Date of Birth

5 December 1979, Harlingen, Texas, USA

Birth Name

Nicolas Kent Stahl

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini Biography

Nick Stahl was born in Harlingen, Texas on December 5, 1979. After his mother, Dona, took him to see a children's play at the age of 4, Nick confidently declared that acting would be his future. Commericals and community plays followed, two television movies were also released in the early 90s. The breakthrough he needed came next when he starred alongside Mel Gibson, who hand-selected Nick for the role, in The Man Without a Face (1993). Nick played Chuck, the little boy who befriends a stranger that was disfigured in an accident. Unfortunately, his follow up films weren't much success and he slowly disappeared from the acting scene. All that changed in 1998 when he starred in two major films, Disturbing Behavior (1998) and The Thin Red Line (1998). Both films had a modest success at the box- office.

Trivia

Has two older sisters, Bonny and Emily.

Lost out to Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses (2000).

Among his favorite actors are Jack Lemmon and Vanessa Redgrave.

Enjoys fishing, crossword puzzles and watching boxing.

Beat out Shane West and Jake Gyllenhaal for his role in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

Attended the Force of Nature Concert for Tsunami Aid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March 2005. Other celebrity guests included Wyclef Jean, Esai Morales, Paula Abdul and Carmen Electra.

Personal Quotes

I try to avoid the sweet-ass roles.

If I had some fake tanner, I'd like to play 'Ernesto 'Che' Guevara' . I think I kind of look like him except for my skin tone. He's one of my idols.

I was an escapist, the guy who wanted to get out of school and out of the suburbs...Acting saved me.

For Sin City (2005) the director wanted me to talk in a certain voice for this character. So I left my audition on an answering machine. It worked.

I've always chosen the movies and roles that I do solely by the content. That's what I've always tried to do. Something like T3 was so unexpected for me, and was not something I can honestly say that I expected to be doing, given the films I'd been in before. I think that the scale of a movie and the budget a lot of times determines the quality. Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking. I want to keep doing that for the future and choose projects based on the content and the role, and how good those are. And I think the budget of movie to me is somewhat secondary. - On his career choices.

Where Are They Now

(April 2002) Filming Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

(November 2003) Major role in HBO's _"Carnivále" (2003)_.

~ Updated: 2008-09-02 ~