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Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor. He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The Mentalist (2008–2015). Vince has also appeared on many television series. In 1997, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One. Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, 1960. He attended Louisiana State University. For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus, the involuntary movement of the eye. Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out. He had prominent supporting roles in several major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988), Lee Bowers in JFK (1991), and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool (1994). His first lead role was in James Mangold's independent film Heavy (1995), playing a sweet, silent, overweight cook harbouring a crush on a waitress played by Liv Tyler. He starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's film The Legend of 1900 (1998). Vince often alternates between heroic and villainous characters. Vince played a Southern policeman in the neo-noir psychological horror film Angel Heart (1987), a kidnapper's assistant in the crime thriller film Trapped (2002), and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). He played a lovable, small-town pub owner in Beautiful Girls (1996); a mentally ill serial killer in the 2003 mystery thriller film Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold); a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty (2000); a gossip columnist in Simone (2002); and a dissolute Roman Catholic priest with psychic abilities in the 2005 supernatural horror film Constantine. He can also be seen in the dramatic film Love from Ground Zero (1998), playing as Walter. Other film titles include the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder (1990), the neo-noir film China Moon (1994), the action thriller film Homefront (2013), and the supernatural horror film The Devil's Candy (2015). Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, In the Heat of the Night, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil. In 2011, he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. He also had a guest role playing a 600-lb. patient in Fox's medical drama House. From 2010 to 2014, he had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist. In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified. He took a comic role as "Jelly" in Flypaper. In 2018, he appeared on an episode of The Blacklist as Lawrence Devlin. Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One.
Superman
as Pa Kent
Lady in the Lake
as Bob Bauer
Crime Story
as Tommy
Bird Box
as Rick
ASIA A
as Noah
Gotti
as Angelo Ruggiero
59 Seconds
as Robert
The Devil's Candy
as Ray
Stranger Things
as Ray
Heroes Reborn
as Casper Abraham
13 Sins
as Vogler
Homefront
as Werks
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
as Grill
The Blacklist
as Lawrence Devlin
The Grief Tourist
as Carl Marznap
Broken Blood
as Earl Wayne
Beautiful Creatures
as Mr. Lee
Butter
as Ned Eaten
Brake
as Driver / Boss Terrorist (voice)
Bending The Rules
as Happy
Mysterious Island
as Gideon Spilett
On the Inside
as Ben Marshal
Creature
as Grover
The Smell of Success
as Cleveland Clod
Flypaper
as Jelly
Drive Angry
as Roy
The Cape
as Goggles
The Walking Dead
as Otis
Hawaii Five-0
as Richard Branch
Justified
as Glen Fogle
Leaves of Grass
as Big Joe Sharpe
Don McKay
as Mel
In the Electric Mist
as Lou Girard
The Mentalist
as J.J. LaRoche
True Blood
as Finn
The Echo
as Joseph
Canterbury's Law
Captivity
as Ben Dexter
When A Man Falls In The Forest
as Travis Gilmore
Bones
as Haze Jackson
Nobody Wants Your Film
as Self
Drop Dead Sexy
as Spider
Constantine
as Father Hennessy
Medium
as Peter Winant
House
as George
Deadwood
as Mose Manuel
Monster
as Gene / Stuttering "John"
The Handler
L.A. Confidential
as Sid Hudgens
Identity
as Malcolm Rivers
Trapped
as Marvin
13 Moons
as Owen
S1m0ne
as Max Sayer
Alias
as Campbell / Schapker
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Marty Gleason
Nurse Betty
as Ballard
The Cell
as Dr. Reid
Mumford
as Henry Follett
The Legend of 1900
as Max Tooney
Love from Ground Zero
as Walter
