Gary Basaraba
Acting
Born 1959-03-16
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.
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.
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Acting
59 credits
The Mentalist
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Grey's Anatomy
Law & Order
Criminal Minds
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Bones
Blue Bloods
Person of Interest
Castle
Mad Men
NYPD Blue
Everwood
Cold Case
Miami Vice
Las Vegas
Numb3rs
NCIS: New Orleans
Nip/Tuck
Madam Secretary
The Leftovers
Third Watch
Judging Amy
Justified
Unforgettable
Homicide: Life on the Street
Doom Patrol
Northern Exposure
Everybody Hates Chris
Early Edition
The Outer Limits
New York Undercover
Unfaithful
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martial Law
The Accountant
Family Law
The Irishman
Close to Home
The Smurfs
Forever
The Smurfs 2
Who's That Girl
Brooklyn South
Sound of Freedom
Boomtown
Charlotte's Web
Fried Green Tomatoes
Striptease
Chicago Justice
Swift Justice
The Last Temptation of Christ
Suburbicon
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Little Italy
No Mercy
American Animals
The War
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
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