1. Frank Theodore Levine was born on May 29,1957 and is an American actor.
13 Facts About Ted Levine
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Ted Levine is best known for his roles as Jame Gumb in the film The Silence of the Lambs and Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series Monk.
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Ted Levine was born in Bellaire, Ohio, the son of Charlotte Virginia and Milton Dmitri Ted Levine, who were both doctors and members of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Ted Levine's father was of Russian-Jewish descent and his mother had Welsh and Native American ancestry.
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Ted Levine became a fixture in the Chicago theatre scene and joined the Remains Theatre which was co-founded by Gary Cole and William Petersen.
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Ted Levine was gradually able to branch out into other types of roles, such as a member of Al Pacino's police unit in Heat, and astronaut Alan Shepard in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon.
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In 2001, Ted Levine performed as Paul Walker's police superior Sergeant Tanner in The Fast and the Furious.
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Ted Levine had an uncredited role as the voice of sociopathic trucker "Rusty Nail" in Joy Ride, starring Walker.
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Ted Levine played Detective Sam Nico in the 2003 film Wonderland, based on the gruesome murders in the Hollywood Hills.
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Ted Levine appeared as a psychiatrist at a mental institution in Wonderland, an unrelated 2000 TV series of the same name that aired briefly on ABC.
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Ted Levine appeared as a patriarch whose family takes a turn for the worse in the remake of The Hills Have Eyes.
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In 2018, Ted Levine co-starred in the sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, as hunter Ken Wheatley.
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Ted Levine has two children: a son with girlfriend Kim Phillips, and a daughter.