An individual of America's most recognizable character actors, James Rebhorn is a mature of over 100 video receiver shows, memorable part films, and plays. While most superbly known in behalf of portraying lawyers, politicians, doctors, and military men, he has delivered equally notable performances in a variety of other roles, including that of a savage serial killer-diller from Manila on NBC's Law & Order, a shipping magnate in Anthony Minghella's The Clever Mr. Ripley (1999), and a ... comically doomed restaurateur in Billy Morrisette's Scotland, PA (2001).

Born in Philadelphia, PA, on September 1, 1948, Rebhorn moved to Anderson, IN, as a issue. A devout Lutheran, he attended the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Wittenburg University in Ohio, where he premeditated federal method. After graduating in 1970, Rebhorn moved to New York Town, where he earned a Master's of Consummate Arts in acting from Columbia University's Principles of the Arts and joined the metropolitan theater get around. After making his tube on the NBC soap opera The Doctors in 1977, Rebhorn starred on Another Elated: Texas and The Guiding Inane, as wonderfully as earned a 1989 Soap Opera Digest Award in regard to his performance as Henry Lange on As the Earth Turns.

He displayed his comic talents during a recurring part on Kate and Allie, and in an unforgettable turn as the territory attorney who jails the Seinfeld gang in the demonstrate's final episode. He also garnered recurring roles on some of small screen's most heralded dramas -- including Law & Order, Third Inspect, Now and Again, and The Exercise -- and eventful telefilms -- including Sarah, Forthright and Tall (1981), North and South (1985), Skylark (1993), From the Soil to the Moon (1998), and A Bright Shining Condition (1998). Rebhorn's feature-film speed began in the primordial '80s with roles such as "Lawyer" in Soup representing Ditty (1982), "Los Alamos Doctor" in Silkwood (1983), and "Drunken Business Man" in Cat's Eye (1985). As the decade progressed, his parts increased in importance and he emerged in the '90s as an established supporting actor with roles in a few high-profile films.

After appearing in 1991's Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford and Annette Bening, Rebhorn gave stand-entirely performances opposite Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny (1992), Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct (1992), Chris O'Donnell and Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992), and Susan Sarandon and Run off Nolte in Lorenzo's Oil (1992). He went on to earn prominent roles in Carlito's Way (1993), Guarding Tess (1994), I Thing embrace Bother (1994), Up Close & Personal (1996), Independence Day (1996), If Lucy Level (1996), and My Colleague Americans (1996). Rebhorn rounded distant the '90s beside playing the mysterious Consumer Recreation Services ambassador in The Position (1997), the prosecuting attorney in Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), and Jude Law's shipping magnate father in the above-mentioned The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).

The new millennium saw him starring as Robert De Niro's prospective in-law in Meet the Parents (2000) and a modern-daytime variation of Macbeth's Duncan in the heavens-mentioned Scotland, PA, before gearing up for the Eddie Murphy sci-fi carrier The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), and Todd Haynes' dream of-awaited return to directing, Far From Heaven on earth (2002). While juggling his integument and television work, Rebhorn frequently returns to the stage. He has appeared at the Manhattan Theater Fellowship, Playwright's Horizons, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the LaJolla Playhouse, the Outfit Studio Theater, and Lincoln Center. In 2002, he earned rave reviews for his play in the Roundabout Theater's production of Arthur Miller's inception actions, The Homo sapiens Who Had All the Luck, with Chris O'Donnell and Samantha Mathis.