Dennis Quaid has been capturing attention on the screen for decades with memorable roles in Breaking Away, Dreamscape, The ...

Dennis William Quaid was born in Houston on April 9, 1954, to real estate agent Juanita and electrician William Quaid. He had ...

Quaid went on to attend NYU, where he pursued experimental theater and sketch comedy, and in 2012, at age 20, he made his screen debut in The Hunger Games.He reprised his role in the 2013 sequel ...

the son of Hollywood icons Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, "wasn't too proud" of his actual eighth-grade nickname. "All the middle-school boys called me 'Jackoff,' just to get under my skin," he says.