blethyn

Had comedic turn as Jack Nicholson's prospective son-in-law in "About Schmidt"

Cast in Rose Troche's drama "The Safety of Objects"

Starred with Josh Lucas in the dramatic thriller "Undertow"

Starred with Debra Messing in the romantic comedy "The Wedding Date"

Played the eldest son who brings his girlfriend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), home to New England to meet his family in the holiday comedy "The Family Stone"

Co-starred in the Garry Marshall directed "Georgia Rule"

Portrayed the father in "Gracie," a movie inspired by events in the lives of Elisabeth and Andrew Shue