Gary Basaraba
Known for ActingBorn 1959-03-16Edmonton, 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
Who's That Girl
1987 · as Shipping Clerk
Unfaithful
2002 · as Detective Mirojnick
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · as Detective Burns
Striptease
1996 · as Alberto
The Irishman
2019 · as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons
The Accountant
2016 · as Don
The Smurfs
2011 · as Hefty Smurf (voice)
The Smurfs 2
2013 · as Hefty Smurf (voice)
Sound of Freedom
2023 · as Earl Buchanan
Charlotte's Web
2006 · as Homer Zuckerman
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · as Grady Kilgore
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · as Andrew, Apostle
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · as Jerry Pollard, motorman
Suburbicon
2017 · as Uncle Mitch
Little Italy
2018 · as Vince
No Mercy
1986 · as Joe Collins
The War
1994 · as Dodge
K-9: P.I.
2002 · as Pete Timmons