Thomas Jane

Thomas Jane is an American actor, director and producer. He was born on February 22, 1969 in Baltimore, Maryland. He has one child with his wife actress Patricia Arquette.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/main details   Arquette and Jane have been married since June of 2006 but filed for divorce in January 2009.  They reconciled only to file for divorce again in 2010.http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20013820-10391698.html, http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20413155,00.htmlhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/bio

Thomas Jane has played on TV series such as High Tide and Medium. He has played in TV movies and as the voice in two video games. In the video game, The Punisher he plays Frank Castle and in Gun he plays Colton White.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/main details

He founded a production company called Raw Studios with Steve Niles and Timothy Bradstreet. Jane is the executive producer of two of the movies he played in, I Melt with You and The Tripper. The actor also directed the movies Dark Country and Jonni Nitro.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/main details

Thomas Jane has been nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards for his role in the TV series Hung. His nomination was in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy. This is Jane’s fifth nomination. He won a Florida Film Critics Circle Award in 1998 for Boogie Nights.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/awards

Thomas Jane’s first movie role was in the Indian movie Padamati Sandhya Ragam in 1986. He followed that up with roles in the movies Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nemesis and The Crow: City of Angles.

In 2003, Jane played Frank Castle in The Punisher.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/main details For this role; he gained from 20 to 40 pounds of muscle and went through rigorous workout sessions. He later said that although the film was fun, it was the most physically exhausting movie he had done.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/bio

Thomas Jane has also acted in a number of plays such as Pastels, Junked and All My Sons.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/other works

• 1986: Padamati Sandhya Ragam
• 1991: She-Wolf of London
• 1992: I'll Love You Forever...Tonight
• 1992: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• 1992: Nemesis
• 1994: At Ground Zero
• 1995: High Tide
• 1996: The Crow: City of Angels
• 1997: Hollywood Confidential
• 1997: The Last Time I Committed Suicide
• 1997: Face/Off
• 1997: Boogie Nights
• 1998: Thursday
• 1998: The Thin Red Line
• 1998: The Velocity of Gary'
• 1998: Zack an Reba
• 1999: Deep Blue Sea
• 1999: Magnolia
• 1999: Molly
• 1999: Junked
• 2000: Jonni Nitro
• 2000: Under Suspicion
• 2001: Eden
• 2001: Original Sin
• 2001: 61+
• 2002: The Sweetest Thing
• 2003: Dreamcatcher
• 2003: Stander
• 2004: The Punisher
• 2006: The Tripper
• 2006: Medium
• 2007: The Mist
• 2008: The Butler's in Love
• 2008: Killshot
• 2008: Mutant Chronicles
• 2009: Dark Country
• 2009: Give 'em Hell, Malone
• 2009: Dark Country
• 2010: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• 2009-2010: Hung
• 2010: DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
• 2011: I Melt with You
• 2011: LOLhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/maindetails

"You gotta start somewhere. Whether it's indie film or whatever. Anything's a start, wherever it happens to fall. But, you can't just come out of nowhere and jump into an $80 million film, I don't think you'll ever see that happen. But I've always wanted to do a picture like this." — On his indie career start and Deep Blue Sea.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/bio

"I don't go to work to have fun. I turn up, say my lines, collect my check, and then go home to my wife and kid. I ain't there to stick around and laugh and cut up with people, and I ain't there to giggle and play jokes and pull people's underwear down and stuff." — Thomas Janehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/bio

"The more well-known I get, it seems the more limited my choices become. So I have to pick and choose and I have to pick a pigeon hole I'm comfortable in." — Thomas Janehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005048/bio