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Jim True-Frost is a Actor American born on 31 july 1966 at Greenwich (USA)

Jim True-Frost

Jim True-Frost
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Birth name Jim True
Nationality USA
Birth 31 july 1966 (57 years) at Greenwich (USA)

Jim True-Frost (born Jim True; July 31, 1966) is an American stage, television and screen actor. He is most known for his portrayal of Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski on all five seasons of the HBO program The Wire.

Biography

True-Frost graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. He has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago since 1989. Prior to that, he was a member of Remains Theater, co-founded by actor William L. Petersen (To Live and Die in L.A., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation). True-Frost appeared in the film Off the Map—with fellow Steppenwolf ensemble member Joan Allen, directed by Singles co-star Campbell Scott. He has performed on Broadway and as far away as Sierra Leone.

When he married lawyer and legal scholar Cora Frost in 1999, both changed their last names to True-Frost. Jim and his wife now reside in Syracuse, New York and have two children.

True-Frost appeared in 2008 as Brutus in the American Repertory Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, as well as Steppenwolf's Broadway run of August: Osage County, which won the Tony for Best Play.

Best films

Affliction (1998)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Jim True-Frost (9 films)

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Actor

The Conspirator, 2h3
Directed by Robert Redford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Crime
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Huston, Justin Long
Roles Brigadier General John F. Hartranft, commander of the Old Capitol Prison
Rating68% 3.4470153.4470153.4470153.4470153.447015
On April 14, 1865, the Civil War ends with the North's victory. Lawyer, and Union veteran Frederick Aiken, with his friends, William Thomas Hamilton and Nicholas Baker, celebrate. Aiken and his girlfriend Sarah Weston decide to take a walk. Later that same night, Southerner Lewis Payne unsuccessfully attempts to kill Secretary of State William Seward, only seriously wounding him. German immigrant and carriage repair business owner George Atzerodt is assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson but becomes afraid and runs away. Meanwhile, actor John Wilkes Booth, enters Ford's Theatre and sees his target, President Abraham Lincoln. Booth sneaks into the President's box and shoots Lincoln, mortally wounding him. Booth stabs diplomat and military officer Henry Rathbone who was a guest in Lincoln's box, and leaps onto the stage, shouting, "Sic Semper Tyrannis! The South is avenged!" before escaping. Everyone, including Aiken, Hamilton and Baker, watch in horror with the crowd as the unconscious President is taken to a nearby boarding house where he dies early the next morning.
Diminished Capacity
Directed by Terry Kinney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda, Jimmy Bennett, Louis C.K., Jim True-Frost
Roles Donnie Prince
Rating55% 2.7539752.7539752.7539752.7539752.753975
A newspaper editor (Broderick) suffering from memory loss after an accident takes a trip to a memorabilia expo with his Alzheimer's-impaired relative, Rollie (Alda), and his high school flame, Charlotte (Madsen). The plan is for Rollie to sell a rare baseball card, but a few people want the card.
Off the Map, 1h48
Directed by Campbell Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Allen, Amy Brenneman, Valentina de Angelis, Sam Elliott, J. K. Simmons, Jim True-Frost
Roles William Gibbs
Rating70% 3.5453353.5453353.5453353.5453353.545335
An eccentric family lives a separate existence from that of the outside world. The family continues to thrive and survive self-sufficiently. Bo uses her imagination and creativity to explore her world, while her mother Arlene holds the family together. Her father, however, has fallen into a deep depression. One day an IRS auditor comes to determine why they haven't filed their income tax for so long and does not believe they can live with so little. After falling into a fever he awakens a changed man and begins to paint, living with the family for the next eight years.
Affliction
Affliction (1998)
, 1h54
Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney, Willem Dafoe, Jim True-Frost
Roles Jack Hewitt
Rating68% 3.446063.446063.446063.446063.44606
The film begins with a voice-over narration by Rolfe Whitehouse, announcing the story of his brother Wade's "strange criminal behavior" and subsequent disappearance.
Normal Life, 1h41
Directed by John McNaughton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Luke Perry, Ashley Judd, Bruce Young, Kate Walsh, Penelope Milford, Jim True-Frost
Roles Mike Anderson
Rating61% 3.0989453.0989453.0989453.0989453.098945
Chris (Luke Perry), a young police officer, meets the attractive and sexy Pamela (Ashley Judd), and immediately falls in love with her. Even her drug and alcohol problems cannot affect his mad love for her, and they decide to marry. As the relationship continues, more problems arise. Their passionate love is accompanied by destructive fights, and Pam's emotional problems start to surface. She shows no respect for Chris's family members, who are very important to him. Pam is also manipulative and exploits Chris' love for her, leaving him to do all the chores and making him buy her expensive things until they are on the brink of bankruptcy.
The Hudsucker Proxy, 1h51
Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, Jim True-Frost, Bill Cobbs
Roles Buzz
Rating71% 3.5992353.5992353.5992353.5992353.599235
In December 1958, Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), a business college graduate from Muncie, Indiana, arrives in New York City looking for a job. He struggles due to lack of experience and becomes a mailroom clerk at Hudsucker Industries. Meanwhile, the company's founder and president, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), unexpectedly commits suicide during a business meeting by jumping out of a top-floor window. Afterwards, Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman), a ruthless member of the board of directors, learns Hudsucker's stock shares will be soon sold to the public, he mounts a scheme to buy the controlling interest in the company by temporarily depressing the stock price from hiring an incompetent president to replace Hudsucker.
Singles
Singles (1992)
, 1h39
Directed by Cameron Crowe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Jim True-Frost, Sheila Kelley
Roles David Bailey
Rating66% 3.3477253.3477253.3477253.3477253.347725
Singles centers on the lives of a group of young people, mostly in their 20s, living in an apartment block in Seattle, Washington, and is divided into chapters. It focuses on the course of two couples' rocky romances, as well as the love lives of their friends and associates. The film stars Bridget Fonda as Janet, a coffee-bar waitress fawning over Cliff, an aspiring, yet slightly aloof rock musician (Matt Dillon) of the fictional grunge/rock band Citizen Dick, Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott as Linda Powell and Steve Dunne, respectively - a couple wavering on whether to commit to each other, and Sheila Kelley as Debbie Hunt, who is trying to find Mr. Right - a man who would make an ideal romantic partner - by making a video to express her desire. The events of the film are set against the backdrop of the early 1990s grunge movement in Seattle.
Fat Man and Little Boy, 2h7
Directed by Roland Joffé
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Ron Vawter, Laura Dern
Roles Donald Hornig
Rating64% 3.247613.247613.247613.247613.24761
In September 1942, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers General Leslie Groves (Paul Newman) who oversaw construction of the Pentagon is assigned to head the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, to beat the Germans in building an atomic bomb.