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| Nicholas Chinlund (born November 18, 1961 in New York City) is an American actor. Nick attended the Friends Seminary in Lower Manhattan. With dreams of pursuing a career in basketball at Brown University and majoring in history. Chinlund was sidelined when he had a shoulder injury and had to have it operated on. The result is a two inch scar on his left shoulder. Having largely been cast in small roles on episodic television, Chinlund came to prominence when he guest starred on The X-Files second season episode Irresistible playing the serial killer Donnie Pfaster. In recent years, Chinlund has been seen in several independent projects, notably A Brother's Kiss (1997). He also served as the executive producer of the film, which was directed by childhood friend Seth Zvi Rosenfeld. A Brother's Kiss was filmed in and around the neighbourhood where Chinlund and Rosenfeld grew up. The film tells the story of two brothers, Lex (Chinlund) and Mick (Michael Raynor), who grow up in the hard streets of New York. Chinlund continued in his long vein of independent features with roles in Chutney Popcorn (1999), Amy's Orgasm (2001), Goodnight Joseph Parker (2004) and Sinner (2007). Recently, Chinlund starred in a few big screen movies, usually as the villain. They include: Tears of the Sun (2003) with Bruce Willis, Con Air (1997) with Nicholas Cage, The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) with Vin Diesel and directed by David Twohy, who also directed Chinlund in the underwater thriller Below (2002), and Ultraviolet (2006) with Milla Jovovich. He also reprised his X-Files role as Donnie Pfaster for a seventh season episode called Orison. Chinlund was also in Training Day with Denzel Washington, Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Legend of Zorro with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. He has also made guest appearances in the long-running TV drama series, Law & Order, as well as in its spinoff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. As with his film roles, he played villainous roles in those two shows, most notably as an unethical journalist in the original Law & Order, and as an ambulance chasing attorney Barry Peck also in Law & Order" episode titled Endurance. |
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