The grandson of character actor and frequent John Wayne comic sidekick Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Clifton Collins Jr. was born on June 16, 1970, in Los Angeles. His early career consisted of stereotypical roles as struggling working-class Latinos and urban thugs.Working to break out of this typecasting, Collins eventually gained greater recognition in a role opposite Samuel L. Jackson in 1997's One Eight Seven. He went on to play a variety of characters in films including The Replacement Killers, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, Tigerland, Traffic and Mind Hunters.
Television work has included appearances on "NYPD Blue," "The Twilight Zone," "Resurrection Blvd." and "Alias." In 2005, Collins gave a critically acclaimed performance as the object of Truman Capote's obsession in the multiple Oscar-winning film Capote, and in 2006, he received an Emmy nod for his work on the FX series "Thief."
The Perfect GameA seemingly impossible dream of playing baseball for the red, white and blue becomes reality for a group of youngsters from an impoverished Mexican city in this poignant drama based on actual events. After coaxing ex-player Cesar (Clifton Collins Jr.) to coach them, Angel Macias (Jake T. Austin) and... Read More
Mind HuntersSequestered on a remote island, a training program for a nefarious FBI division called the Mindhunters is in full swing. These handpicked agents are an advanced psychological profiling group adept at cornering serial killers. But when it's discovered that one of the agents is actually a serial... Read More
DirtyAfter spending years as a member of a corrupt inner-city police force, Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) is ready to make a break and start clean. But when a dirty superior (Cole Hauser) asks him and his partner (Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.) to retrieve a bag of confiscated drugs from lockup... Read More
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler MurdersIn writer-director Chris Fisher's unsettling thriller based on true events, tenacious psychiatrist Samantha Stone (Brittany Daniel) faces the intimidating task of interviewing prisoner Kenneth Bianchi (Clifton Collins Jr.), better known as the Hillside Strangler. Doing what comes naturally, Samantha... Read More
The Experiment (2010) | R | |
Brothers (2009) | R | |
The Perfect Game (2009) | PG | |
Extract (2009) | R | |
Crank 2: High Voltage (2009) | R | |
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Under Still Waters (2008) | NR | |
Sunshine Cleaning (2008) | R | |
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Masters of Science Fiction (2007) | NR | |
Thief (2006) | NR | |
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Life of the Party (2005) | R | |
Capote (2005) | R | |
Dirty (2005) | R | |
Mind Hunters (2004) | R | |
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I Witness (2003) | R | |
Undefeated (2003) | NR | |
The Rules of Attraction (2002) | R | |
Road Dogz (2002) | R | |
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Tigerland (2000) | R | |
Resurrection Blvd.: Season 1 (2000) | TV-14 | |
My Sweet Killer (1999) | NR | |
The Replacement Killers (1998) | R | |
The Stoned Age (1994) | R | |
Sworn to Vengeance (1993) | NR | |
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