Background
Hauser was born in Santa Barbara, California, son of Cass Warner, who founded the film production company Warner Sisters, and actor Wings Hauser. Hauser is of Irish and German descent on his father"s side and Jewish on his mother"son
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Hauser was born in Santa Barbara, California, son of Cass Warner, who founded the film production company Warner Sisters, and actor Wings Hauser. Hauser is of Irish and German descent on his father"s side and Jewish on his mother"son
Hauser"s maternal grandmother, Betty Mae Warner, a painter, sculptor, political activist and gallery owner, is now married to Stanley Sheinbaum, a noted political activist, economist, philanthropist, and a former Los Angeles Police Department commissioner. Hauser"s parents divorced in 1977, when he was two years old. According to him, at roughly fifteen, he first met his father after the relocation-induced years of separation.
His father took him in for a year and taught him about auditioning.
At the time, he participated heavily in sports, but half-heartedly pursued school. At 16 years old he decided to leave high school to try to break into acting.
Hauser made his film debut, School Ties (1992) which starred many young and up-and-coming actors such as Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O"Donnell and Ben Affleck. A role in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused also starring Affleck came along subsequently.
In 1995, Hauser played the role of the leader of the campus neo-Nazi skinheads in the John Singleton film Higher Learning.
Hauser would later re-team with Affleck and Damon when they appeared together in Good Will Hunting (1997). In 2000 he played William J. Johns in Pitch Black and voiced the character in the prequel video game. In 2002, he played a racist American prisoner-of-war in Hart"s War with Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell.
Then in 2003, he played a Navy Sea, Air, Land in Tears of the Sun alongside Bruce Willis.
He also appeared as a mob boss in 2 Fast 2 Furious. He has since had several leading roles in Hollywood films, including the Mel Gibson-produced Paparazzi and The Cave.
In 2007, he starred with Anthony Anderson in the FOX series K-Ville. The show was canceled after ten episodes.
That same year, Hauser starred in The Stone Angel adapted from a novel by Margaret Laurence.
The film played in various festival circles and had a limited release in Canadian theaters in May 2008. During that same year, Cole filmed other indie productions such as Like Dandelion Dust from a novel by Karen Kingsbury, Tyler Perry"s The Family That Preys and the Columbia Broadcasting System television pilot The Tower.