Dennis Quaid
Wood Horse - Chia Wu Year
The 60-year Cycle of the Chinese Zodiac
Born: 9 April 1954
Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Best Known As: Gordon Cooper in The Right Stuff
Lean and just a bit craggy with an aw-shucks grin, Quaid has often played a rascal with a good heart and a soft head. His most prominent role remains that of cocky astronaut Gordon Cooper in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. His other films include The Big Easy (1987), Traffic (2000, directed by Stephen Soderbergh), and Great Balls of Fire (1989) in which he played musician Jerry Lee Lewis. He starred as pitcher Jim Morris in the 2002 biopic The Rookie. Quaid is the younger brother of actor Randy Quaid.
Quaid married actress Meg Ryan in 1991; the pair filed for divorce in 2000. They have one son, Jack Henry.
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