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Biography

Dean Winters was born on July 20, 1964 in New York City. He has three younger siblings: Scott (an actor), Bradford (a poet/writer), and…more

Born

7/20/1964, New York, New York U.S.A

Birth Name

Dean Winters

Gender

Male

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Role
- OZ
  Prisoner #97P904 Ryan O'Reily (1997-2003)
  - S 6: Ep 8 Exeunt Omnes
    2/23/03
  - S 6: Ep 7 Junkyard Dawgs
    2/16/03
  - S 6: Ep 6 A Day in the Death...
    2/9/03
  - S 6: Ep 5 4 Giveness
    2/2/03
  - S 6: Ep 4 A Failure to Communicate
    1/26/03
  - + 35 More Credits
- OZ
  Ryan O'Reily
  - S 2: Ep 8 Escape from Oz
    8/31/98
  - S 2: Ep 7 Animal Farm
    8/24/98
  - S 2: Ep 6 Strange Bedfellows
    8/17/98
  - S 2: Ep 5 Family Bizness
    8/10/98
  - S 2: Ep 4 Losing Your Appeal
    8/3/98
  - + 11 More Credits
Recurring Role (4)

Role
- 30 Rock
  Dennis Duffy
  - S 6: Ep 12 St. Patrick's Day
    3/15/12
  - S 6: Ep 6 Hey, Baby, What's Wrong? (Part 1)
    2/9/12
  - S 5: Ep 21 100, Part 2
    4/21/11
  - S 5: Ep 20 100, Part 1
    4/21/11
  - S 5: Ep 12 Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning
    1/27/11
  - + 8 More Credits
- Rescue Me
  Johnny Gavin
  - S 5: Ep 13 Torch
    6/30/09
  - S 5: Ep 8 Iceman
    5/26/09
  - S 4: Ep 2 Tuesday
    6/20/07
  - S 3: Ep 12 Hell
    8/22/06
  - S 3: Ep 11 Twilight
    8/15/06
  - + 23 More Credits
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
  Charley Dixon
  - S 2: Ep 20 To the Lighthouse
    3/27/09
  - S 2: Ep 3 The Mousetrap
    9/22/08
  - S 2: Ep 2 Automatic for the People
    9/15/08
  - S 2: Ep 1 Samson and Delilah
    9/8/08
  - S 1: Ep 9 What He Beheld
    3/3/08
  - + 4 More Credits
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Det. Brian Cassidy
  - S 1: Ep 13 Disrobed
    2/4/00
  - S 1: Ep 12 Russian Love Poem
    1/21/00
  - S 1: Ep 11 Bad Blood
    1/14/00
  - S 1: Ep 10 Closure
    1/7/00
  - S 1: Ep 9 Stocks & Bondage
    11/29/99
  - + 8 More Credits
Guest Star (16)

Role
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Det. Brian Cassidy
  - S 13: Ep 23 Rhodium Nights
    5/23/12
- Life On Mars
  Vic Tyler
  - S 1: Ep 17 Life is a Rock
    4/1/09
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Man Who Sold the World
    11/20/08
  - S 1: Ep 3 My Maharishi is Bigger than Your Maharishi
    10/23/08
- TMZ
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 110 Episode #2.110
    1/13/09
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  Mike Stoat
  - S 7: Ep 11 Purgatory
    6/8/08
- CSI: Miami
  Raymond Caine
  - S 3: Ep 24 10-7
    5/23/05
- The Twilight Zone
  Mr. Gordon
  - S 1: Ep 21 Future Trade
    11/27/02
- CSI: Miami
  Raymond Caine Sr
  - S 1: Ep 1 Golden Parachute
    9/23/02
- Third Watch
  Bill Stram
  - S 3: Ep 18 The Unforgiven
    4/15/02
- Deadline
  Des
  - S 1: Ep 12 Shock
    4/7/01
- Saturday Night Live
  Ryan O'Reilly
  - S 25: Ep 2 Jerry Seinfeld/David Bowie
    10/2/99
- Sex and the City
  John McFadden
  - S 2: Ep 14 The Fuck Buddy
    9/5/99
- Millennium
  Young Michael Lanyard
  - S 3: Ep 14 Matryoshka
    2/19/99
- New York Undercover
  Paul Delaney
  - S 4: Ep 6 Rat Trap
    3/12/98
- Millennium
  Mr. Crocell
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Curse of Frank Black
    10/31/97
- NYPD Blue
  Larry Duncan
  - S 4: Ep 5 Where'd the Van Gogh?
    11/19/96
- Homicide: Life on the Street
  Tom Marans
  - S 5: Ep 3 Prison Riot
    10/18/96
  - S 4: Ep 5 Hate Crimes
    11/17/95
  - S 3: Ep 18 Nothing Personal
    4/21/95

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- Dean appeared in Shyne's music video 'Bonnie and Shyne'.
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- Dean's brother, Scott Winters, is also an actor, and he played Ryan O'Reily's own brother Cyril on 'Oz'. Dean's other brother, Brad, also wrote for 'Oz', making 'Oz' a family affair for the Winter brothers.
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- Dean Winters worked with Christopher Meloni in both 'Law and Order: SVU' and 'Oz'. In 'SVU' Winters played Detective Cassidy, and in 'Oz' Prisoner Ryan O'Riley. After doing almost a full season of 'SVU', Winters left the 'Law and Order' cast to become one of the most recognisable stars of 'Oz'.
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- Dean Winters: (on 'Oz') It's so much fucking fun. I wish we would do more episodes during the season. I've worked on so many bad TV things. I'd go to work and I'd just be like, oh Christ ...
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- Dean Winters: (on being true to character) I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.
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- Dean Winters: (on how he'd personally survive prison) I probably wouldn't do real well. I have a couple of really good friends who've done time - one of them's in right now -and I think that it takes more than inherent toughness. I think I would have a lot of problems.
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