Wes Bentley

Wesley Cook "Wes" Bentley (born September 4, 1978) is an American actor.

Bentley is best known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999), Blackheart in Ghost Rider (2007), Thomas in P2 (2007), Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012), and Doyle in Interstellar (2014). He was one of four subjects in the documentary My Big Break (2009), which covered his fame after American Beauty and struggles with substance abuse. Rebuilding his career, he starred in the premiere of Venus in Fur by David Ives in the off-Broadway production in 2010.

In 2015, he starred as Detective John Lowe on American Horror Story: Hotel, the fifth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story.

Early life

Bentley was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the third of four sons of Cherie Baker and David Bentley. His father is a minister and his mother is a chaplain and ordained elder in the Arkansas Conference, both in the United Methodist denomination. In 1996, he graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood, Arkansas. He attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division as part of its Group 29 (1996–2000) but left the school after one year to pursue his acting career.

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"A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality."
"You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors."
"Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon plays-not that they're bad, but you can only take so much."
"It's a bad thing just to play off your looks. People have given me a chance to transform myself. That's what I love about acting."
"After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was."
"I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing."
"I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me."
"I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die."
"Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church."
"Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality."
"But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!"
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