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Biography #2 (for 2 Fast 2 Furious)

James Remar recently starred in the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Sex and the City, gaining national popularity as Samantha's (actress Kim Cattrall) love interest, Richard Wright. Remar received a 2001 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

The actor recently finished production on a series of projects: the Danny DeVito-directed comedy Duplex, starring Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller; the independent romantic comedy The Girl Next Door; and Down with the Joneses, directed by John Curry. Next, James can be seen starring opposite John Turturro and Debra Unger in Hubert Selby Jr.'s (Requiem for a Dream) noir thriller Fear X, co-written and directed by Danish director Nicholas Wynding Refn.

James began his career on the New York stage in numerous productions, including the original cast of Bent with Richard Gere, as well as numerous off- and off-off-Broadway plays. He has enjoyed a successful career spanning more than two decades and has appeared in more than 30 feature films. He broke onto the scene in Walter Hill's The Warriors and then starred opposite Eddie Murphy in 48 Hours. Since then, James has worked steadily with some of the industry's most celebrated filmmakers, including Gus Van Sant, Penny Marshall, Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Apted.

More recently, James was seen opposite Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer in the hit thriller What Lies Beneath for director Robert Zemeckis. His performance in Boys on the Side, as a rugged, gentle bartender opposite Mary Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore and Whoopi Goldberg garnered him critical acclaim.

Bio courtesy Universal Pictures for "2 Fast 2 Furious" (08-Jun-2003)