Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American actor.
Michael Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee to Virginia and William Jeter, a dentist. Jeter was a student at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) when his interests changed from medicine to acting. He performed in several plays and musicals at Circuit Theatre and its sister theatre Playhouse on the Square in mid-town Memphis. He left Memphis to furth...
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Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American actor.
Michael Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee to Virginia and William Jeter, a dentist. Jeter was a student at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) when his interests changed from medicine to acting. He performed in several plays and musicals at Circuit Theatre and its sister theatre Playhouse on the Square in mid-town Memphis. He left Memphis to further pursue his stage career in Baltimore, Maryland, as he had heard it was hard to get work in New York without an Equity card.
His woebegone look, extreme flexibility and high energy led Tommy Tune to cast him in the Off-Broadway Cloud 9 and, on Broadway, in a memorable role in the musical Grand Hotel, for which he won a Tony Award in 1990. Much of his film and television work specialized in playing eccentric, pretentious or wimpy characters, as in The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Drop Zone. Although occasionally, Jeter was...
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