Actor
Pruitt Taylor Vince
July 5, 1960 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor. He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The Mentalist (2008–2015). Vince has also appeared on many television series. In 1997, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One. Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, 1960. He attended Louisiana State University. For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus, the involuntary movement of the eye. Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out.
Notable work
8.6Stranger Things (2016)
as Ray
8.1The Walking Dead (2010)
as Otis
6.8Bird Box (2018)
as Rick
7.2Constantine (2005)
as Father Hennessy
8.6House (2004)
as George
7.3Superman (2025)
as Pa Kent
8.4The Mentalist (2008)
as J.J. LaRoche
7.2Identity (2003)
as Malcolm Rivers
6.9Homefront (2013)
as Werks
7.5Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
as Grill
7Natural Born Killers (1994)
as Deputy Warden Kavanaugh
7.6The Blacklist (2013)
as Lawrence Devlin
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