James Remar (born 31 December 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in at least 98 different media projects including movies, video games, and TV shows. He is perhaps best known as Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in Sex and the City, as Ajax in The Warriors , as a homicidal maniac in the early 1980s comedy/thriller 48 Hrs and played Raiden, god of thunder in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
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James Remar (born 31 December 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in at least 98 different media projects including movies, video games, and TV shows. He is perhaps best known as Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in Sex and the City, as Ajax in The Warriors , as a homicidal maniac in the early 1980s comedy/thriller 48 Hrs and played Raiden, god of thunder in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
Remar was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Remar has spent the majority of his film career playing villains. He is known for his roles as the aggressively sexual and violent character Ajax in the 1979 cult film The Warriors and as the murdering sociopath Albert Ganz in the 1982 hit 48 Hrs. (both movies were directed by Walter Hill). Remar is also well-known for playing real-life 30s-era gangster Dutch Schultz in the 1984 film The Cotton Club. He also starred in the 1980 film Windwalker as the young Windwalker. In 1996, he played one of the main villains in Paramount...
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