Born: May 28, 1970 Where: Dublin, Ireland. In 1988, he moved to Orange County California, with his mother, Bernadette, and sisters, Sonya and Louisa. Lives: In the Hollywood Hills, "up there by the sign, right under the D." On Cue: Quinn got his big break in 1988 when he appeared as a pool hustler in the Richard Marx video "Satisfied." "There were 200 models in the room," remembers Quinn. "I strolled in and was like 'Hey man, cut the s--t, just give me the pool stick.' And they gave me the job." Luck of the Irish: Soon after, he landed the role of Becky's bad-boy boyfriend Mark on Roseanne. "I owe her so much," says Quinn of Roseanne. It's a debt he plans to repay by helping out at the actresses's upcoming Playboy shoot. "I'll be there touching her up" he jokes, "touching her tats." Kiss and tell: In 1991, Quinn made his big-screen debut as Gwyneth Paltrow's boyfriend in the box-office bomb "Shout." "I knew she was going to be quite brilliant," says Quinn, "not only by the way she kissed, but by the way she walked, talked, ... evrything." Rock and role: To prepare for his latest part, that of a ruthless band manager in VH1's At Any Cost (August 16, 9 P.M./E.T), Quinn "watched those Behind The Music things; they helped a bit." He's got the beat: But Quinn got his first taste of the of the music industry while playing drums in a rock group back home. "You want to be U2 when you're in Ireland [but] we got caught up in the Bon Jovi days instead." Band of brothers: Though his character, the half-demon Doyle, was killed off on WB's Angel after only nine episodes , Quinn stayed in touch with costar David Boreanaz. "We are brothers to the end," he says. "I'm teaching him to play the drums now." Feast or famine: Quinn says his dream project would be "to do a movie on the [Irish] famine. "I'm sure there'd be a role in there for a starving young Irishman with no potatoes." Club king: When not acting, Quinn runs the Hollywood bar Goldfingers, named afetr the James Bond film. "It's like the interior of Goldfinger's plane: all gold lame with cushioned back walls and Pussy Galore's patio." Free as a bird: Quinn is single, but wouldn't mind pairing up with an Irish lass. "They're straight up," he says . "Plus, they make great breakfasts, eggs over easy or...eggs on me."
-Annabel Vered |
