Dennis Quaid
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Full Name: Dennis William Quaid
Sex: Male
Birthdate: April 9, 1954
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Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
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Nationality: American
Race / Ethnicity: Dennis Quaid has Irish and Cajun ancestry.
Height: 6' 0" (1.83 m)
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Education: Dennis Quaid attended Pershing Middle School in Houston. He studied drama at Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and later in college, at the University of Houston, under drama coach Cecil Pickett. After his brother, actor Randy Quaid, was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Last Detail, he dropped out of the University of Houston before graduating and moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an acting career of his own.
Occupation: Actor. Aside from acting, Dennis Quaid is a musician and plays with his band the Sharks. Quaid also has a pilot's license and is a scratch golfer and, in 2005, was named as the top golfer among the "Hollywood set" by Golf Digest.
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Father: William Rudy Quaid (an electrician).
Mother: Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" Quaid (née Jordan) (a real estate agent).
Older Brother: Randy Quaid
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Cousin: Gene Autry
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- P. J. Soles (an actress) (married on Thanksgiving Day November 25, 1978 and divorced on January 23, 1983).
- Meg Ryan (married on on Valentine's Day February 14, 1991 and divorced on July 16, 2001).
Ex-Fiancee: Lea Thompson (an actress; met on the movie set of Jaws 3-D in 1983).
Son: Jack Henry Quaid (born to Meg Ryan on April 24, 1992).
Wife: Kimberly Kathryn Buffington (born on October 18, 1971 in Texas) (an Austin, Texas real estate agent) (married on Independence Day July 4, 2004).
Twins: Twins born via a gestational carrier on November 8, 2007 in Santa Monica, California. Their son Thomas Boone was born first at 8:26 a.m. and weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces (3.06 kg). Daughter Zoe Grace made her appearance two minutes later weighing in at 5 pounds, 9 ounces (2.52 kg). On November 20, 2007, hospital staff mistakenly gave Quaid's twelve-day-old twins a dosage of heparin 1,000 times the common dosage for infants. Their attorney said the newborns will "be fine now", but Quaid has filed a lawsuit against the drug manufacturer, Baxter Healthcare, claiming that packaging for the two doses of heparin are not different enough.
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Filmography
Crazy Mama (1975) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) September 30, 1955 (1977) Are You in the House Alone?, (1978) Our Winning Season (1978) The Seniors (1978) Breaking Away (1979) The Long Riders (1980) Gorp (1980) All Night Long (1981) Caveman (1981) The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981) Stripes (1981) Tough Enough (1983) Jaws 3-D (1983) The Right Stuff (1983) Dreamscape (1984) Enemy Mine (1985) The Big Easy (1987) Innerspace (1987) Suspect (1987) D.O.A. (1988) Everybody's All-American (1988) Great Balls of Fire! (1989) Come See The Paradise (1990) Postcards from the Edge (1990) Wilder Napalm (1993) Undercover Blues (1993) Flesh and Bone (1993) A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) Wyatt Earp (1994) Something to Talk About (1995) Dragonheart (1996) Gang Related (1997) Switchback (1997) Savior (1998) The Parent Trap (1998) Playing by Heart (1998) Any Given Sunday (1999) Frequency (2000) Traffic (2000) Dinner With Friends (2000) The Rookie (2002) Far from Heaven (2002) Cold Creek Manor (2003) The Alamo (2004) The Day After Tomorrow (2004) In Good Company (2004) Flight of the Phoenix (2004) Yours, Mine and Ours (2005) American Dreamz (2006) Vantage Point (2008) Smart People (2008) Terra (2008) (voice) The Express (2008) The Horsemen (2008) Shame on You (2008) G.I. Joe (2009)
