Olympus Has Fallen Lands Cole Hauser
July 9th, 2012
The actor will play one of the Secret Service agents guarding the President of the United States in director Antoine Fuqua's thriller.
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- Birth Date:March 22nd, 1975 - Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Credits: Acting
Full Bio
After making his film debut alongside a cast of future stars, Cole Hauser made his own mark as a TV and indie film actor in the 1990s. Raised in Santa Barbara, Hauser got hooked on acting in junior high. Shortly after he moved to Los Angeles at age 15 to pursue his chosen career, Hauser was cast in the prep school anti-Semitism drama School Ties (1992) along with up-and-comers Brendan Fraser, Chris O'Donnell, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. After this auspicious beginning, Hauser became part of an equally noteworthy ensemble of young stars-to-be in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993), appeared in the NBC TV movie A Matter of Justice (1993), played a skinhead in John Singleton's college drama Higher Learning (1995), and starred as an abusive boyfriend in All Over Me (1997). Hauser was cast in the lead role in the ABC series High Incident in 1996, but the show lasted only two seasons. Following a supporting role as one of Damon and Affleck's Boston cronies in their breakthrough hit Good Will Hunting (1997), Hauser played a small part in Stephen Frears' little seen modern Western The Hi-Lo Country (1998) and scored a hit as one of the marooned travelers battling mutant aliens in the sci-fi sleeper Pitch Black (2000).
After reuniting with his Tigerland (2000) co-star Colin Farrell in the box office failure Hart's War (2002), Hauser gained more notice for his supporting role later that year in the women's melodrama White Oleander (2002). Though he only appeared in a few scenes, Hauser's kindly and sexy young foster dad Ray easily caught the eye of the audience as well as troubled foster teen Alison Lohman. Returning to more testosterone-friendly work, Hauser subsequently co-starred with Hart's War officer Bruce Willis in Antoine Fuqua's action thriller Man of War (2003), and got behind the nitro-charged wheel for the sequel The Fast and the Furious 2 (2003). He continued to work in little-seen fare like Paparazzi and The Cave, but did score a part as one of Vince Vaughn's brothers in the aptly titled comedy The Break-Up. Hauser's father is actor Wings Hauser. ~ Lucia Bozzola
After reuniting with his Tigerland (2000) co-star Colin Farrell in the box office failure Hart's War (2002), Hauser gained more notice for his supporting role later that year in the women's melodrama White Oleander (2002). Though he only appeared in a few scenes, Hauser's kindly and sexy young foster dad Ray easily caught the eye of the audience as well as troubled foster teen Alison Lohman. Returning to more testosterone-friendly work, Hauser subsequently co-starred with Hart's War officer Bruce Willis in Antoine Fuqua's action thriller Man of War (2003), and got behind the nitro-charged wheel for the sequel The Fast and the Furious 2 (2003). He continued to work in little-seen fare like Paparazzi and The Cave, but did score a part as one of Vince Vaughn's brothers in the aptly titled comedy The Break-Up. Hauser's father is actor Wings Hauser. ~ Lucia Bozzola
ACTING CREDITS
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013) ...Roma
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) ...Collins
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Assassins Run (2013) ...Borris
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Dead Drop (2013) ...Dwight (rumored)
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ChaseTV (18 episodes)-
Annie...Jimmy Godfrey
May 21, 2011 -
The Man at the Altar...Jimmy Godfrey
May 14, 2011 -
Roundup...Jimmy Godfrey
May 7, 2011 -
Seven Years...Jimmy Godfrey
Apr 30, 2011 -
Father Figure...Jimmy Godfrey
Apr 23, 2011 -
Narco: Part 2...Jimmy Godfrey
Jan 26, 2011
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Like Dandelion Dust (2010) ...Jack Campbell
HEADLINES
A Good Day to Die Hard Gets Cole Hauser as It's Villain
May 9th, 2012The fifth installment of the action franchise will have the actor playing a villain named Collins.EXCLUSIVE: The Hit List Clip
May 4th, 2011Cuba Gooding Jr. and Cole Hauser star in this thriller about a mysterious assassin who kills the five enemies of a stranger.Kelli Giddish and Cole Hauser Talk Chase
September 20th, 2010Executive producer Jennifer Johnson also discusses this new NBC action series about a federal marshall.