- Born
- Birth nameJason Deneen Beghe
- Height5′ 10¾″ (1.80 m)
- Jason Beghe was born on March 12, 1960 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Next Three Days (2010), Thelma & Louise (1991) and Monkey Shines (1988). He was previously married to Angie Janu.
- SpouseAngie Janu(February 2000 - September 28, 2020) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenBixBear
- ParentsRenato William BegheBina Beghe
- RelativesEliza Ashley Beghe(Sibling)Adam Beghe(Sibling)Francesca Beghe(Sibling)
- Deep, gravelly voice
- His gravelly voice is the result of an automobile accident in 1999. The accident was severe enough that he had to be intubated, and he kept pulling the tube out of his throat.
- He is a friend from childhood of David Duchovny and worked with him for a time as a bartender. He originally prodded David into an acting career.
- Attended the prestigious Collegiate School in Manhattan with best friend David Duchovny, actor Zach Galligan and the late John Kennedy Jr..
- He was David Duchovny's best man at Duchovny's marriage to Téa Leoni.
- Became a model after being photographed by Bruce Weber. This led to a modeling career in Europe where he spent a couple of years as the Armani man.
- Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
- [in 2015] I'm a lucky man. I've got a wonderful wife, and two great children, I got a great job, the only thing in 'What's life without conflict?', is that I live in California normally, but I work in Chicago, so I'm not able to put all the pieces together, but all the pieces are there.
- A lot of politics in my mother's side of the family. My great grandfather was the District Attorney of Chicago, then he became the governor of Illinois, and then the senator of Illinois.
- [on his Chicago P.D. character Hank Voight] What I tried to do was to keep the character who started out as a bad guy and as you got to know him more, you got to at least understand his motivation. So on the outside he might look overly violent and selfish, but he does violent things, he'll hurt somebody to protect others from being hurt. He'll take money, not so he can get a boat, but so he can help somebody who needs it. And so nobody is who they seem to be, is kind of what I hoped a lot of this show would be about. If you can understand somebody, you can understand them, and then you can love them. It's easy to look at something from the outside, "Look at that, I don't like him", and then we have war. And so I'm trying to get people to take a look at their neighbors and themselves and each other in a more understanding way.
- After that I started to do more research and I learned stuff I didn't know when I made the first video. It was one thing to take money and rip me off, but when I heard about the shit with the Sea Org, the violence and the cruelty. . .It's one thing to take someone's bread. It's another thing to take their soul. I felt like I had something to do with it, so I became a little more active. For a couple of years I became a real pain in the ass to them, so they started to attack me with phony lawsuits. They tried to bankrupt me and they came close.
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