
James LeGros
Highest Rated: 100% Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Lowest Rated: 0% Solarbabies (1986)
Birthday: Apr 27, 1962
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
In the 1990s, James LeGros built a career that paralleled the track of independent cinema, becoming a go-to actor for both lead and supporting parts in some of the signature indie films of the decade. LeGros stuck his foot in Hollywood's door in the mid-1980s, his blond, square-jawed countenance often netting him one-off television jobs as young toughs or other sundry low-lifes. After landing his first feature with the notorious sci-fi bomb "Solarbabies" (1987) and his first lead role in the equally maligned horror outing "Phantasm II" (1988), LeGros would find a niche in the less-monied quarters of the filmmaking world, beginning with the Gus Van Sant film "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989) and building into one of the most prolific indie careers in the business. He would largely figure into the existentialist meanderings of "Generation X" films, as seen in the likes of "Singles" (1992), "Where the Day Takes You" (1992), "Floundering" (1994) and "The Low Life" (1995), and hit his stride as an entitled superstar slumming in an indie film for the street cred in "Living in Oblivion" (1995). In 2000, he transitioned into television, joining the cast of "Ally McBeal" (Fox, 1997-2002), which would put him on a track for an intermittent TV career, highlighted by the Showtime series "Sleeper Cell" (2005), the NBC drama "Mercy" (2009-2010), lavish HBO period miniseries "Mildred Pierce" (2011) and critically-acclaimed cable series "Justified" (FX 2010-14). A longtime indie darling and slacker-stereotype specialist, LeGros' body of work bore out his capacity to play everything from hero to heel across nearly every genre of film and television.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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55% | No Score Yet | Buck Run | William Templeton (Character) | - | 2019 |
82% | 80% | Phoenix, Oregon | Bobby (Character) | - | 2019 |
91% | 61% | Support the Girls | Cubby (Character) | $128.6K | 2018 |
39% | 46% | Nostalgia | Patrick (Character) | $84.9K | 2018 |
70% | 40% | Wildling | The Wolf Man (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Waterlily Jaguar | Bob (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dating My Mother | Chester (Character) | - | 2017 |
25% | 40% | The People Garden | Director (Character) | - | 2016 |
92% | 51% | Certain Women | Ryan Lewis (Character) | $1M | 2016 |
75% | 15% | Stray Bullets | Cody (Character) | - | 2016 |
57% | 17% | Big Muddy | Buford Carver (Character) | $546 | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Point Break | FBI Dept. Director No. 2 (Character) | $15.6M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Hours Between Planes | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
56% | 77% | The Young Kieslowski | Walter Mallard (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sixth Gun | Bill John O'Henry (Character) | - | 2013 |
80% | 52% | Redwood Highway | Michael Vaughn (Character) | $1.3M | 2013 |
86% | 41% | Night Moves | Feed Factory Clerk (Character) | $252.9K | 2013 |
86% | 68% | A Birder's Guide to Everything | Donald Portnoy (Character) | - | 2013 |
75% | 64% | Big Miracle | Karl Hootkin (Character) | $20.1M | 2012 |
47% | 36% | Skateland | Clive Burkham (Character) | $11.1K | 2010 |
57% | 32% | Bitter Feast | Peter Gray (Character) | - | 2010 |
45% | 29% | Winged Creatures | Dan (Character) | - | 2008 |
33% | 22% | Sherman's Way | Palmer (Character) | $9.6K | 2008 |
70% | 54% | Visioneers | Julieen (Character) | - | 2008 |
76% | 34% | The Last Winter | James Hoffman (Character) | $32.9K | 2006 |
28% | 35% | Trust the Man | Dante (Character) | $1.5M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paradise | Matthew Paradise (Character) | - | 2004 |
31% | 41% | November | Hugh (Character) | $191.3K | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Sexual Life | Josh (Character) | - | 2004 |
13% | 47% | Catch That Kid | Ferrell (Character) | $16.7M | 2004 |
57% | 38% | Straight Into Darkness | Soldier (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Damaged Care | Doug Peeno (Character) | - | 2002 |
86% | 63% | Lovely & Amazing | Paul (Character) | $4.2M | 2001 |
59% | 75% | Scotland, Pa. | Joe "Mac" McBeth (Character) | $384.1K | 2001 |
34% | 36% | World Traveler | Jack (Character) | $98K | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Life in the Fast Lane | D.J. (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Common Ground | Amos (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | There's No Fish Food in Heaven | D.J. (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 39% | If You Only Knew | Jack (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drop Back Ten | Peter Barnes (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jump | Bicker (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Border Line | Dan Macivers (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pass | Hunter (Character) | - | 1998 |
72% | 78% | Enemy of the State | Jerry Miller (Character) | $111.5M | 1998 |
43% | 81% | Thursday | Billy Hill (as James Le Gros) (Character) | $2K | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 63% | L.A. Without a Map | Takowsky (Character) | - | 1998 |
39% | 28% | Psycho | Charlie the Car Dealer (Character) | $21.5M | 1998 |
60% | 56% | The Myth of Fingerprints | Cezanne (Character) | $541.1K | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Pronto | Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Destiny of Marty Fine | Grill (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Countdown | Lt. Michael Killip (Character) | - | 1996 |
15% | 26% | Boys | Fenton Ray (Character) | $513.8K | 1996 |
62% | 34% | Infinity | John Wheeler (Character) | $145.7K | 1996 |
0% | 25% | Wishful Thinking | Max (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Marshal Law | Cougar (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Looking | Jim (Character) | - | 1995 |
17% | 21% | Destiny Turns On the Radio | Thoreau (Character) | $1.1M | 1995 |
86% | 75% | Safe | Chris (Character) | $15.8K | 1995 |
56% | 36% | The Low Life | Mike, Jr. (Character) | $40.9K | 1995 |
27% | 75% | Panther | Avakian (Character) | $6.3M | 1995 |
88% | 87% | Living in Oblivion | Chad Palomino (Character) | $48K | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Do It! | Dodger (Character) | - | 1994 |
9% | 40% | Bad Girls | William Tucker (Character) | $15.2M | 1994 |
67% | 56% | Floundering | John (Character) | - | 1994 |
75% | 60% | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle | Deems Taylor (Character) | $2.1M | 1994 |
63% | 39% | Guncrazy | Howard (Character) | - | 1992 |
80% | 74% | Where the Day Takes You | Crasher (Character) | $389K | 1992 |
79% | 72% | Singles | Andy (Character) | $15.9M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Nervous Ticks | Rusty (Character) | - | 1992 |
50% | 38% | My New Gun | Skippy (Character) | $10K | 1992 |
70% | 79% | Point Break | Roach (Character) | $40.5M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 46% | Blood & Concrete: A Love Story | Lance (Character) | $2.2K | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Heartbreak | Carl (Character) | - | 1990 |
100% | 85% | Drugstore Cowboy | Rick (Character) | $4.2M | 1989 |
40% | 57% | Phantasm II | Mike (Character) | $5.7M | 1988 |
0% | 43% | Solarbabies | Metron (Character) | $1.3M | 1986 |
TV
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62% | 85% | The Passage | Horace Guilder (Guest Star) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Blue Bloods | Don Vorhees (Guest Star) | 2018-2019 |
75% | 65% | Fear the Walking Dead | Eddie (Guest Star) | 2017 |
92% | 78% | Person of Interest | Bruce Moran (Guest Star) | 2016 2014 |
96% | 67% | Battle Creek | Mitchell Ford (Guest Star) | 2015 |
72% | 74% | Constantine | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
97% | 95% | Justified | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 2011-2012 |
93% | 92% | The Good Wife | Judge Adam Tolkin (Guest Star) | 2013 |
69% | 79% | Revenge | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Girls | Jeff Lavoyt (Guest Star) | 2012 |
90% | 96% | House | Oliver (Guest Star) | 2012 |
84% | 77% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mildred Pierce | Unknown (Character) | 2011 |
25% | No Score Yet | Mercy | Unknown (Character) | 2009-2010 |
77% | No Score Yet | Sleeper Cell |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2005-2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
61% | 70% | Ally McBeal | Mark Albert (Character) | 2000-2002 |
No Score Yet | 94% | Friends | Jim Nelson (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 80% | ER | Dr. Max Rocher (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
76% | 68% | Roseanne | Mr. Schlosser (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Punky Brewster | Blade (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 98% | Knight Rider | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
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