Cole Hauser:

After endless, unsuccessful auditions he finally got his breakand was invited to fill out the first credited role for the movieSchool Ties (1992). A role in Richard Linklater's Dazed andConfused  came along subsequently. In 2002, he played a racistAmerican prisoner-of-war in Hart's War with Bruce Willis and CollinFarrell. Then in 2003, he played a Navy SEAL in Tears of the Sunalongside Bruce Willis. He also appeared as a mob boss in 2 Fast 2Furious. He has since had several leading roles in Hollywood films,including Mel Gibson's Paparazzi and The Cave. In 2007, he starredwith Anthony Anderson in the FOX series K-Ville. That same year,Hauser starred in The Stone Angel adapted from a novel by MargaretLaurence. The film played in various festival circles and had alimited release in Canadian theaters in May 2008. During that sameyear, Cole filmed other indie productions such as Like DandelionDust from a novel by Karen Kingsbury, Tyler Perry's The Family ThatPreys and the CBS television pilot The Tower.