- Born
- Birth nameRandy Randall Rudy Quaid
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- Randy Quaid is an Academy Award-nominated actor, for his performance in The Last Detail (1973). Hal Ashby directed Quaid in the role of Meadows opposite Jack Nicholson and Otis Young. Quaid is a great and much-admired actor that has been recognized by Hollywood and the world's finest directors, Midnight Express, The Last Picture Show, Ice Harvest (2005), Real Time (2008), King Carlos in Goya's Ghosts (2006) for director Milos Forman. Forman cast Quaid as "King Carlos IV of Spain" after seeing his Golden Globe-nominated performance as The Colonel in Elvis. Quaid also starred in such mainstream favorites as Kingpin (1996), Vacation (1983), Christmas Vacation (1989) and Independence day (1996).
Quaid earned a Golden Globe for portraying Lyndon Johnson, and received a Golden Globe Nomination for incarnating "Colonel" Tom Parker in Elvis (2005). The portrait of Colonel Parker, a former carnival barker with a murky past, is dark. The New York Times said "Mr. Quaid is riveting as the bully of Graceland" when he has Elvis firmly under his thumb, he is the L.B.J. of rock 'n' roll - a towering, wheedling, tirelessly self-promoting Southern fox in the rare instances when Elvis defies him, Colonel Parker shrinks into a hand-wringing phony, cajoling his only client in the overly ornate language of Professor Marvel in "The Wizard of Oz".
Quaid stars in and was nominated for The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a cast for his work in Brokeback Mountain (2005), directed by Ang Lee from a script written by Larry McMurtry, who also wrote The Last Picture Show (1971) in which Quaid had his first feature film role. Working with McMurtry and supporting his material has become a Randy Quaid career tradition. Quaid's performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005) was listed as one of the New York Observer's 2005 Noteworthy male performances. In 2009 Randy Quaid Won the Vancouver Critics Award for Best Male Performance in the Feature Film Real-Time for the Role of Rubin an Australian Hit Man.
Randy Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, to Juanita Bonnie Dale (Jordan), a real estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid, an electrician. He grew up in the Houston suburban city of Bellaire, along with his brother, actor Dennis Quaid.
Quaid is married to American Film Director Evi Quaid.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sue Guttman
- SpousesEvi Quaid(October 5, 1989 - present)Ella Marie Jolly(May 11, 1980 - June 20, 1985) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- ParentsJuanita Bonniedale Jordan
- RelativesJack Quaid(Niece or Nephew)Gene Autry(Cousin)Buddy Quaid(Half Sibling)Bo Brinkman(Cousin)Dennis Quaid(Sibling)Dakota Brinkman(Cousin)Laura Quaid(Sibling)
- Wacky, larger-than-life characters
- Towering height and broad frame
- Texas accent
- Older brother of Dennis Quaid. The two have not communicated in over 20 years due to a bad real estate deal in Montecito, California.
- Upon arriving in Hollywood, he found work as a janitor on Hollywood Boulevard. Within one year, he had been cast in The Last Detail (1973) and later earned Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations.
- An arrest warrant was issued for Randy and his wife, Evi Quaid, for failure to show up at a Santa Barbara, California court for an unpaid hotel bill on April 14, 2010. In a plea bargain, he was found not guilty of skipping out of the bill, while Evi was sentenced to a misdemeanor on April 28.
- Married his wife, Evi Quaid, three times, once in Monticeto, California. Once in Hollywood close to his favorite hotel and Walk of Fame star, and once in Toronto, Canada since becoming a refugee claimant. They were married at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California in 1989. 20 years later in 2009, they were arrested for allegedly defrauding the innkeeper, conspiracy, and burglary after allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 bill at the same hotel after an extended stay there in June 2009. Later it was learned the credit card used was overcharged by $73,000.
- Randy Quaid in 2010 had applied for refugee status from "Hollywood StarWhackers" in British Columbia Canada with his wife Evi who turned out to be 1/2 Canadian. They withdrew the refugee claims as a result of Evi Quaid being a duel citizen.
- When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping center, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
- I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side they present to the world. Those are good characters.
- Goya's Ghosts (2006) - $1,000,000
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) - $1,250,000
- Kingpin (1996) - $2,250,000
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) - $1,000,000 and 5% Gross
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