Movies starring Brett Rice
Brett Rice was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the oldest of four children. He attended a number of schools until finally, he was sent to Marist Military Academy in Atlanta, after which he had a short spell in the Army. One day Brett went with a friend to the theater building to wait as he auditioned for a show. While he waited the director asked him if he wanted to audition. He landed a role and from that moment on lived, ate and drank the theater. For the next five years he went to every theater in Atlanta and auditioned for almost everything that came along. This included a TV pilot for � ...
show all Brett Rice was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the oldest of four children. He attended a number of schools until finally, he was sent to Marist Military Academy in Atlanta, after which he had a short spell in the Army. One day Brett went with a friend to the theater building to wait as he auditioned for a show. While he waited the director asked him if he wanted to audition. He landed a role and from that moment on lived, ate and drank the theater. For the next five years he went to every theater in Atlanta and auditioned for almost everything that came along. This included a TV pilot for ”Catlins, The” (1982) which led to a two year contract. He got a part in Bear, The (1984), with ‘Gary Busey’ (qv) and then a role in a TV movie called Poison Ivy (1985) (TV), with ‘Michael J. Fox’ (qv), ‘Adam Baldwin’ (qv) and ‘Nancy McKeon’ (qv). Work dried up until Brett started a fantastic run of luck in which he worked solidly thru the 90s. He played in due TV shows such as ”I'll Fly Away” (1991), ”In the Heat of the Night” (1988), ”Walker, Texas Ranger” (1993), and many more. Theatrical Films included Forrest Gump (1994), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Kalifornia (1993), Passenger 57 (1992), ”From the Earth to the Moon” (1998) (mini), Waterboy, The (1998) and most recently as a co-star in Remember the Titans (2000) in which he played Coach Tyrell opposite ‘Denzel Washington’ (qv) and ‘Will Patton’ (qv). Brett has a guest appearance on the television show, ”Sheena” (2000). The episode, ‘Stranded in the Jungle’ will be shown in 2002. Brett has over 75 credits for TV and Film, and at least that many credits for the stage. He has become a Councilor at Large with SAG to get more closely involved with the unusual politics and negotiations with producers in LA and NY.
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More an intense portrait of doomed romance than a serial-killer thriller, writer/director Patty Jenkins’s brutal biopic of prostitute-turned-multiple murderer Aileen Wuornos burrows deep into the woman’s psyche with the help of an Oscar-winning turn from Charlize Theron. While her physical transformation may have caught the Academy’s eye, Theron’s performance goes beyond the weight-gain and dental prosthetics, finding both compassion and coldness in Wuornos’s descent into homicidal mania. Aileen’s first kill is in self-defence, escaping from a “client”, but the impulse soon escalates into murder as she fights both to survive and to protect her burgeoning relationship with the naive outcast lesbian Selby (a superbly understated Christina Ricci). In other hands, this could have become overwrought melodrama, but Jenkins skilfully mines the humanity within the sensationalism to come up with something that is both tender and chilling — and ultimately heartbreaking.
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