Early life

Jason Gedrick was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Career

He began his career as an extra in films such as Bad Boys (1983) and Risky Business (1983). After roles in The Heavenly Kid (1985), Iron Eagle (1986), Promised Land (1987) with director Michael Hoffman, Iron Eagle II (1988 in an uncredited role for the first few minutes of the movie), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), cult classic Rooftops (1989), Backdraft (1991), and Crossing the Bridge (1992), Gedrick appeared in television series such as Class of '96 (1993) and Sweet Justice (1994).

In 1994, Gedrick starred in the film The Force with Yasmine Bleeth and Kim Delaney.

Gedrick starred in Steven Bochco's innovative 1995 series Murder One. The series followed the trial of Gedrick's character, bad-boy actor Neil Avedon, alleged to have murdered a 15-year-old girl. The series—which also starred such talent as Daniel Benzali, Patricia Clarkson, Mary McCormack, Dylan Baker, and Stanley Tucci, A second season was commissioned. Due to struggling ratings and network concerns, the new season featured several small cases rather than one big one. Anthony LaPaglia stepped in to replace the cast such as Benzali, Tucci and Gedrick, who had left, and the series was canceled midway through its second season.

Gedrick's next major project was the three-hour TV film The Third Twin, a 1997 thriller based on the best-selling 1996 novel by British writer Ken Follett. Gedrick plays a university employee accused of rape, whose friend later discovers he has a twin—and actually several more twins cloned by an evil millionaire university donor and biomedical technology CEO.

Gedrick next took roles in television series such as EZ Streets (1996), Falcone (2000) and The Beast (2001). None of which were major successes. In 1999, he guest starred on Ally McBeal as the "hot car wash guy". Also appearing in Mario Puzo's 1997 miniseries, The Last Don and in its sequel, The Last Don II. Gedrick returned to television screens as Tom Turcotte in 2002's Boomtown. The series, which also starred Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough was a moderate success, but ratings plummeted - particularly after the second season suffered a format change, and Boomtown was cancelled.

In 2003, Gedrick played Andrew Luster, the infamous rapist in a Lifetime movie based on his trial, A Date with Darkness. Gedrick was part of the cast of the 2006 NBC television series Windfall also starring Luke Perry and Gedrick's former Boomtown alumni, Lana Parrilla. In 2007, Gedrick again starred alongside Donnie Wahlberg in the A&E original movie Kings of South Beach. He was also the new love interest at Scavo's Pizzeria in Desperate Housewives in seasons 3 and 4 on ABC. In 2009, he appeared in Lie to Me. In 2011, he appeared in Necessary Roughness as Dr. J. D. Aldridge, a former grad school professor and possible love interest for series lead Callie Thorne. Gedrick also starred in the 2006 movie Hidden Places alongside Sydney Penney and Shirley Jones, a film produced by Hallmark Entertainment.

Gedrick was a member of the cast of the HBO series Luck, which ran for one season in 2012. Gedrick appears in a multi-episode arc playing the manager of a Miami-area gentlemen’s club that becomes linked to a high-profile murder case in season 7 of Dexter. Beginning in November 2012, Gedrick starred as Evan Farnsworth, a struggling professor at a prestigious Maine boarding school, in the Hallmark film The Wishing Tree. In late 2012, Gedrick appeared on an episode of NBC's Grimm. In 2015, Gedrick had a season-long arc as serial killer Raynard Waits in Amazon Prime's Bosch series, along with a recurring role as Liam in the WB's Beauty and the Beast. In 2016 Gedrick stars as estranged Det. Mark Hickman, ex-partner of Lt. Mike Tao on Major Crimes

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Massive Retaliation	Eric Briscoe
1985	The Zoo Gang	Hardin
1985	The Heavenly Kid	Lenny Barnes
1986	Iron Eagle	Doug Masters
1987	Promised Land	Davey Hancock
1988	Iron Eagle II	Doug Masters	(uncredited)
1989	Rooftops	T
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Martinez - Vietnam
1990	Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder	Peter Sherwood
1991	Backdraft	Tim Krizminski
1992	Crossing the Bridge	Tim Reese
1993	Class of '96	David Morrisey	17 episodes
1994-1995	Sweet Justice	Bailey Connors	22 episodes
1995-1996	Murder One	Neil Avedon	23 episodes
1995	Dare to Love	Patrick
1996	Power 98	John Price
1996-1997	EZ Streets	Danny Rooney	12 episodes
1997	Silent Cradle	Jay Mitchell
1997	The Third Twin	Steve Logan/Other Twins
2000	Falcone	Joseph D. Pistone/"Joe Falcone"	9 episodes
2001	The Outer Limits	Capitaine Parkerst	TV film
2001	Summer Catch	Mike Dunne
2001	One Eyed King	Dennis Reilly
2002-2003	Boomtown	Officer Tom Turcotte	24 episodes
2003	Strange Frequency 2	Vince Brava	TV film
2003	The Partners	Eddie	TV film
2003	A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster	Andrew Luster	TV film
2006	Hidden Places	Gabe Harper	TV film
2006	Jesus, Mary and Joey	Tony Cappucino
2006	Windfall	Cameron Walsh	13 episodes
2006	Rapid Fire	Tony	TV film
2008	Wisegal	Frank Russo	TV film
2008	Depth Charge	Raymond "Doc" Ellers	TV film
2008	The Christmas Choir	Peter Brockman	TV film
2009	Shannon's Rainbow	Eric
2009	Sand Serpents	Richard Stanley	TV film
2010	Sinatra Club	Sal
2011-2012	Luck	Jerry	9 episodes
2012	Dexter	George Novikov	10 episodes
2012	War Flowers	Louis McIntire
2012	The Wishing Tree	Professor Evan Farnsworth	TV film
2014	Skating to New York	Doug Demas
2014	How to Get Away with Murder	Gabriel Shaw	Episode: "Smile, or Go to Jail"
2015	Bosch	Raynard Waits	8 episodes
2015	Justified	Richard	Episode: "The Promise"
2015	Beauty & the Beast	Liam	5 episodes

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