Pruitt Taylor Vince

Pruitt Taylor Vince born July 5 1960 is an American character actor He had roles in the films Mississippi Burning 1988 Jacobs Ladder 1990 JFK 1991 Identity 2003 and Constantine 2005 He played JJ Laroche in The Mentalist 20082015 Vince has also appeared on many television series In 1997 he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Clifford Banks in the second season of the television series Murder One Vince was born in Baton Rouge Louisiana on July 5 1960 He attended Louisiana State University For most of his life Vince has had a condition called nystagmus the involuntary movement of the eye Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmuschs Down by Law but his scenes were edited out He had prominent supporting roles in several major films including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning 1988 Lee Bowers in JFK 1991 and the main characters best friend in Nobodys Fool 1994 His first lead role was in James Mangolds independent film Heavy 1995 playing a sweet silent overweight cook harbouring a crush on a waitress played by Liv Tyler He starred in Giuseppe Tornatores film The Legend of 1900 1998 Vince often alternates between heroic and villainous characters Vince played a Southern policeman in the neonoir psychological horror film Angel Heart 1987 a kidnappers assistant in the crime thriller film Trapped 2002 and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers 1994 He played a lovable smalltown pub owner in Beautiful Girls 1996 a mentally ill serial killer in the 2003 mystery thriller film Identity a second collaboration with director Mangold a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty 2000 a gossip columnist in Simone 2002 and a dissolute Roman Catholic priest with psychic abilities in the 2005 supernatural horror film Constantine He can also be seen in the dramatic film Love from Ground Zero 1998 playing as Walter Other film titles include the psychological horror film Jacobs Ladder 1990 the neonoir film China Moon 1994 the action thriller film Homefront 2013 and the supernatural horror film The Devils Candy 2015 Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood Alias The XFiles Miami Vice Quantum Leap Chicago Hope In the Heat of the Night CSI Crime Scene Investigation Highlander The Series and the American remake of Touching Evil In 2011 he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead He also had a guest role playing a 600lb patient in Foxs medical drama House From 2010 to 2014 he had a multiepisode appearance in The Mentalist In 2012 he appeared in a full episode of Justified He took a comic role as Jelly in Flypaper In 2018 he appeared on an episode of The Blacklist as Lawrence Devlin Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One