1. Thomas Griffin Dunne is an American actor, director and producer.
22 Facts About Griffin Dunne
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Thomas Griffin Dunne was born on June 8,1955, in New York City.
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Griffin Dunne is the oldest child of Ellen Beatriz and Dominick Dunne.
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Griffin Dunne's father was born and raised in an Irish Catholic family, while his maternal grandfather was Irish-American and his maternal grandmother was from Sonora, Mexico.
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Griffin Dunne is the older brother of Alexander and Dominique Dunne.
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Griffin Dunne's mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims after Dominique's murder in 1982.
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Griffin Dunne's father was a journalist, producer, writer, and actor.
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Griffin Dunne is a nephew of writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion.
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Griffin Dunne was scheduled to perform in a school production of Othello when, on the eve of a performance, a teacher found him smoking marijuana.
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Griffin Dunne was expelled, and moved back to New York to pursue his acting interests.
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Griffin Dunne studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre under Sanford Meisner.
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Griffin Dunne began his professional acting career at age 19 with a small supporting role in The Other Side of the Mountain in 1975.
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Griffin Dunne has since appeared on both film and television, starring in An American Werewolf in London as Jack Goodman, Johnny Dangerously as Tommy Kelly, After Hours as Paul Hackett, Who's That Girl as Loudon Trott opposite Madonna, My Girl as Jake Bixler, Quiz Show as the Geritol Account Executive, Game 6 as Elliott Litvak, and I Like It Like That as Stephen Price.
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Griffin Dunne played Dr Vass, opposite Matthew McConaughey, in the Oscar-winning 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club.
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Griffin Dunne portrayed Tony Mink in the comedy Trust Me on TNT.
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In 2012, Griffin Dunne guest-starred as management consultant Marco Pelios in seven episodes of the premiere season of the Showtime TV series House of Lies.
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Griffin Dunne had a small part in the film, as Mark, a young doctor.
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For it, Griffin Dunne received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, along with producer Thom Colwell.
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Griffin Dunne produced and directed Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, a documentary about his aunt, author Joan Didion, whom Griffin Dunne interviews and appears with on screen.
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Griffin Dunne has written articles for New York Times Travel section, Details Magazine, Porter Magazine and has a Kindle Single collection of short stories on Amazon called Air Guitar.
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Griffin Dunne was married to American actress Carey Lowell from 1989 to 1995.
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Griffin Dunne was married to Anna Bingemann, an Australian stylist, from 2009 to 2010.