Xander Berkeley

ACTOR, PRODUCER, MAKE_UP_DEPARTMENT

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Xander's father was a painter and his mother a school teacher who sewed, providing him with costumes (his preference over toys). School plays and Community Theater were next. An experimental theater troupe in the area (which was an offshoot from Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater in New York) took Xander under their wing when he was 16. He credits this group for shaping him as both a person and an actor, committed to taking risks and remaining open to the unknown. Xander went to Hampshire College, the progressive brainchild of Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts. He would continue in the theater at Hampshire, studying and doing plays at each of the other schools, all of which were there in the area.A move to New York after college brought him access to private teachers from the Royal Academy of the Arts, the Moscow Arts Theater and HB Studios. Later in Los Angeles, Xander would spend time with Lee Strasberg at The Actor's Studio during the last years of his life.Xander worked in Regional and Repertory Theaters in addition to off-Broadway while living in New York but, despite a classically trained theater background, he was increasingly drawn to the subtleties of film acting. A play, written by the great southern novelist Reynolds Price, called "Early Dark" had such a cinematic feel to it, that an agent saw the film acting potential in Xander and encouraged him to make the move out west.Soon Meine liebe Rabenmutter (1981) provided Xander with his film debut in the role of "Christopher Crawford", and simultaneously gave his career a slightly cultish twist. Alex Cox with Sid & Nancy (1986), James Cameron with Terminator 2: Tag der Abrechnung (1991), Bernard Rose with Candymans Fluch (1992), Todd Haynes with Safe (1995), Mike Figgis with Leaving Las Vegas - Liebe bis in den Tod (1995), Andrew Niccol with Gattaca (1997) all helped to further associate Xander as an actor in his own rather unusual category.Xander's choices were often determined by the opportunity to learn from directors he admired, certainly all those listed above fell into that category. Clint Eastwood with Rookie - Der Anfänger (1990), Ron Howard with Apollo 13 (1995), Rob Reiner with Eine Frage der Ehre (1992), Michael Mann with Heat (1995), Wolfgang Petersen with Air Force One (1997), Steven Spielberg with Amistad - Das Sklavenschiff (1997) are obvious examples of others Xander actively sought to work with and learn from.From obscure independent movies where Xander could play lead roles to the big budget studio movies where he might often play smaller character-driven parts, an education was taking place. Just as working with older directors like Michael Cacoyannis on The Cherry Orchard (1999) and Robert M. Young on Below the Belt (2004) (aka "Human Error") brought insights to ways of working that are being lost in pop cultures tendency to slide toward slickness. Not to mention bringing him to places like Bulgaria and China along the way.Perhaps because a life in the foreign services, or espionage was seen as a road not taken, living on location in foreign countries, working as an actor, has somewhat fulfilled the impulse. As early as 1987, a film took Xander to Nicaragua while the Contra War was taking place. It was during this three month shoot on the film Walker (1987) (starring Ed Harris) that Xander got an offer to do a film with his friend, director Jon Hess, in Chile for the following three months. Taking him straight from the revolutionary left-wing Sandanistas to Pinochet's fascist, right-wing regime.In 2001, an offer came in to play a part on a TV pilot called 24: Twenty Four (2001). It was another shady agent-type, and reluctant to repeat his performance from Air Force One (1997) as the turncoat secret serviceman, Xander almost passed on the job. Fortunately for him, he said yes. He met his future wife, Sarah Clarke during the first day of filming. His character, "George Mason", was just a guest star in the pilot, but the producers liked what Xander brought to it and continued to write more episodes for him. By the second season, it had become perhaps the most interesting, leveled character Xander had ever gotten to play. Sarah and Xander were married in 2002 and had their daughters, Olwyn in 2006 and Rowan in 2010.Other favorite roles of late have been "Arlen Pavich", the middle management dweeb, in Niki Caro's Kaltes Land (2005), and the Irish hooligan/railway foreman in David Von Ancken's Seraphim Falls (2006) and, more recently, "The King of Sodom" in Harold Ramis' Year One - Aller Anfang ist schwer (2009), "Sonny" in David Pomes' Cook County (2008), the recovering meth head coming out of prison to discover the life he had left (and destroyed), and crazy "Uncle Doug" in David Wike's Champions (2006) (aka "Out There"). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Mosaic

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Xander Berkeley on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1986 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Xander Berkeley movies released per year from 2008 till 2021.

Top Genres

Xander Berkeley works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 42% of Xander Berkeley movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Xander Berkeley worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Xander Berkeley has worked on is 6.3.

6.3 / 10

Xander Berkeley's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

The Man sets up shop in another diner. Here new clients, and some familiar ones, make deals with The Man. They choose to complete one task and report to The Man about their progress in exchange for one desire being fulfilled.

8.4/10109 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Everyone wants something. There is a mysterious figure who sits in the booth at the end, who you make a deal with to get what you want. You do the task or you don't - that is up to you, but...

8.2/1030 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Thriller
This Last Lonely Place (2014)

On his last night on the job, an unsuspecting Los Angeles cab driver gets roped into helping a wealthy investment banker cover up a brutal crime.

7.7/1085 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Nikita (2010)

A rogue assassin returns to take down the secret organization that trained her.

7.7/1060 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.

7.1/10119 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, best friends, psychopaths, politicians ...

7/1079 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab.

6.7/1093 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Horror,Thriller
Candyman (1992)

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

6.7/1099 min

Available in 10 platform(s).