Background
Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He attended Louisiana State University and began acting due to a mistake. A computer error in his high school registration scheduled him in an acting class.
Personal Vince has a condition called nystagmus which is the involuntary movement of the eye. Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch"s Down by Law, but his scenes wound up on the cutting room floor. He also starred in Giuseppe Tornatore"s Legend of 1900 alongside Tim Roth.
He had his first lead role in James Mangold"s independent film Heavy, playing a sweet, silent overweight cook harboring a crush on a waitress (Liv Tyler).
Vince often alternates roles of both heroic and villainous characters, like a lovable small town public owner in Beautiful Girls, a serial killer with multiple personalities in Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold), the disheveled gossip columnist in s1mone, and a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty. He can also be seen in Love from Ground Zero as Walter.
Vince also played a Southern cop in Angel Heart, a kidnapper"s assistant in Trapped, and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone"s Natural Born Killers. Other film titles include the neo-noir China Moon and the psychological horror film Jacob"s Ladder.
Guest appearances on television shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation, House Doctor of Medicine, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil.
In 2011 he appeared as Otis in the Administrative Management College television series The Walking Dead. He also had a guest role playing a 600-pounds patient in Fox"s medical drama House. In 2010–2014 Pruitt Taylor Vince had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist.
In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified.
He shows great comedic talent as "Jelly" in Flypaper.