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Barry Pepper
Canadian-American actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Barry Robert Pepper (born April 4, 1970) is a Canadian-American actor. His best-known film roles include Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Corrections Officer Dean Stanton in The Green Mile (1999), Roger Maris in 61* (2001), Joseph L. Galloway in We Were Soldiers (2002), Charlie Halliday in The Snow Walker (2003), Mike Norton in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), Sergeant Michael Strank in Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Lucky Ned Pepper in True Grit (2010), DEA Agent Cooper in Snitch (2013), Vince in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and David Keller in Crawl (2019).
Among other accolades, Pepper has been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Genie Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Golden Globe Award. For his role as Robert F. Kennedy in the miniseries The Kennedys (2011), Pepper won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
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Early life and education
Pepper was born the youngest of three boys in Campbell River, British Columbia, the son of a lumberjack.[1] When he was five years old, his family set sail in a homemade yacht, navigating through the South Pacific islands for five years.[1][2] He was educated through correspondence courses and public schools in Polynesia.[2] His family encouraged him to entertain himself through improvisation and acting games while aboard the ship.[2] When the family had finished their travels, they returned to Canada, settling on Denman Island, which his mother's family had called home for five generations.[3] He graduated from Georges P. Vanier Secondary School in 1988.[3][2] Pepper attended Camosun College after receiving a scholarship for artistic achievement,[3] studying marketing and design.[2] He later moved to Vancouver, where he enrolled in acting classes and worked at White Spot. He spent four years studying, including at the Gastown Actors Studio, before landing a recurring role on the show Madison.[3]
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Pepper is perhaps best known for his role as the sniper Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan (1998). He also played David Pratt in Enemy of the State (1998) with Will Smith, portrayed Corrections Officer Dean Stanton in The Green Mile (1999), depicted Roger Maris in Billy Crystal's HBO film 61* (2001), appeared as journalist Joseph L. Galloway in We Were Soldiers (2002), and appeared as Frank Slaughtery in Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002). He played Charlie Halliday in The Snow Walker (2003), appeared as Dale Earnhardt in the ESPN produced film 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004), played Mike Norton in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), portrayed Sergeant Michael Strank in Flags of Our Fathers (2006), and played Dan Morris in the film Seven Pounds (2008) again with Will Smith. He also had roles in Casino Jack (2010) and the Coen brothers' True Grit (2010). Pepper provided the voice for Alex Mercer, the protagonist of the video game Prototype (2009) and the voice for Corporal Dunn, a character in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009).
Pepper won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance in Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000). He has stated that, had he known in advance he was going to win the award, he would have gladly accepted it in person.[4] He also appeared in Jagged Edge's music video for "Goodbye". In 2011, he starred as Robert F. Kennedy in the Canadian-American TV mini-series The Kennedys, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
In 2013, Pepper played DEA Agent Cooper in Snitch. In 2015, he appeared in The Maze Runner sequel, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, as Vince, "a survivalist who is one of the last remaining soldiers of a legendary unit called the Right Arm".[5] In 2018, Pepper reprised his role as Vince in Maze Runner: The Death Cure.[6]
In 2019, Pepper starred as Dave Keller in the horror film Crawl.[7]
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Personal life
Pepper is a naturalized United States citizen. He has one child, a daughter, with his wife Cindy.[8]
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