Raised in Louisville, Kentucky

Worked as a production assistant on "Cocktail" and "Rain Man", both starring Tom Cruise

Between show business jobs, worked as a substitute teacher in L.A.

Film debut in "Born on the Fourth of July"; also served as Cruise's assistant; billed as William R. Mapother

Had featured role in "Without Limits"

Breakthrough screen role, "In the Bedroom," as Richard Strout, the estranged husband of a woman having an affair with a younger man

Appeared in "Minority Report", starring Cruise

Starred in the ABC movie "The Pennsylvania Miners' Story" based on the real-life chronicle of the 'nine for nine' Pennsylvania coal miners who were rescued in the summer of 2002

Cast opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in the thriller "The Grudge"

Starred in the thriller "Zodiac" with Justin Chambers and Rory Culkin

Cast in Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center"