Birthdate: Apr 24, 1992
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Jack Quaid (birthname: Jack Henry Quaid), the only son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, has transcended the “nepo baby” label that had burdened him in the early phase of his career with more starring and co-starring roles, though he launched his movie career in a supporting role in The Hunger Games (2012), directed by Gary Ross, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland, and grossing $695 million for Lionsgate. Quaid then joined veteran indie filmmaker Henry Jaglom for his drama-comedy based on his play, Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2012), with Tanya Frederick and Judd Nelson.
Quaid was cast by director/producer Courteney Cox for her black comedy, Just Before I Go (2014), with Seann William Scott, Elisha Cuthbert, Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt, and Kate Walsh, and released by Anchor Bay Entertainment after premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. Quaid appeared in director/writer Melanie Shaw’s comedy-drama Running Wild (2015), with Zoe Worth, Alden Ehrenreich, and Angelyne. Then Quaid co-starred under Meg Ryan’s direction in Ithaca (2015), the feature adaptation of William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy, with Alex Neustaedter, Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamlisch Linklater, and Tom Hanks, and released by Momentum Pictures.
Jack Quaid had his first starring role in a feature in the psychological drama, Aberrant (2016), with Justine Magnusson, Jared Wernick, and Kristoffer Polaha under Alyssa Rallo Bennett’s direction and which was produced by Stonestreet Studios. Quaid joined the starry cast of director/cinematographer/editor Steven Soderbergh’s heist comedy, Logan Lucky (2017), with the ensemble of Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank, Katherine Waterston and Sebastian Stan, and which was distributed via Soderbergh’s own company, Fingerprint Releasing, for a $48.5 million return.
Quaid was cast in director/writer Tyler MacIntyre’s teen horror-comedy, Tragedy Girls (2017), starring Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson, Craig Robinson, and Kevin Durand, and distributed by Gunpowder & Sky after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Quaid joined the cast of Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lac,y and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the monster movie based on the Midway Games video game, Rampage (2018), directed by Brad Peyton and released by Warner Bros. for a $428 million return against $140 million costs.
Jack Quaid returned to his comedy roots with a co-starring role opposite Maya Erskine in director/writer/producers Jeff Chan’s and Andrew Rhymer’s rom-com, Plus One (2019), with Rosalind Chao and Ed Begley Jr., premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival and released by RLJE Films. Quaid jumped aboard another franchise with a supporting role in Paramount Pictures’ successful ($139 million gross) reboot of Scream (2022), with Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, and Jenna Ortega under Matt Bettinelli-Olpin’s and Tyler Gillett’s co-direction.
Quaid voiced the role of Peter Parker on Earth-65 in Marvel/Sony Picture Releasing’s acclaimed animated sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), co-directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson and produced and co-written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (with Dave Callahan), starring Shameik Moore, and earning a knockout $691 million.
Quaid came aboard another blockbuster, portraying physicist Richard Feynman in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning epic biopic, Oppenheimer (2023), starring Cillian Murphy and the ensemble of Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie and Kenneth Branagh, and becoming the second highest grossing R-rated movie to date with a $977 million return.
Jack Quaid gained another co-starring role, this time with co-star Sophie Thatcher in director/writer Drew Hancock’s horror movie, Companion (2025), with Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillen, and Rupert Friend, and released by Warner Bros. Quaid’s first studio feature as the star was in Paramount Pictures’ action thriller, Novocaine (2025), with Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Jacob Batalon and Matt Walsh under the direction of Dan Berk and Robert Olsen.
Quaid co-starred in Amazon MGM Studios’ Heads of State (date to be announced), with Idris Elba, John Cena, Priyanka Chopra, Stephen Root and Carla Gugino under Ilya Naishuller’s direction, and produced by The Safari Company. Quaid then starred in the crime thriller, Neighborhood Watch (date to be announced), with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman under Duncan Skiles’s direction.
Jack Quaid was born and raised in Los Angeles by parents/actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. Quaid’s uncle is actor Randy Quaid. Ryan attended and graduated from Crossroads School in Santa Monica and then attended and graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Quaid was in a relationship with Lizzy McGroder from 2016 to 2021. Quaid’s height is 6’ 0 ¾ ”. Quaid’s estimated net worth is $4 million.
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Jack Quaid’s performing roots are in comedy—he performed in a comedy group when attending NYU and did stand-up comedy.
President: Quaid was president of “The Bad Movie Club” at Crossroads School during his high school years.
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