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Brett is an accomplished film, television and theater actor. He grew up in Houston, Texas and attended the University of Houston, where he met one of his greatest acting influences, Cecil Pickett. Brett was a competitive fencer at the University of Houston and spent four seasons with the prestigious Houston Shakespeare Festival. After graduating from U of H in the late seventies, Brett almost attended Asolo Theatre, State Theatre of Florida to obtain his masters degree and work as a member of the company while focusing on stage fighting, stage combat and dialects. However, he ended up heading west to Los Angeles instead, where he landed his first television series, "The Chisholms." You can see his fencing skills in the movie "By the Sword" with Eric Roberts, as well as in the "Legacy" episode "Just Kissed." In 1983, he was cast as Bob Cleary in the blockbuster miniseries "The Thorn Birds." That role was soon followed by another miniseries, "Eureka Stockade." In 1986 he starred in the prime time soap opera "Falcon Crest" and then later played a season as Marshal Sam Cain on "The Young Riders." Brett has enjoyed a successful career, starring in such films as "Apollo 13," "Something to Talk About," "The Killing Jar," "Courage Under Fire," "The Hired Heart" Tom Hanks' HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon," and the television series, "Legacy." Part of Brett's stage credits include "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "Macbeth," "Merry Wives of Windsor,"...

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