Age: 63
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Dean Joseph Norris (born April 8, 1963 height 5' 7" (1,70 m)) is an American actor, best known for portraying DEA agent Hank Schrader on the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and town selectman James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome (2013–present). He has also appeared in films such as Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Hard to Kill (1990), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), The Firm (1993), Money Train (1995), Starship Troopers (1997), The Cell (2000), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Evan Almighty (2007), Sons of Liberty (2015), The Book of Henry (2017), Death Wish (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) and Carry-On (2024). Norris was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Jack, a furniture store owner, and Rosie Norris. He has four sisters. Norris graduated from Clay High School in 1981, where he says he got straight A's. He is a 1985 graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in social studies. He also attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Dean Norris
The Sheriff
for The Sheriff in Scarecrow: The Fear Tapes (DCU Horror Spinoff)
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Presented as a compilation of "recovered digital evidence" from the GCPD Cold Case files, the film follows a team of three graduate psychology students from Gotham University. They are working on a thesis about "The Urban Legends of Fear," specifically focusing on the discredited and exiled academic, Dr. Jonathan Crane, who vanished years ago into the rural, rotting outskirts of Gotham’s marshlands. Armed with cameras and audio equipment, they break into the condemned Crane Family Estate to find his original research journals. The horror begins slowly: local townspeople give cryptic warnings, and the house itself seems like a maze. The turning point occurs when the group accidentally triggers a booby trap, releasing a concentrated, prototype "Fear Dust." From this moment on, the camera’s perspective becomes unreliable. The audience sees what the students see: grotesque distortions of reality, walls breathing, and their own traumas manifesting as monsters. The Scarecrow is rarely seen fully; he is a silhouette in the grain of the footage, a whisper in the audio, and a burlap mask flashing in the strobe light, studying them like lab rats until the tape cuts to black.
