Biography

After portraying Paul McCartney in a television movie, the two met by chance while staying at the same hotel and became real life friends.

Was close friends with Natasha Richardson, his co-star in La servante écarlate (1990). She named him as co-executor of estate in her will (2005).

He was raised mainly in Chicago, Illinois and partially in Dublin, Ireland and his parents' home county of Offaly.

His parents, Teresa and Michael Quinn, a professor of literature, were from Co. Offaly, Ireland. He was raised partly in Ireland.

Has dual US and Irish citizenship.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

"I was on this remote island a thousand miles off the coast of Kenya. The island didn't have electricity, but some people had generators, and I went to someone's house and there was a video of Recherche Susan désespérément (1985) playing. I think it was the only frigging television on the whole island. That was very bizarre".

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

There was one moment in high school where I thought, "Maybe I'll take an acting class." And I walked in and saw all the quote unquote theatre people and I went, "Oh God," and walked out. But later, when I was 19, I actually took an acting class and I was very much smitten with it.