Randall Batinkoff has worked with some of the best actors and directors
in the movie industry over the last three decades. His acting career began at the age of nine. While shopping at a toy
store with his mom, an agent came up and asked if he would be
interested in auditioning for a commercial. Randall got the job and 50
more by the time he finished high school at Phillips Academy in
Massachusetts. During the middle of his freshman year, at Brown
University, he got his big break when he was cast as Stan Bobrucz in
Maybe Baby - Am Anfang war der Klapperstorch (1988). He graduated from Brown with a degree in International
Relations.
After college he returned to Hollywood, where he portrayed Reg Goldman,
the model-chasing son of the studio head who intimidates Tim Robbins in
the classic Robert Altman film, _The Player_. Next he played Rip Van
Kelt, the morally torn head of the football team in Der Außenseiter (1992),
opposite Matt Damon, Brendan Fraser, and Chris O'Donnell, and Buffy's
dim-witted boyfriend Jeffrey in the cult comedy Buffy, der Vampirkiller (1992).
Batinkoff had winning roles in John Singleton's Die Rebellen (1995); in
Nicole Holofcener's Sundance debut Walking and Talking (1996); in The
Projekt: Peacemaker (1997), with Nicole Kidman and George Clooney; in _Mad City_ with
Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta; and as Helen Hunt's vomit-hating,
forehead-licking date in the James L. Brooks' Oscar-winning Besser geht's nicht (1997).
Batinkoff starred in the edgy Sundance competitor Mörderische Freunde (1998), as Rand,
a smooth, well-manicured killer opposite Keri Russell and Matthew Lillard, and the Slamdance-premiered Black Devil (1999), as a
racist hit-man with Norman Reedus, Mary-Louise Parker and
Jacqueline Bisset. Batinkoff received rave reviews from critics when he
portrayed Hugh Hefner in the Peter Werner directed, USA studios film,
Der Playboy - Die Hugh Hefner Story (1999).
Batinkoff plays opposite Jennifer Lopez and Martin Sheen in
Bordertown (2007), Gregory Nava's drama about the Juarez murders; and in
Broken (2006), where he co-stars with Heather Graham and Jeremy Sisto.
Randall recently had a memorable role in Lionsgate cult smash Kick-Ass (2010), based on the hit comic book of the same name, directed by Matthew Vaughn, and starring Nicolas Cage and Chloë Grace Moretz. Randall produced
Kick-Ass: The Game (2010) for the Sony Playstation Network.
37 (2014) marks his directorial debut, which he also co-wrote and produced.
