- Born
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- Pruitt can next be seen starring as a series regular in the Apple TV+ series Lady in the Lake, opposite Natalie Portman. Other television work includes recurring in Netflix's Stranger Things, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., NBC's Heroes Reborn, True Blood, The Walking Dead, The Mentalist, and Murder One (for which he won an Emmy). On the film side, Pruitt has held prominent roles in Netflix's Bird Box opposite Sandra Bullock and The Life and Death of John Gotti opposite John Travolta.
- IMDb mini biography by: Burstein Company
- SpousesJulianne Mattelig(May 24, 2003 - present)Anne Schneider
- Playing twitchy, nervous, sometimes disturbed characters
- Has nystagmus, a condition which causes a person's eyes to move involuntarily.
- Ended up in a drama class by accident in high school due to a computer error in registration.
- When Pruitt Taylor Vince won the 1997 Emmy as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Murder One (1995), he beat Ewan McGregor and such top-drawer thespians as Oscar-winners Alan Arkin and Louis Gossett Jr. and Oscar nominee William H. Macy for the award.
- Won the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performance by an Actor for his performance as serial killer Clifford Banks on Murder One (1995).
- Nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Northeast Film Festival 2013 for his stellar performance as Earl Wayne in Broken Blood (2013).
- I think the bad-guy roles are fun - there are more of them, and they're written more colorfully.
- I never had a prejudiced bone in my body.
- I got agitated at the idea that racism is a Southern thing. Did you hear about the cross-burning out here? A black family moved into an upper-middle-class Los Angeles suburb and found a cross burning on their lawn. Swastikas are being painted on synagogues. I'm moving to France. I don't think this 'kinder, gentler nation' bit is working too well.
- What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.
- I didn't make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream.
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