查理·辛，美国影视演员。父亲是演员，，母亲珍妮·希恩是艺术系科班出身。年幼的查理就开始对父亲的表演职业产生了兴趣。9岁时， 查理在一部电视剧中担任了一个小 查理与前妻丹尼斯·理查德兹角色，这是他表演生涯的开始，而影片《大白鲨》（《JAWS》1975）的上映更给了查理极大的影响。他立志将来要向电影界发展。

1978年查理·辛前往菲律宾探望正在参加影片《现代启示录》（《ApocalypseNow》）的拍摄的父亲，并得以在片中饰演了一个配角。查理·辛并没有接受过正规的电影表演教育，对他来说，父亲就是他最好的指导教师，此外他也多次在他哥哥执导的影片中担任过角色。这些使他对表演的技巧有了深刻的领悟和体会。　1986年，查理辛在大导演奥立弗·斯通的名片《野战排》中出演了主角克里斯。影片获得了巨大的成功。查理的表现也得到了广泛的赞誉，并由此一举成名。

　　1987年他又参与了影片《华尔街》的演出，在片中他入木三分地刻画了一个唯利是图的贪婪经纪人的形象。影片的成功使查理辛再次扩大了自己的影响。此后他又拍摄了《青年枪手》、《八人出局》和《公路三部曲》等影片，其表现也都十分出色。

　　1993年，查理辛又参与了重拍片《三个火枪手》的演出。在这部影片中他饰演年轻英勇而足智多谋的火枪手阿拉密斯。他极其成功地塑造了这位大仲马笔下的英雄形象，再次展现了他那卓越的演艺才华。

　　90年代中期，无论是个人生活还是职业表演上，查理都遭遇了寒冬。招妓、吸毒，成了他生活中非常重要的部分。1996年，他的前女友布列塔妮·艾什兰指控他从身体上虐待了她，查理因此被判处1年监禁，缓期2年执行，同时被罚款2800美元。1998年，因吸毒过量被送进医院，后又再次被送进戒毒中心。这一时期他所拍的电影，象《天袭》(The Arrival)(1996) 、《火线惊爆点》(Shadow Conspiracy) (1997)等，票房非常惨淡。

　　90年代结束，新世纪到来之后，查理的命运也彻底得到改变。先是在ABC的热播电视剧《政界小人物》(Spin City)中替代迈克尔·福克斯，吸引了CBS主管人员的眼球，被选入《人人都爱雷蒙德》(Everybody Loves Raymond)等电视剧集的阵容。尤其是他在《好汉两个半》(Two and a Half Men)中的入神表演，为他走入下坡路的演艺事业注入一股新的活力。

　　2002年，他和演员同事丹尼斯·理查德结婚。2004年3月有了一个女儿，不久丹尼斯再次怀孕。媒体关于两人婚姻的报道都是积极的、正面的，但好景不长，和以前每次婚姻一样，查理和丹尼斯的婚姻没有能够长久，两人于2005年3月离婚。

Randy Quaid is an Academy Award-nominated actor, for his performance in The Last Detail (1973) . Hal Ashby directed Quaid in the role of Meadows opposite Jack Nicholson and Otis Young. Quaid is a great and much-admired actor that has been recognized by Hollywood and the world's finest directors, Midnight Express, The Last Picture Show, Ice Harvest (2005), Real Time (2008), King Carlos in Goya's Ghosts (2006) for director Milos Forman. Forman cast Quaid as "King Carlos IV of Spain" after seeing his Golden Globe-nominated performance as The Colonel in Elvis. Quaid also starred in such mainstream favorites as Kingpin (1996), Vacation (1983), Christmas Vacation (1989) and Independence day (1996).

Quaid earned a Golden Globe for portraying Lyndon Johnson, and received a Golden Globe Nomination for incarnating "Colonel" Tom Parker in Elvis (2005). The portrait of Colonel Parker, a former carnival barker with a murky past, is dark. The New York Times said "Mr. Quaid is riveting as the bully of Graceland" when he has Elvis firmly under his thumb, he is the L.B.J. of rock 'n' roll - a towering, wheedling, tirelessly self-promoting Southern fox in the rare instances when Elvis defies him, Colonel Parker shrinks into a hand-wringing phony, cajoling his only client in the overly ornate language of Professor Marvel in "The Wizard of Oz".

Quaid stars in and was nominated for The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a cast for his work in Brokeback Mountain(2005), directed by Ang Lee from a script written by Larry McMurtry, who also wrote The Last Picture Show (1971) in which Quaid had his first feature film role. Working with McMurtry and supporting his material has become a Randy Quaid career tradition. Quaid's performance in Brokeback Mountain (2005) was listed as one of the New York Observer's 2005 Noteworthy male performances. In 2009 Randy Quaid Won the Vancouver Critics Award for Best Male Performance in the Feature Film Real-Time for the Role of Rubin