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My Take
Wes Bentley is my favorite kind of actor: the one who came back. After American Beauty made him a haunted-eyed sensation, his career nearly disappeared, and the second act he built — Seneca Crane's ornamental menace in The Hunger Games, quiet work in Interstellar, and especially Jamie Dutton's slow-motion moral collapse on Yellowstone — feels earned in a way early stardom never is. He plays men who are losing arguments with themselves, and he does it without vanity. I trust performers who have been humbled by their own story, and Bentley wears that history in every scene.
Overview
Wes Bentley (born September 4, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999), which earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor, Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012), Doyle in Interstellar (2014), Erik in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Jamie Dutton in Yellowstone.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Wes Bentley
- Name (Japanese)
- ウェス・ベントリー
- Reading
- うぇす・べんとりー
- Born
- September 4, 1978 (age 47)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Horse
- Origin
- Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / television actor / film producer / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Sylvan Hills High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.