Jason Patric is an American film, television and stage actor.
The son of the Academy Award-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller, and Linda Gleason, daughter of actor Jackie Gleason. His half-brother is actor Joshua John Miller. Patric is of Irish descent.
He attended Don Bosco Preparatory High School, an all-boys Salesian Roman Catholic school in Ramsey, New Jersey, and Saint Monica Catholic High School in Santa Monica, California. He appeared in high school productions of Dracula and Grease.
After graduation, he was cast in the television drama Toughlove alongside Bruce Dern, Piper Laurie, Dedee Pfeiffer and Lee Remick.
He turned down the lead role in The Firm (1993), and the part went instead to Tom Cruise; he also turned down the role of Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004), which went to Jim Caviezel. He garnered excellent reviews for his performance as an undercover narcotics officer in 2002's Narc.
In 2005, Patric appeared on Broadway as "Brick", in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which also starred Ashley Judd, Ned Beatty and Margo Martindale.