Actor: Randy Quaid

Randy Quaid was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Last Detail at twenty-three, playing a young sailor being escorted to prison, opposite Jack Nicholson.

Independence Day and the Vacation films gave him a broad comic register, and Cousin Eddie became a recurring cultural reference.

His career effectively ended after 2009 amid a series of legal problems, claims about a conspiracy targeting actors, and a long attempt to obtain asylum in Canada. Dennis Quaid is his brother.