Jordan Prentice
Jordan Prentice is an actor, born 1973.
Jordan Prentice has one scene-stealing role that most people can quote and a filmography that has never quite matched it. Born in London, Ontario in 1973, and describing himself as a person of short stature, he has an early credit that sounds like a trivia answer and is not: he was one of the performers who played the title character in Howard the Duck in 1986.
The role that matters is Jimmy in In Bruges in 2008. The part is written as a provocation, reaching for the most inflammatory line available in every scene, and Prentice plays it with complete sincerity rather than winking at the audience. That choice is the whole reason the character works instead of curdling. He is doing something similar, at lower voltage, as Napoleon in Mirror Mirror in 2012.
The rest is comedy and genre: Rock in American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile, a walking Giant Bag of Weed in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Rocky in an episode of Goosebumps, Fingers Finnian in Wolf Girl, Brown in The Power of Few. He also appeared in the music videos for the Vengaboys' Shalala Lala and the Bloodhound Gang's The Bad Touch, which is how a certain generation first saw him. He has worked on stage in Toronto too, leading Eric Woolfe's Revenger's Medicine Show for Eldritch Theatre.
Movies (7)
TV (1)
Where to start with Jordan Prentice
One film does the work here, and it is In Bruges. His Jimmy gets the picture's most provocative material and he refuses to play it for laughs, which is precisely what makes the scene funny and uncomfortable at the same time.
From there the pickings are lighter. Mirror Mirror gives him a proper role in a big-budget fairy tale and lets him work with an ensemble rather than alone. Howard the Duck is the historical curio, and worth knowing about mainly because he was one of the performers playing the duck. American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle are broad studio comedies where he is used as a gag but lands it, and Wolf Girl is the oddest thing here, a small sideshow curiosity with more on its mind than its title suggests. The American Pie sequel Beta House is not among the credits listed here.