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Date of Birth

20 July 1964, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Dean Gerard Winters

Height

6' 1½" (1.87 m)

Mini Biography

Dean Winters is best known for his role as "Ryan O'Reily" on HBO's award-winning series "Oz" (1997). Most recently, he recurred as Tina Fey's "Beeper King" boyfriend on the Emmy-winning comedy, "30 Rock" (2006). His noteworthy comedic performance was recently included in Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" as well as Variety's short-list of Emmy-worthy guest performances. In addition to being featured in the film P.S. I Love You (2007) with Hilary Swank, Winters was a series regular on FX's critically-acclaimed "Rescue Me" (2004), in which he played Denis Leary's cop brother. He recurs as Lena Headey's former love interest on the Fox series, "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008).

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Mini Biography

Dean Winters starred as "Johnny Gavin", Tommy's younger brother and a NYPD police detective on "Rescue Me" (2004), the critically acclaimed, one-hour drama from Sony Pictures Television, airing on FX.

Dean is best know for playing the cunning "Ryan O'Reily" on Tom Fontana's hit HBO drama series "Oz" (1997).

Winters also played "Detective Brian Cassidy" on NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999). Other television credits include guest-starring roles in "CSI: Miami" (2002), "Sex and the City" (1998), "Third Watch" (1999), "The Twilight Zone" (1985), "Millennium" (1996/I), "New York Undercover" (1994), "NYPD Blue" (1993) and "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993).

Some of Winters' film projects include Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009), Bristol Boys (2005), Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) (V), Bullet in the Brain (2001), Snipes (2001), Undercover Angel (1999), All Shook Up (1999), Conspiracy Theory (1997), starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, Firehouse (1997) (TV), Sidney Lumet's television movie Strip Search (2004) (TV) and the upcoming Devil You Know (2009).

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Trivia

Brother of Scott William Winters and Bradford Winters.

Attended college in Colorado.

Is skilled in boxing and tai chi.

Is fluent in Italian.

Is of Irish and Italian descent

Appears in the trailer for the upcoming movie Dead Calling (2006).

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