Early life

Patric was born in Queens, New York, and is the son of Academy Award-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller (born John Anthony Miller, Jr.) and actress Linda Miller (born Linda Mae Gleason). His maternal grandfather was actor/comedian Jackie Gleason. His half-brother is actor Joshua John Miller. His ancestry is mostly Irish, with some German.

Growing up in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, he attended Catholic schools such as Cavallini Middle School and the all-boys Salesian Roman Catholic Don Bosco Preparatory High School (Ramsey, New Jersey). In California, he attended Saint Monica Catholic High School (Santa Monica, California). He appeared in high school productions of Dracula and Grease.

Career

After graduation, he was cast in the television drama Toughlove with Bruce Dern. The following year, Patric was cast in Solarbabies alongside Peter DeLuise, Jami Gertz, Lukas Haas, James LeGros and Adrian Pasdar. Within a few years, Patric would reunite with Gertz in The Lost Boys and After Dark, My Sweet with Dern. He co-starred with George Dzundza and Stephen Baldwin in The Beast.

In 1993, he starred alongside Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood in the movie Geronimo: An American Legend.

His scenes in The Thin Red Line were cut before the film's release. He appeared in the Alec Baldwin film The Devil and Daniel Webster, which was shot in 2001, and released in late 2007 as Shortcut to Happiness, but turned down the lead role in The Firm (1993), which went to Tom Cruise. He garnered excellent reviews for his performance as an undercover narcotics officer in Narc (2002).

In 2005, Patric appeared on Broadway as "Brick" in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opposite starred Ashley Judd, Ned Beatty and Margo Martindale.

He next appeared on Broadway opposite Brian Cox, Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherland and Jim Gaffigan in a revival of his father Jason Miller's play, That Championship Season, which began previews on February 9, 2011 and closed on May 29, 2011. The play (written by Jason Miller) debuted in 1972, and won, among other awards, the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award.

In 2012, he began filming the Civil War film, Copperhead, but several weeks into the shoot, he was removed from the project by the director, Ronald F. Maxwell for "failing to take direction". His replacement was Billy Campbell.

Personal life

Patric was romantically involved with Denial co-star Robin Wright, before he began dating actress Julia Roberts days after she canceled her wedding to Kiefer Sutherland in June 1991. Patric dated Danielle Schreiber off and on for approximately 10 years. During the relationship they conceived a son through in vitro fertilization. Patric and Schreiber separated in May 2012. Schieber's attorneys argued that, under California law, Patric was a sperm donor as Schreiber and Patric had not married and the conception of the child was by artificial means, and therefore Patric has no custody rights to the son. Patric is currently pursuing changes to the law that bars his parental rights. He then sued for parental rights over the child, but lost the case at the trial court level. The Court of Appeal of California, however, also ruled that the CA Family Code did not preclude him from establishing that he was presumed a parent based on his post birth conduct.

His case was sent back down to the trial court level and in late 2014 he was recognized legally as the father of his son, the court granting him parential rights. Following his initial loss in trial court, he lobbied the California legislature to give parental rights to sperm donors.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	Solarbabies	Jason	Alternative title: Solar Warriors
1987	The Lost Boys	Michael Emerson
1988	The Beast	Koverchenko	Alternative title: The Beast of War
1990	Denial	Michael	Alternative title: Loon
	After Dark, My Sweet	Kevin 'Kid' Collins
	Frankenstein Unbound	Lord George Gordon Byron
1991	Rush	Jim Raynor	1991
1993	Geronimo: An American Legend	1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood
1995	The Journey of August King	August King
1996	Sleepers	Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra
1997	Speed 2: Cruise Control	Officer Alex Shaw
	Incognito	Harry Donovan
1998	Your Friends & Neighbors	Cary
2002	Narc	Nick Tellis
	Three Days of Rain
2004	The Alamo	Col. James Bowie
2006	Walker Payne	Walker Payne
2007	Shortcut to Happiness	Ray	Alternative title: The Devil and Daniel Webster
	Expired	Jay
	In the Valley of Elah	Lt. Kirklander
2008	Downloading Nancy	Louis
2009	My Sister's Keeper	Brian Fitzgerald
2010	The Losers	Max
2011	Keyhole	Ulysses Pick
2011	Tilda	Andrew Brown
2013	The Outsider	Detective Klein
2013	Cavemen	Jack Bartlett
2015	The Abandoned	Cooper
2014	Rise of the Lonestar Ranger	Kip Duane	Alternative title: The Last Duane
2014	The Prince	Paul
2016	The Yellow Birds	Capt. Anderson

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Toughlove	Gary Charters	TV-Movie
1990	Teach 109	Teach 109	TV Short film
1994	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: Jason Patric/Blind Melon
2005	Night Live: The Best of David Spade	Kevin	TV-special
2008	Entourage	Himself	Episode: Pie
2016	Wayward Pines	Dr. Theo Yedlin	TV series

Awards and nominations

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

• 1998: Won, "Best Supporting Actor" - Your Friends & Neighbors

Online Film Critics Society Awards

• 1999: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor" - Your Friends & Neighbors

PRISM Awards

• 2003: Nominated, "Best Performance in a Theatrical Feature Film" - Narc

Golden Raspberry Award

• 1998: Nominated, "Worst Screen Couple" - Speed 2: Cruise Control (shared w/Sandra Bullock)

Satellite Award

• 1999: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Motion Picture" - Your Friends & Neighbors

Stockholm International Film Festival

• 2007: Won, "Best Actor" - Expired

Western Heritage Awards

• 1994: Won, "Best Theatrical Motion Picture" - Geronimo: An American Legend

Charities

Jason Patric supports the following charitable cause: Smoking & Smoking-Related Illnesses.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]