Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, his career rebounded in the 1990s after he overcame an addiction to drugs and an eating disorder. Some of his notable credits include
Breaking Away,
The Right Stuff,
Wyatt Earp,
The Rookie,
The Day After Tomorrow,
Traffic, Vantage Point,
Footloose,
Frequency,
The Parent Trap,
Yours, Mine & Ours and
Soul Surfer. For his role in
Far from Heaven (2002) he won the
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, the
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor and the
Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.