Nick Chinlund
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Biography
Biography
Nick Chinlund was an aspiring athlete at Brown University with his sights on eventually playing in the NBA when his career was cut short by an injury during his freshman year. Afterwards, the New York native channeled his energy into acting. Chinlund is often cast, in mainstream films at least, as a gun-toting mercenary or smarmy bad guy. He got his start as Hatchett in the third installment of Mel Gibson's famed action franchise, "Lethal Weapon," and played one of a gang of escaped super villains in Jerry Bruckheimer's 1997 air-disaster thriller "Con Air." Chinlund also played a trigger-happy member of Denzel Washington's gang of corrupt cops in the award-winning police drama "Training Day." His involvement in films outside of the action genre has mostly been in independent productions. In 1997 he starred in and produced "A Brother's Kiss" in collaboration with his longtime friend, director Seth Zvi Rosenfeld. Since then, Chinlund has continued dividing his time between indie releases and mainstream films. He found himself once again behind the business end of an automatic weapon in the 2003 war film "Tears of the Sun" with Bruce Willis, and played a bounty hunter pursuing Vin Diesel in the sci-fi action flick "The Chronicles of Riddick." Often a supporting actor, Chinlund got the opportunity to play the lead in two solid indie films, as a troubled priest in "Sinner" and as an amnesiac accused of spying in the thriller "The Fifth Patient."
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Producer (Feature Film)
Misc. Crew (Feature Film)
Cast (TV Mini-Series)
Life Events
1988
Was an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts
1990
Film acting debut billed as Nicholas Chinlund in "The Ambulance"
1992
TV acting debut in the "Auto Erotica" episode of the Showtime series "Red Shoe Diaries"
1993
First mainstream feature, "Lethal Weapon 3"
1995
Starred opposite Mare Winningham in the USA Network thriller "Letter to My Killer"
1997
Breakthrough screen role in "Con Air"
1997
Co-starred in "A Brother's Kiss"
1997
Portrayed Frederic Remington in the TNT movie "Rough Riders"
2003
Appeared in the Bruce Willis thriller "Tears of the Sun"
2004
Cast as Toombs in "The Chronicles of Riddick", the sequel to the surprise sci-fi hit "Pitch Black"
2005
Starred in Martin Campbell's "The Legend of Zorro" with Antonio Banderas
2006
Cast opposite Milla Jovovich in the sci-fi thriller, "Ultraviolet"
