Code Name: The Cleaner starring Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, and Cedric the Entertainer as FBI/CIA Secret Agent
Official Code Name: The Cleaner Pictures of Actor Will Patton, Best Actor Obie Movie Awards, Newport International Film Festival
Will Patton (winner of the award for Best Actor at the Newport International Film Festival): pictures gallery, photos and upcoming comedy movies pics
WILL PATTON
plays RILEY, a DART employee and cohort of Jake's (played by actor/comedian
Cedric the Entertainer
).
Patton has worked extensively in the theatre and in film. He was last seen starring with John Travolta and Thomas Jane in the Lions Gate feature based on Marvel Comic's The Punisher and he will be seen in the films Road House II and
Code Name: The Cleaner
sometime next year. He has also had memorable roles in such features as The Mothman Prophecies and Remember the Titans. His other feature credits include Armageddon, Gone In 60 Seconds, Entrapment and The Postman as well as Trixie, Breakfast Of Champions and Jesus's Son. Will was directed by Martin Scorsese in After Hours and Nicholas Roeg in Cold Heaven. He has starred in several independent films that have enjoyed success at the major film festivals. Some of them include The Rapture, In The Soup. The Paint Job, Toll Booth and The Spitfire Grill which won the Audience Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. In 1998, Patton won the award for Best Actor at the Newport International Film Festival for his work in OK Garage (aka All Revved Up).
Patton has blended appearances in these smaller pictures with major studio releases such as Inventing The Abbotts, The Client, Fled, Copycat, Desperately Seeking Susan, A Shock To The System, Everybody Wins and No Way Out. He also starred for two seasons in the highly acclaimed television series, The Agency on CBS. He was recently seen in Steven Speilberg's Into The West on TNT.
No stranger to the theatre, Patton played the leading role in Sam Shepard's 'A Lie of the Mind' and his performances in Richard Foreman's 'What Did He See' and Mr. Shepard's 'Fool For Love' earned him two prestigious Obie Awards as Best Actor. He starred in the world premier of Don DeLillo's play, 'Valparaiso' at the ART in Boston and he was also seen heading an ensemble cast in Denis Johnson's play, 'Shoppers Carried By Escalators Into The Flames' at the Vineyard Theatre in New York.
Cast: starring Lucy Liu, Cedric the Entertainer, Mark Dacascos and Yvonne Scio
distributed by New Line Cinema
