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Patrick Breen

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Screenwriter, Actor
Biography:As a respected American supporting player in film, television, and theater who occasionally moonlights as a screenwriter, Patrick Breen first culled recognition in the American press in 1991. That spring, the then-30-year-old delivered a bravura performance as an emotionally damaged son in Jon Robin Baitz's disappointing play The Substance of Fire. Breen hit his zenith as a film actor during the mid-'90s, with turns in several memorable (if uneven) Hollywood movies. These included For Love or Money (1993), Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty (1995) and Men in Black (1997), and Carl Franklin's One True Thing (1998). Breen's generally nondescript, albeit pleasant, appearance enabled him to fill practically any role, from a doctor (in the Sonnenfeld picture) to Mr. Tweedy (in the Franklin film).

Breen first branched off into screenwriting just after the turn of the new millennium, with back-to-back indie... Full Biography

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Patrick Breen and Christina Hendricks
Patrick Breen and Christina Hendricks
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Christina Hendricks and Patrick Breen
Joan M. Garry, GLAAD Executive Director, Christina Hendricks and Patrick Breen
Patrick Breen and Christina Hendricks
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