Clifton Collins

Clifton Collins Jr. is one of those actors who's been quietly making everything better for decades — the kind of face you recognize instantly even if you can't always name him. Born in L.A. in 1970, he's a true character actor's character actor, equally at home playing a strung-out junkie, a menacing villain, or a sympathetic everyman. I've always respected that he brings a raw, lived-in intensity to roles that lesser actors would phone in — his work in Traffic, Sunshine Cleaning, and Westworld all stick with you. Winning a Screen Actors Guild Award and landing Emmy and ALMA nominations is great, but honestly, his real currency is consistency. He's never been the marquee name, and somehow that makes his performances feel more honest. Hollywood needs more people like him.

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Name (English)

Clifton Collins

Name (Japanese)

クリフトン・コリンズ・Jr

Reading

くりふとん・こりんず・Jr

Born

June 16, 1970 (age 56)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

film producer / character actor / film actor / television actor / voice actor

• Official sitehttps://cliftoncollinsjr.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mrwupass/
• Xhttps://x.com/ccollinsjr
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton%20Collins%20Jr.
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BBJr
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935167

Tags

• California
• film producer
• character actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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