Gary Basaraba
Actor
- Born
- March 16, 1959 (age 67) · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Gary Basaraba (born March 16, 1959) is a Canadian actor best known for playing American police officers. He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and Officer Ray Heckler on Boomtown.
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According to the DVD commentary for the first season of the police drama Boomtown, he did most of his driving stunts in the series and he made sure he accurately portrayed police procedures.
Basaraba played Heywood Broun, one of the greatest American journalists of the 20th Century, in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle in 1994. He played Sheriff Grady Kilgore in Fried Green Tomatoes. He also played Saint Andrew in The Last Temptation of Christ, and had a role in Sweet Dreams.
Basaraba played Homer Zuckerman in the remake of Charlotte's Web. Basaraba also portrayed the father, Jack Grainger, in One Magic Christmas, opposite Mary Steenburgen. Since 2007, he has appeared in the Canadian television series Mixed Blessings.
Basaraba has also made three appearances in the Law & Order franchise, as a bartender in the original series titled "Point of View", as a corrections officer in the Law and Order episode "The Brotherhood" in 2004 and in the fifth season of SVU.
It has been announced that Basaraba will be the voice of Hefty Smurf in the live-action/CG family film The Smurfs.
Known for
The Irishman
November 1, 2019
The Accountant
October 13, 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon
October 18, 2023
The Smurfs
July 29, 2011
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
June 10, 2009
Sound of Freedom
July 3, 2023
The Smurfs 2
July 30, 2013
Suburbicon
October 26, 2017
Unfaithful
May 10, 2002
Fried Green Tomatoes
December 27, 1991
Charlotte's Web
December 7, 2006
American Animals
June 1, 2018
Acting43
- 2023Killers of the Flower Moon as Detective Burns
- 2023Sound of Freedom as Earl Buchanan
- 2019The Irishman as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons
- 2018Little Italy as Vince
- 2018American Animals as Warren Lipka Senior
- 2017Suburbicon as Uncle Mitch
- 2016The Accountant as Don
- 2016Dallas, Sunday Morning as Jack Ruby
- 2013The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as Hefty Smurf (voice)
- 2013The Smurfs 2