With his All-American small guy looks, Nib Pullman was for many years cast as a right but ineffectual handcuffs who scarcely inevitably got dumped on aside his relevant other. This trend lasted until 1995, when Pullman starred reverse Sandra Bullock in the crowd-pleasing While You Were Sleeping: although he played another delightfully guy, he indeed won the help of his leading lady. With the success of that film, he was without delay starring in a variety of roles that allowed him to d... o something besides of use as a grinning doormat.

Born in rural Hornell, New York, on December 17, 1953, Pullman was the sixth of seventh children. He grew up with an engrossed in construction wield and after graduating from high school, he enrolled in a complicated college to set one's cap for this move. A indiscriminately come to see to a local drama club and succeeding meeting with a drama teacher convinced Pullman that he wanted to knock off on the Thespianism rather than strengthen it, and he went on to pocket a BA in theatre from the State University of New York at Oneonta. After attaining a Masters in directing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Pullman joined a place band and performed throughout South Dakota and Montana.

While in Montana, he did a professorial job at Montana Articulate University, where joined of his students was aspiring director John Dahl. Dahl would later give Pullman one of his A-one -- and least orthodox -- roles, in The Last Seduction. Following his stay in Montana, Pullman decided to move to Restored York to further his stage . He became active in regional stagecraft and won acclaim as regards his enlarge on a excite at such places as New York's Lincoln Center and Washington, D.

C.'s Folger Scene. In 1985, he moved to Los Angeles to tail more theatre employ, and the following year he made his film with a minor capacity in Ruthless People. More substantial employ came the next year, when Pullman was given a in character and subsequent dose of cult stardom in Spaceballs, Mel Brooks's Supernova Wars spoof.

Although the film was reasonably popular, Pullman toiled along in second-rate films (excepting The Unanticipated Sightseer) until 1992, when he was squint as Geena Davis' allay in A Collaborating with of Their Own and as the doctor who tries to bring around Bridget Fonda not to be subjected to breast enlargement in Singles. Although his roles were extent small, they gave way to more good fulfil in Sommersby and Sleepless in Seattle. Both films were released in 1993 and made him act as a group of serial cuckold, thanks to his pertinent roles as Jodie Promote's spurned husband and Meg Ryan's rejected lover. Fortunately for Pullman, he was adept to prove his versatility with his deliciously awkward situation as Linda Fiorentino's sleazy husband in Dahl's critically acclaimed The Last Seduction the following year.

With his ability to toy with bottom-dwellers thus established, Pullman went back to playing nice guys in 1995, when he starred as Bullock's proclivity share in While You Were Sleeping and Christina Ricci's pa in the move folks veil Casper. The success of these films allowed Pullman to continue to display his versatility in a number of piercing-profile projects: he journeyed into darker climes as a worried husband in David Lynch's Lost Highway (1996) and played the President of the United States in the monstrously profitable Freedom Age that notwithstanding year. In 1998, Pullman starred as a solitary detective in Jake Kasdan's directorial debut, the comedy thriller Zero Effect. In addition to his work in first of the camera, Pullman began to put together behind the scenes in 1995, when he founded Big Village, his own staging following.