Jeff Fahey

Jeff Fahey
Actor(s)	Fahey promoting Grindhouse
Character(s)	Frank Lapidus
Date of Birth	November 29, 1952 (age 71)
Origin	Olean, NY, USA
IMDB	IMDb profile

Jeff Fahey plays Frank Lapidus.

Background

• Appered in the episode "When Irish Eyes are Crying" in the third season of the hit TV-series Miami Vice as an arms dealer who blows up Crockett's memorable Ferrari.
• In 2007 we could see Fahey in the blockbuster movie Planet Terror as the charismatic restaurant owner J.T. The film also featured Naveen Andrews and was released in a double-bill as Grindhouse with the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof, which featured fellow Season 4 newcomer Zoë Bell.
• He's been an active actor for 26 years, and appeared in a number of TV-series; One Life to Live, Aventures dans le Grand Nord, The Marshal and Nash Bridges, which was created by Carlton Cuse.
• His credits include over 70 films, mostly action.
• Among his most prominent film roles is the title character in the modest cult film The Lawnmower Man which starred Pierce Brosnan. In it, Fahey plays a mentally handicapped landscaper named Jobe. Jobe acquires superior intelligence and becomes megalomaniac after a researcher (Brosnan) uses him as a test case for experiments with virtual reality. The research project is directed by a mysterious agency called The Shop. The movie, Hollywood's first ever treatment of virtual reality, was purportedly based on a Stephen King story, although King successfully sued to have his name removed from the film.
• When not busy acting, he travels to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he has been supporting an orphange for several years.

Filmography

Jeff Fahey as Eddie Kaye in "Miami Vice"

Feature films

Lawnmowerman Grindhouse: Planet Terror

Television

• Miami Vice , as Eddie Kaye,

Media appearances

• February 12, 2008 - E! Online [1]

Trivia

• Have been an active ballet dancer.
• He has 12 brothers and sisters.