Jeremy Renner

Highest Rated: 97% The Hurt Locker (2009)

Lowest Rated: 0% National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995)

Birthday: Jan 7, 1971

Birthplace: Modesto, California, USA

A former die-hard theater actor who made a comfortable transition to screens both big and small in the late '90s, Jeremy Renner drew praise and courted controversy with his portrayal of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. A California native, Renner discovered his love for acting while drifting through various majors at college. He dabbled in computer science and criminology before taking an acting class, and soon decided to double major in theater and psychology, the stage offering the struggling student a healthy outlet for his sometimes bottled emotions. After graduation, the aspiring actor moved to Los Angeles in hopes of finding work. A starring role in the play Search and Destroy (which he also co-directed) earned Renner positive notice from critics, and, in 1995, he made his feature debut in the critically panned gross-out comedy National Lampoon's Senior Trip. Numerous film and television supporting roles followed, including a 1999 guest-starring appearance as a former puritan turned menacing vampire on the popular WB series Angel. Three years later, and despite bearing almost no physical resemblance to the titular character, Renner's chillingly low-key performance as a true-life murderer and cannibal in the biopic Dahmer earned him an Independent Spirit Award Best Actor nomination. In 2003, he received more exposure in a role opposite Colin Farrell in the big-budget action thriller S.W.A.T. After taking the lead as an institutionalized member of the Aryan Nation in Neo Ned, he then stepped before the camera for Italian actress/director Asia Argento in J.T. LeRoy's 2004 screen adaptation of his story collection The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.Renner scored big roles in the drama North Country and the zombie sequel 28 Weeks Later before heading up the quirky TV cop show The Unusuals, which lasted only one season on ABC. However, his work in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, as a soldier who specializes in disarming IED's in Iraq, brought him stellar reviews and a number of industry accolades including Best Actor nominations from The Screen Actors Guild, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Academy. He aslo won that very same award from numerous critics groups.Two years later he returned to the Oscar race for his supporting turn as Ben Affleck's best frined in The Town. He would follow that up with a pair of giant box office hits, co-starring opposite Tom Cruise in the fourth Mission: Impossible movie, and then taking the part of Hawkeye in The Avengers in 2012. That same year he would take over the part of Jason Bourne in The Bourne Legacy, and he lent his voice to the animated film Ice Age: Continental Drift. He appeared in the Academy Award-nominated American Hustle in 2013 and then filled his plate with sequels like The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Mission: Impossible 5.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
12%	Arctic Dogs	Swifty	—	2019
94%	Avengers: Endgame	Clint Barton / Hawkeye	—	2019
56%	Tag	Jerry Pierce	—	2018
87%	Wind River	Cory Lambert	$33.8M	2017
20%	The House	Actor	$25.6M	2017
81%	The Founder	Producer	$12.8M	2017
94%	Arrival	Ian Donnelly	$100.6M	2016
90%	Captain America: Civil War	Clint Barton/Hawkeye	$408.1M	2016
94%	Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation	William Brandt	$155M	2015
No Score Yet	The Throwaways	Executive Producer	—	2015
77%	Kill the Messenger	Gary Webb Producer	$2.5M	2014
85%	The Immigrant	Orlando the Magician	$1.4M	2014
92%	American Hustle	Carmine Polito	$99.2M	2013
16%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters	Hansel	$55M	2013
No Score Yet	Ingenious	Sam	—	2012
55%	The Bourne Legacy	Aaron Cross	$113.2M	2012
37%	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Gutt	$161.4M	2012
93%	Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol	William Brandt	$209.4M	2011
92%	The Town	James Coughlin	$92.2M	2010
97%	The Hurt Locker	Staff Sgt. William James	$15.8M	2009
45%	Take	Saul Gregor	—	2008
76%	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Wood Hite	$4M	2007
71%	28 Weeks Later...	Doyle	$28.6M	2007
33%	A Little Trip to Heaven	Fred	—	2007
73%	Twelve and Holding	Gus Maitland	—	2006
No Score Yet	Love Comes to the Executioner	Chick Prigusivac	—	2006
69%	North Country	Bobby Sharp	$18.4M	2005
80%	Neo Ned	Ned	—	2005
41%	The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things	Emerson	—	2004
48%	S.W.A.T.	Brian Gamble	$116.7M	2003
72%	Dahmer	Jeffrey Dahmer	—	2002
No Score Yet	Monkey Love	Dil	—	2002
No Score Yet	Fish in a Barrel	Remy	—	2001
No Score Yet	A Nightmare Come True	Steven Zarn	—	1997
0%	National Lampoon's Senior Trip	Dags	—	1995

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	The World Wars 2014	Narrator Actor	2020 2014
57%	Knightfall 2017-2019	Executive Producer	2019 2018 2017
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2019 2015 2012 2011
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015	Guest	2018 2017 2016 2015
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2018 2015 2010
No Score Yet	Sunday Morning 2011-2018	Appearing	2017
No Score Yet	Harry 2016-2018	Guest	2017 2016
No Score Yet	The Graham Norton Show 2007	Guest	2016 2015 2013
No Score Yet	Conan 2010	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest Actor	2013 2010 2009
No Score Yet	CBS This Morning 2012	Guest	2012
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Host	2012
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2012
No Score Yet	Last Call With Carson Daly 2007-2019	Guest	2010 2009 2008
72%	The Unusuals 2009	Det. Jason Walsh Jason Walsh	2009
90%	House 2004-2012	Quidd	2007 2005
No Score Yet	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000-2015	Robert Jennings	2001 2000
88%	Angel 1999-2004	Penn	2000
45%	Time of Your Life 1999-2000	Taylor	1999
No Score Yet	Hawkeye 2021	Actor

Quotes from Jeremy Renner's Characters

William Brandt:	23 minutes till door knock.
Ethan Hunt:	Your countdown, is not helping!

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	We haven't met. I'm Clint.
T'Challa/Black Panther:	I don't care.

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow:	Are we still friends?
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow:	Weâ??re still friends, right?
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow:	We're still friends, right?
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	That depends on how hard you punch me.
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	Depends on how hard you hit me.
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	That depends on how hard you hit me.

Aaron Cross:	Speaking to a wolf You should have left me alone.
Aaron Cross:	Speaking to a wolf. You should have left me alone.

William Brandt:

That's a high speed chase! You just had to get the four-by-four, didn't you?!

William Brandt:

I can neither confirm nor deny any specific action without the Secretary's approval.

Ethan Hunt:	Benji!
Benji:	Ethan?
Ethan Hunt:	Open The Door!
Benji:	Ok!
William Brandt:	Benji Open That Door Right Now!
Luther Strickell:	Come On!

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:

You step outside that door, you're an Avenger.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:

I've done the whole mind control thing. Not a fan.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:

We're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow.

James Coughlin:

If we get jammed up, we're holding court on the street.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	How'd you get him out?
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow:	Cognitive recalibration
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	(looks confused)
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow:	I hit you really hard on the head

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:

Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out and stuff something else in? Do you know what it's like to be unmade?

Hansel:	I'm old fashioned,, but Gretel needs more convincing to clarify that someone is a witch
Hansel:	I'm old fashioned but Gretel needs more convincing to clarify that someone is a witch.

Hansel:	The name's Hansel, and this here is my sister, Gretel
Hansel:	The name's Hansel, and this here is my sister, Gretel.

Hansel:

Who the fuck is Edward?

Hansel:

Don't! Just don't.

Staff Sgt. William James:

And the older you get, the fewer things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things.

William Brandt:	[After Ethan ropes down the Burj, only to stop] Your line's not long enough!
William Brandt:	Your line's not long enough!
Ethan Hunt:	NO SHIT!!!
Ethan Hunt:	No shit!

Hansel:

One thing this job has taught me over the years: DON'T EAT THE FUCKING CANDY!

Hansel:

We kill witches! What do you do?

Hansel:

Most people will say witches aren't real, it's stuff of fairy tales. Then, one day, they show up at your door and eat your kids. That's where we come in!

Hansel:

Who the fuck is Edward?

Bill White:	What's it going to be this time yellow or red? Yellow or red? YELLOW OR RED?
Bobby Sharp:	What was I supposed to do?

Ethan Hunt:	Saturn, take the leap.
William Brandt:	[exhales deeply] Ok. [clears throat] Jumping. Jumping now. Jump now?
Ethan Hunt:	Yes, commit, jump.
William Brandt:	Jump.
Ethan Hunt:	Jump.
Benji Dunn:	And I catch you.
Ethan Hunt:	Now.
William Brandt:	So, uh, you're sure about this suit, right, Benji?
Benji Dunn:	Pretty sure.
William Brandt:	[laughs sarcastically] Now you're pretty sure?

Ethan Hunt:	Comm check.
Ethan Hunt:	Come check.
William Brandt:	Saturn's got your five-by-five, Jupiter.
Benji Dunn:	This is Pluto. I have arrived at the party.

Benji Dunn:	The science is sound, all right? I'd be more worried about the heat.
William Brandt:	And then there's that. What heat?
Benji Dunn:	[laughing] Well, it's like any computer, isn't it? If you switch off the fan, it's gonna get really hot.
William Brandt:	[laughing sarcastically] Of course.
Benji Dunn:	Relatively, you know.
William Brandt:	Of course it will. So I'm jumping into, uh, an oven, essentially.
Benji Dunn:	Yeah, essentially. But, um, I'll catch you.
William Brandt:	[unconvinced] Great.

William Brandt:	OK, yeah, but you, um, just breezed over something I think is really important. The computer array part, where I just...jump?
William Brandt:	OK, yeah, but you, um, just breezed over something I think is really important. The computer array part, where I just... jump?
Benji Dunn:	And I catch you.
William Brandt:	Yeah
Benji Dunn:	I don't... Why is that so hard to grasp?
William Brandt:	Well, yeah, why? It's a 25 foot drop. And we're using magnets.
Benji Dunn:	[grinning] Yeah.

Hansel:

[when asked how to kill a witch] Cutting off her head tends to work.

Gretel:	[starring at a traped witch] She looks angry.
Hansel:	Wouldn't you be if you had a face like that?

Aaron Cross:

Now, I've got a plan, and it's just not that complicated. What I'm going to do is wait for the next person to show up to kill you. Maybe they can help me.

Ned:	Maybe we can keep in contact after the revolution.
Rachael:	What are you talking about?
Ned:	You know, keep in contact after the war. After the whites get their own nation.
Rachael:	You already have your own nation.
Ned:	We can write letters! i'm sure there's gonna be mail delivered between the quadrants. Heck, maybe we can even visit each other.
Rachael:	Just so I understand...um...you wanna have a war to divide up the country, in order to keep blacks away from the whites, then sneak across the border and meet me for coffee?

Hansel:	Some people will say that not all witches are evil. That they're powers could be used for god. I say BURN THEM ALL!
Hansel:	Some people will say that not all witches are evil. That they're powers could be used for good. I say BURN THEM ALL!

Aaron Cross:	June. Your name is June Munroe. Say it.
Dr. Marta Shearing:	June Munroe.
Aaron Cross:	Say it.
Aaron Cross:	Now, pick a place you lived. The last place you lived. The place you know.
Dr. Marta Shearing:	Bethesda.
Aaron Cross:	Bethesda. That's where you lived. Anybody ask, you're June Monroe from Bethesda.
Aaron Cross:	You lost your wallet. I'm driving you home. My name is James. James and June. Got it?

Staff Sgt. William James:

You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your Mommy, your Daddy. You love your pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yeah. But you know what, buddy? As you get older... some of the things you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you'll realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. And the older you get, the fewer things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one.

Dr. Marta Shearing:	You've been shot!
Aaron Cross:	That's all right.

Aaron Cross:

How many of us are there?

Aaron Cross:

You've done enough for me.

Thor:	I have unfinished business with him.
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	Yeah, well get in line.

Aaron Cross:

Salamat.

Aaron Cross:

I'll get my bag.

Doug MacRay:	I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people.
James Coughlin:	Whose car are we gonna take?

James Coughlin:	Well if they were easy kid, everyone is gonna do them
James Coughlin:	Well if they were easy kid, everyone is gonna do them.

Rachael:	I've gotta go home.
Ned:	This is your home. This is our home.
Rachael:	This is us playing house.

Ned:	They were probably some fucking Jews.
Rachael:	Oh God, Ned, wake up! They were assholes! Get it?! Assholes! Whether they were white, Jewish, black, they were assholes! You wanna hate somebody so badly, hate the fricking assholes! 'Cause they're everywhere.

Aaron Cross:

Do you want to live? Cause I wanna live.

Ethan Hunt:	Did you jump?
Brandt:	Should I not have jumped? Cause I jumped!

Dil:	so you slept with Aaron too?
Dil:	So you slept with Aaron too?
Amy:	It was an accident.
Dil:	Call Allstate.

Benji Dunn:	Why am I Pluto? It's not even a planet anymore.
William Brandt:	Well, I think Uranus is available.
Benji Dunn:	Ha ha haa, That's funny 'cause you said anus.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	Can you gimme a lift up there?
Tony Stark/Iron Man:	Sure thing, better clench up, Legolas.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:

I've got him.

Benji Dunn:	We're going to need to access the server from the outside.
Ethan Hunt:	We?
Benji Dunn:	Oh, I'm just the computer guy.
Ethan Hunt:	(Looks at Brandt)
Ethan Hunt:	[looks at Brandt]
William Brandt:	I'm just the helper.

James Coughlin:

Whos car are we gonna take?

Tony Stark/Iron Man:	What else [have] you got?
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	Well, Thor's taking on a squadron on Sixth.
Tony Stark/Iron Man:	And he didn't invite me...

Captain America:	Are you sure you can hold them off!
Hawkeye:	Captain, it would be my genuine pleasure

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	Why am I back? How did you get him out?
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow:	Cognitive recalibration I hit you really hard in the head.
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	Thanks.

James Coughlin:	this is yours fucking pineapple pizza?
James Coughlin:	This is your fucking pineapple pizza?

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	[Picks up his bow from weapons case] I need a distraction and an eyeball.
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	[picks up his bow from weapons case] I need a distraction and an eyeball.

Captain America:	You think you can hold them off?
Hawkeye:	Captain, it would be my genuine pleasure.

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow:	This is just like Budapest, huh?
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	You and I remember Budapest very differently.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye:

I see better from a distance.

Gutt:

Surrender your ship, or face my fury!

Gutt:

Battle stations!

Steve Rogers/Captain America:	Have you got a suit?
Clint Barton/Hawkeye:	Yeah.
Steve Rogers/Captain America:	Then suit up.

Gutt:	[Laughs evilly]
Gutt:	[laughs evilly]

Gutt:

FIRE!

William Brandt:	What about me?
Benji Dunn:	You're the helper.
William Brandt:	Helper umm
William Brandt:	Helper umm...

Brandt:	YOU'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!
Ethan Hunt:	You're not helping!

Hawkeye:

I got him.

Benji:	We have to get there from the outside.
Ethan Hunt:	WE?
Benji:	Well, I'm on the computer.
Brandt:	And I'm just the helper, right?

Brandt:

That's it. Next time I get to seduce the rich guy.

Brandt:	23 minutes until knocking!
Ethan Hunt:	That countdown isn't helping!
Brandt:	(slightly offended) Just sayin'...
Brandt:	[slightly offended] Just sayin'.

Benji Dunn:	How come I'm Pluto? I'm not even a planet.
Brandt:	There's always Uranus (grins).
Brandt:	There's always Uranus [grins].
Benji Dunn:	Hah, that was funny, 'cos you said anus.

Gutt:

[To Scrat] Welcome aboard... mate! [All the pirates laugh]

Brandt:

[after getting out of a giant fan] That's it. Next time, I get to seduce the rich guy.

Brandt:	YOU'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!
Ethan Hunt:	You're not helping.

Ethan Hunt:	Who are you really, Brandt?
Brandt:	We all have our secrets. Don't we, Ethan?

James Coughlin:	Money Bitch,(laughs) what the fuck you doing here
James Coughlin:	Money, bitch. [Doug freezes then turns and sees it's Jem]
James Coughlin:	What the fuck you doin' here? Huh?

Doug MacRay:	I cant be out there killing people
Doug MacRay:	You can't be up there killing people.
James Coughlin:	Hey you brought me
James Coughlin:	Hey, you brought me.

Staff Sgt. William James:

[Speaking to his son] You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your Mommy, your Daddy. You love your pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yea. But you know what, buddy? As you get older... some of the things you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you'll realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. And the older you get, the fewer things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one.

Staff Sgt. William James:

Staff Sgt. William James:	If I'm Gonna Die, I Wanna Die Confortable
Staff Sgt. William James:	If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable.

Doug MacRay:	I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, I wanna hurt some people.
Doug MacRay:	I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people.
James Coughlin:	Who's ccar are we gunna take?
James Coughlin:	Whose car are we gonna' take?

Staff Sgt. William James:	In this box is everything that could have killed me.
Sgt. Matt Thompson:	Why is your wedding ring in here?
Staff Sgt. William James:	Like I said thing that could have killed me.

Doug MacRay:	Don't you think we need to be smart right now?
James Coughlin:	Smart!? Lets start fuckin' all the witness's... alright yeah, I'm blowin' the assistant manager, am I smart now?

James Coughlin:	Well I know your happy in fuck-city over there but I waited nine years in Walpole for you Motherfucker, just nine years that's all. I'm done waiting
James Coughlin:	Well I know your happy in fuck-city over there but I waited nine years in Walpole for you Motherfucker, just nine years that's all. I'm done waiting.

James Coughlin:	Poor fuckin sober bastard
James Coughlin:	Poor fucking sober bastard.

James Coughlin:	Tell me you got a move here, Dougie. Cause the only way I see it, is that you got sprung like a goddamn bear trap on some toonie pussy who happens to be the one goddamn person-fuck! the one person that can give us to the fucking feds
James Coughlin:	Tell me you got a move here, Dougie. Cause the only way I see it, is that you got sprung like a goddamn bear trap on some toonie pussy who happens to be the one goddamn person, fuck! The one person that can give us to the fucking feds.