Jeff Fahey, at the age of 56, with his beard and untidy grayish hair still has the same alluring presence he had on screen twenty years ago. With his haunting blue eyes and handsome roguish look, he has, in his appearance in Lost developed a cult...
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Jeff Fahey, at the age of 56, with his beard and untidy grayish hair still has the same alluring presence he had on screen twenty years ago. With his haunting blue eyes and handsome roguish look, he has, in his appearance in Lost developed a cult of Lost followers who treasure him as one of the finest additions to the Lost series and hope to see more of him over the upcoming seasons.

Part of Jeff's charm is his mysterious mannerism. Not much is known about Jeff except for his extensive biography detailing mostly his travel abroad in his youth. I have found that the same biography circulates on almost every website that holds Jeff's biography with no additional information available. As the editor of his page on www.tv.com I read and re-read the few interviews I found on the web in order to collect tiny tidbits about the man, then I went into all the chats, message boards, websites etc. related to him and collected whatever I could find that seemed interesting. Though there's hardly any information about him, it's been fascinating and captivating. I love a good mystery and Jeff is a great one. Not to mention that his extensive travel to Afghanistan to build and support an orphanage and to promote women's rights just adds to the man charm.

The only fault I can find with him is his choice of movies. He is, no doubt, a very talented actor, as can be seen in the 1990 movie White Hunter, Black Heart (which is my personal favorite Jeff Fahey movie), The Lawnmower Man (1992), The Marshal (1995), Planet Terror (2007) and of course Lost (the 4th season) which makes it all the harder to understand why, he would choose to participate in movies such as Scorpius Gigantus (2006) or Absolute Zero (2005) which I recently watched. The plot of Absolute Zero's story, though scientifically entirely incorrect was interesting enough, but the acting was just awful. I think other than Jeff's character, all the other characters were extremely shallow, the cast was poorly chosen and some of the actors/actresses should never have been allowed to participate in any movie. There are a few other examples of poorly chosen movies but it doesn't really matter, because on a scale from 1 to 10, I'll still give Jeff a full 10 because there's just something about him. It's uncanny, but I'll admit it, there's something about his presence that will make me sit through his movies, even be it a low budget B movie, with a cast that does not know how to act. And you know what, I'm sure there are many others that feel the same way as me, and that is perhaps why he can afford to get away with B-movies.