Fine-looking, hale-built and talented to communicate a rangy mark of charm in front of the camera, Dennis Quaid possesses tons star qualities. Despite attaining heartthrob status for his labour in such films as The Big Clear, manner, Quaid has had a enigmatical days maintaining this status, thanks in part to work in a of films that have failed to fully utilize his talent. The son of an electrician and younger brother of actor At stud Quaid, Dennis was born in Houston, Texas on Apri... l 9, 1954.

He began acting in intoxication teaching, and in college he enrolled in a drama program. He dropped far-off at the age of 20 to ensue his brother to Hollywood and spent the next year mired in rejection and attendant on unemployment. He got his first break in 1977 when he was turn in obscure roles in I Not in the least Promised You a Rose Garden and 9/30/55, but it was not until 1979, when he starred in the seminal coming-of-era drama Breaking Away, that Quaid gained notice. It was his role as astronaut Gordo Cooper in The To be fair Stuff four years later that finally gave the actor his Hollywood breakthrough.

He subsequently went on to manifest in a number of films of greatly varying quality. 1987 proved to be a outstandingly good year for Quaid, as he did acclaimed plough in The Hulking Credulous and Believe. That still and all year, he also starred in the comedy Innerspace; that contact proved to be an auspicious one, as it provided him with an introduction to co- Meg Ryan, whom he would marry in 1991. The two also starred together in the 1988 mystery D.O.A. and in the felony drama Colour and Bone in 1993. Other notable roles during Quaid included that of wild man Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire (1989), a 1930s consortium organizer in Come See the Paradise (1990), and Meryl Streep's charity concern in Postcards From the Vehemence (1990).

During a large part of the '90s, Quaid starred in a ligament of disappointing films, including the devastating Wyatt Earp (1994) and the failed medieval fantasy Dragonheart (1996). He made something of a comeback in 1998, appearing in the ensemble blur Playing Alongside Affection and the well-fixed remake of The Parent Fripperies, in which he starred vis-…-vis Natasha Richardson. The following year, he had a starring place as a Miami football team's storied quarterback in Oliver Stone's Any Acknowledged Sunday, and then starred in the extraordinary thriller Frequency (2000) as a emotionless man who is able to communicate with his son (James Caviezel) over ham . Though both films proved moderately flush, it was two-years-later that Quaid would truly deliver to the good graces of critics with his striking turn in director Todd Haynes' Long way From Heaven.

As a closeted homosexual husband living a typical suburban delusion in 1950s era Connecticut, Quaid's irascible show proved intrinsic to convincingly recreating the tenor of a Douglas Sirk age melodrama.