Jeff Fahey has portrayed Captain Frank Lapidus on the ABC series Lost and the title role of Deputy Marshal Winston MacBride on The Marshal.
17 Facts About Jeff Fahey
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Jeff Fahey's mother, Jane, was a homemaker, and his father, Frank Fahey, worked at a clothing store.
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Jeff Fahey was raised in Buffalo, New York, from the age of ten and attended Father Baker's high school there.
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Jeff Fahey left home at the age of 17, subsequently hitchhiking to Alaska.
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Jeff Fahey later backpacked through Europe, and worked on an Israeli kibbutz.
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Jeff Fahey started performing when he won a full scholarship to dance at the Joffrey Ballet School at the age of 25.
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Jeff Fahey performed in theaters across the United States and on Broadway.
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Jeff Fahey landed his first major role on television playing Gary Corelli on the soap opera, One Life to Live.
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That same year, Jeff Fahey guest starred on the Season 3 premiere of Miami Vice as gun dealer Eddie Kaye, famously destroying Detective Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona.
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In 1990, Jeff Fahey starred in Impulse and White Hunter Black Heart, respectively directed by feuding ex-couple Sondra Locke and Clint Eastwood.
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In 1995, Jeff Fahey was the lead in the Trimark Pictures adventure film Eye of the Wolf, directed by Arnaud Selignac, based on the book "KAZAN" by James Oliver Curwood.
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Jeff Fahey appeared as daredevil Dutch the Clutch in an episode of Psych at the beginning of the third season of the show.
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Jeff Fahey played Frank Lapidus, the airplane and helicopter pilot of the research team sent to the island in Lost, as a recurring character in the fourth and fifth seasons, and as a regular character in the sixth season.
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Jeff Fahey played the part of the last juror in the story to change his vote to not guilty.
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In 2015, Jeff Fahey starred in History Channel's mini-series Texas Rising as Tom Rusk, the Secretary of War for the new Republic of Texas who fought alongside General Sam Houston.
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In 2017, Jeff Fahey joined the UK tour of Bill Kenwright's production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man where he plays the part of US Presidential hopeful Joseph Cantwell against political rival William Russell, played by Martin Shaw.
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In 2006 and 2007, Jeff Fahey spent time in Afghanistan assisting the newly established American University of Afghanistan, and launching a project to assist orphans in Kabul.