Biography
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), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Starship Troopers (1997), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and Evan Almighty (2007). Norris was born in South Bend, I...
Known For
Complete Filmography

WrestleMania 41: Sunday
2025
as Himself
John Cena vies for his record 17th World Title when he challenges Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

The Parenting
2025
as Cliff
Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.

The Six Triple Eight
2024
as General Halt
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 mill...

Carry-On
2024
as Phil Sarkowski
An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

Unfrosted
2024
as Khruschev
In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry.

Fool's Paradise
2023
as Studio Head
A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019
as Roy Nicholls
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly hau...

The Hustle
2019
as Howard Bacon
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comed...

Beirut
2018
as Donald Gaines
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsibl...

Death Wish
2018
as Detective Rains
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

The Book of Henry
2017
as Glenn Sickleman
Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances ...

Fist Fight
2017
as Principal Richard Tyler
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.

Remember
2015
as John Kurlander
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the d...

Secret in Their Eyes
2015
as Bumpy
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own...

Men, Women & Children
2014
as Kent Mooney
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relat...

Small Time
2014
as Ash Martini
Al Klein and his longtime friend, Ash Martini, own a used car lot and these two know every trick in the book when it comes to selling cars. Klein stil...

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013
as Self
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.

The Counselor
2013
as Buyer
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

The Frozen Ground
2013
as Sgt. Lyle Haugsven
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on...

Get the Gringo
2012
as Bill
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Remember I'll Always Love You
2011
as Terry
A woman discovers with astonishment that her husband has committed suicide. Sumida in great pain decides to investigate the reasons that drove her hus...

Prom
2011
as Frank Prescott
At “Prom,” every couple has a story and no two are exactly alike. As the big dance approaches for Nova Prescott, it’s a battle of wills as she finds h...

How Do You Know
2010
as Softball Coach
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triang...

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special
2010
as Del Tong
Join Messers Heidecker and Wareheim for an exciting winter holiday that's taking the world by storm with the Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! C...

Linewatch
2008
as Warren Kane
Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a Border Patrol Officer in the New Mexico desert with a secret past that is about to catch up with him. When...

The Heartbreak Kid
2007
as Jodi's Father
Eddie, the 40-year-old confirmed bachelor finally says "I do" to the beautiful and sexy Lila. But during their honeymoon in Mexico, the woman of his d...

Evan Almighty
2007
as Officer Collins
God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

Little Miss Sunshine
2006
as State Trooper McCleary
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Mrs. Harris
2006
as Sporting Goods Clerk
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean ...

American Gun
2005
as Terrence
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affec...

The One
2001
as Sgt. Siegel
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.

Sonic Impact
2000
as Agent McGee
A dangerous criminal hijacks a plane with his fellow prisoners and threatens to crash it into a populated area. The agent who captured him sets out t...

The Cell
2000
as Cole
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

3 Strikes
2000
as Officer Roberts
Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hook...

My Little Assassin
1999
1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the ...

Mr. Murder
1998
as Victor 'Vic' Delorio
A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer, feels...

Without Limits
1998
as Bill Dellinger
The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

The Negotiator
1998
as Scott
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elabo...

On the Line
1998
as Manny Denikolas
A female police detective tries to track down a gang of teenage bank robbers while dealing with sexual harassment on the job, and her troubled home li...

Starship Troopers
1997
as Commanding Officer
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from...

Gattaca
1997
as Cop on the Beat
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member ...
After Jimmy
1996
as Ray Johnson
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Ji...

Death Benefit
1996
as Rod Montgomery
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young...
Forgotten Sins
1996
as Detective Carl Messenger
A county sheriff is accused by his daughter of having abused her. Her accusation gets more and more elaborate, involving satanic rituals. As nearly ev...

Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
1996
as Detective Pike
True crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenaged students to murder her estranged husband.

Innocent Victims
1996
as Frank Sarezin
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.

It Came from Outer Space II
1995
as Dave Grant
Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when temperatures...

Money Train
1995
as Guard with Dooley
When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
as Levasseur
When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to track down the killers. Realizing the murder is conn...

Number One Fan
1995
as Graham Chandler
A movie star is being stalked by a one-night stand.

Safe
1995
as Mover
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Texas Justice
1995
When a Texas millionaire marries his mistress, a bitter divorce battle, two deaths, an FBI sting operation, and criminal trials ensue.

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1994
as Red Arrow
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the in...

The Last Seduction
1994
as Shep
A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

Playmaker
1994
as Detective Marconi
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.

Full Eclipse
1993
as Fleming
The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for ...

Jailbait
1993
as Hershiser
17 year old Kyle comes to the big city in search of her half-sister Merci. Merci is on the run after being used to set up a murder. The police and the...

The Firm
1993
as The Squat Man
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...

Barbarians at the Gate
1993
as 1st Scientist
F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fa...

It's Nothing Personal
1993
as Michael Dawson
An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.

From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One
1992
as Det. Russell Dahl
In the first of a potential series of films inspired by the real-life experiences of Los Angeles police officer turned bestselling author Joseph Wamba...

Secrets
1992
as Henderson
Producer Mel Wexler is putting together "Manhattan," a night-time soap opera that will definitely be the toast of the town. He puts together a stellar...

The Lawnmower Man
1992
as The Director
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

Till Death Us Do Part
1992
as Matt Hobert
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Ch...

Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
1991
as Mike
This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug dealing),...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
as SWAT Team Leader
Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get rid of rebellio...

Murderous Vision
1991
as Lieutenant Martin
Detective Kyle Robeshaw is a headstrong detective who finds himself stuck in a dead end job in missing person's as a result. One of his cases leads hi...

When You Remember Me
1990
as Bill
Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. There he must co...

Desperate Hours
1990
as Maddox
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as SWAT Team Leader
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...

Total Recall
1990
as Tony
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory im...

Hard to Kill
1990
as Det. Sgt. Goodhart
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is s...

Montana
1990
as Foreman
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and...

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Tim Cavanaugh
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Disorganized Crime
1989
as Deputy Joe
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do...

Question of Faith
1988
as Richard
A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat ...
Gringo Hunter
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as Abraham