Raised mostly by father, but spent summers as a child in NYC with his mother

Launched performing career at age of 10, appearing in a play with his mother

Feature debut in the horror film "Clownhouse"; produced by Francis Ford Coppola

Steadily employed as an actor in theater and commercials

Landed small part in "Last Exit to Brooklyn"

TV debut in "Over the Limit" an ABC Afterschool Special

Appeared in Paul Schrader's "Light Sleeper"

First feature with director Alexandre Rockwell, "In the Soup"

Re-teamed with director Alexandre Rockwell for "Somebody to Love"

Cast as one of two who kidnapped John Rubinstein in "Mercy"

Played One-Eye Jimmy in "The Search for One-Eye Jimmy"; worked with John Turturo for the first time

Delivered critically-acclaimed performance opposite John Turturo in Tom DiCillo's "Box of Moonlight"

His working-class Trent mowed lawns and bonded with 10-year-old Devon in "Lawn Dogs"

Appeared in HBO's "Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground"

Won raves for his performance as a Cockney salesman in the off-Broadway production of "Goose-Pimples" by Mike Leigh

Starred as Jerry opposite Joe Mantegna's Tom in "Jerry and Tom"

Cast as a bumbling actor in the sci-fi satire, "Galaxy Quest"

Played psychotic killer and villain, William 'Wild Bill' Wharton in "The Green Mile" opposite Tom Hanks

Played villain Eric Knox in "Charlie's Angels"

Acted in both "The Dumbwaiter" and "The Zoo Story" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Appeared with Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito in the crime thriller "Heist"

Played Pero is the Russo brother's heist comedy "Welcome to Collinwood"

Breakthrough role as controversial 'Gong Show' host, Chuck Barris in George Clooney's directorial debut, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"

Starred alongside Nicolas Cage in Ridley Scott's "Matchstick Men"

Cast as Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed, ex-hippie President of the Galaxy in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Co-starred with Vera Farmiga in the Sundance screened, "Joshua"

Co-starred as Charles Ford, Robert's brother in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

Played an estranged husband who tries to reconnect with his wife (played by Kate Beckinsale) in "Snow Angels"

Cast as Victor Mancini, a sex addict in the film "Choke," based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Portrayed James Reston Jr. in the film adaption of Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon"

Played an Astronaut working alone in the sci-fi thriller, "Moon"