
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American character actor. He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The Mentalist (2008–2015).
Vince has also appeared on many television series. In 1997, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One.
Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 5, 1960. He attended Louisiana State University.
For most of his life, Vince has had a condition called nystagmus, the involuntary movement of the eye.
Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out. He had prominent supporting roles in several major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988), Lee Bowers in JFK (1991), and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool (1994). His first lead role was in James Mangold's independent film Heavy (1995), playing a sweet, silent, overweight cook harbouring a crush on a waitress played by Liv Tyler. He starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's film The Legend of 1900 (1998).
Vince often alternates between heroic and villainous characters. Vince played a Southern policeman in the neo-noir psychological horror film Angel Heart (1987), a kidnapper's assistant in the crime thriller film Trapped (2002), and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). He played a lovable, small-town pub owner in Beautiful Girls (1996); a mentally ill serial killer in the 2003 mystery thriller film Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold); a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty (2000); a gossip columnist in Simone (2002); and a dissolute Roman Catholic priest with psychic abilities in the 2005 supernatural horror film Constantine. He can also be seen in the dramatic film Love from Ground Zero (1998), playing as Walter. Other film titles include the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder (1990), the neo-noir film China Moon (1994), the action thriller film Homefront (2013), and the supernatural horror film The Devil's Candy (2015).
Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, In the Heat of the Night, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil. In 2011, he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. He also had a guest role playing a 600-lb. patient in Fox's medical drama House. From 2010 to 2014, he had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist. In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified. He took a comic role as "Jelly" in Flypaper. In 2018, he appeared on an episode of The Blacklist as Lawrence Devlin.
Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 12.015 |
Birthday | 1960-07-05 |
Place of Birth | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA |
Also Known As | پرویت تیلور وینس, |

2018

ASIA A
9/5
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2005

Constantine
7.1/7332
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1988

Mississippi Burning
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1991

JFK
7.601/2141
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1990

Jacob's Ladder
7.35/1674
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1989

K-9
6.1/975
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1998

The Legend of 1900
8.3/2280
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2003

Identity
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1987

Barfly
6.834/346
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1994

Nobody's Fool
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2007

When a Man Falls
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1999

Mumford
6.515/97
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1995

Heavy
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2002

Trapped
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2009

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6/418
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2009

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2007

Captivity
4.9/428
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2009

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6.1/421
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2011

The Smell of Success
5.5/21
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2011

Flypaper
6.4/757
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2012

Bending The Rules
5.5/69
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1997

The End of Violence
5.3/68
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1989

Homer and Eddie
5.6/50
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1987

Shy People
6.5/20
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1990

Fear
6.1/30
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2011

On the Inside
5.3/46
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2012

Butter
5.9/398
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2014

13 Sins
6.3/1109
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2013

The Grief Tourist
4.8/27
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1995

Under the Hula Moon
4/0
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1992

Till Death Us Do Part
6.7/3
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1998

Love from Ground Zero
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2005

Drop Dead Sexy
4.9/52
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2012

Brake
5.7/200
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2000

The Cell
6.269/1550
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2011

Creature
5.3/97
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Red Heat
6.229/1462
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2011

Drive Angry
5.532/1874
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Angel Heart
7.1/1558
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
5.3/315
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2013

Beautiful Creatures
6/2843
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The Devil's Candy
6.3/651
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1991

Dead in the Water
5.4/7
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1990

Wild at Heart
7.023/1673
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1996

Beautiful Girls
6.7/369
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2025

Superman
0/0
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1994

Natural Born Killers
7.061/3448
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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1997

A Further Gesture
4.7/9
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1997

Cold Around the Heart
5.167/15
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2002

13 Moons
5.5/22
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2000

Nurse Betty
6/398
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2002

S1m0ne
5.961/910
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2018

Gotti
5.292/609
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2005

Nobody Wants Your Film
1/1
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2003

L.A. Confidential
5.7/18
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2003

Monster
7.217/2350
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
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2018

59 Seconds
5.5/2
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2010

Mysterious Island
4.7/34
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Mysterious Island

2013

Homefront
6.94/3537
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Homefront

2018

Bird Box
6.8/10018
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Bird Box

1994

China Moon
6.1/128
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China Moon

1998

Doctor Dolittle
5.7/3084
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2008

The Echo
6.1/173
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1996

The Cottonwood
0/0
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1990

Come See the Paradise
6.2/55
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2021

Crime Story
4/26
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1991

Sweet Poison
4.8/4
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