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Full Rex Linn Biography
Rex Maynard Linn was born in Ochiltree County, Texas, the third child, and second son, of Darlene Deere and James Paul Linn. He grew up on a ranch outside Spearman, Texas, a small agricultural, ranching, and oil town, with his sister Rhonda Lou and brother James Paul II, attending Spearman Elementary and Spearman Junior High School. Linn's first public performances included playing drums with his band, The Beach Bums, in the Junior High Auditorium to entertain his classmates. Summers were spent working cattle with cowboys and going to movies in town.
It was in this small Texas community that Linn developed an appetite, at an early age, for movies and acting. The Lyric theater on Main Street, which is still in operation, provided the people of Spearman with the only movie house in the area. Linn frequented the little movie house often and enjoyed its menu of horror films and Westerns.
After graduation, Linn decided on a banking career. He worked his way up to VP of Energy Lending for the Lakeshore Bank, remaining with it until July 5, 1982, when the bank was shut down for insolvency. Linn was able to convince a talent agent to take a chance on him and represent him in the Oklahoma market. At the same time, he accepted a job with an oil company, overseeing field operations in western Oklahoma, all the while auditioning for film and TV commercial parts. After shooting some very bad commercials, he started landing small roles in various projects. It was during this time that he was given the opportunity to act in his first film, Dark Before Dawn, which was being produced by his best friend, Edward K. Gaylord II. More importantly, he became an associate producer on the film. That opportunity provided him with great insight into the creative process of filmmaking, which would later prove to be a valuable asset to him in the world of acting.
In 1989, he was cast in his first substantial role, as serial killer Floyd Epps, in Night Game, starring Roy Scheider. Following this film, and a part as the sheriff in the TV series, the Young Riders, he decided it was time to head west. Surrendering to the acting bug, Linn sold his house, loaded all his possessions into a U-Haul, and, on February 5, 1990, headed to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. For the first three years, he studied acting with Silvana Gallardo in Studio City and worked with a close friend and fellow struggling actor, Robert Knott, on various construction jobs.
But gradually, the roles started coming, small ones in theatrical films such as My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991), Thunderheart (1992), and Sniper (1993), and guest shots on TV series including Northern Exposure, Raven, and The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. In April 1992 he got his first real break. Linn was cast as the bad U.S. Treasury agent, Richard Travers, in the very successful movie Cliffhanger. That film proved to be pivotal in providing the exposure Rex needed to get to the next level.
Since Cliffhanger, he has appeared in over 35 films, with that number growing annually. Linn's most recent work includes an independent production, Cockfight, originally titled The Round and Round, which was released in 2004, Zodiac in 2005, and Abominable in 2006, with another picture, The Garage, in production in 2006. He has also had recurring roles in several TV series, most recently as Sgt. Frank Tripp on CSI: Miami, a role for which, according to an article in the Dec. 27 2004 issue of the Oklahoman, he was tricked into reading during the first season and which he has held, as a series regular, ever since.
He currently is reported to be living in Sherman Oaks, California, with his dogs in cat suits, Jack and Choctaw. Linn is a die-hard Texas Longhorns fan, even taking the day off his CSI: Miami work to attend the Rose Bowl game when his beloved team was playing -- and winning the national championship.
He also admits to the enjoyment of outdoor cooking, with a smoker and a grill, and lots of spices, but his love of the outdoors is not limited to cooking and football. He is a former chairman of the Oklahoma City chapter of Ducks Unlimited, and in 1986, he won the state duck-calling competition, and came fourth in the national competition.
Linn is an active supporter of children’s charities as well as the arts, including playing golf in celebrity tournaments for children’s charities, arthritis, and the blind, allowing himself to be auctioned to support the ballet and participating in the team roping competitions at the Ben Johnson Rodeo fundraiser.
On May 12, 2007, he was a celebrity award presenter at the National Association of Police Organizations Top Cops award ceremony In Washington D.C. |
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