American screen actor who was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in 2000 film Tigerland. Among his other noted films are Pitch Black (2000), The Cave (2005) and Transcendence (2014).
On television he starred as Officer Randy Willitz on the police crime drama series High Incident (1996) and Ethan Kelly on the police drama Rogue (2014-2017). He currently stars as Rip Wheeler on the Paramount Network western drama series Yellowstone (2018-).
He is the son of Cass Warner, who founded the film production company Warner Sisters, and actor Wings Hauser. His paternal grandfather was Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dwight Hauser. One of Cole’s maternal great-grandfathers was film mogul Harry Warner, a founding partner of Warner Bros., and his maternal grandfather was Milton Sperling, a Hollywood screenwriter and independent film producer. Hauser’s maternal grandmother, Betty Mae Warner, a painter, sculptor, political activist and gallery owner, was married to Stanley Sheinbaum, a noted political activist, economist, philanthropist, and a former Los Angeles Police Department commissioner.
Hauser is of Irish and German descent on his father’s side and Jewish on his mother’s. His parents divorced in 1977, when he was two years old. According to him, at roughly fifteen, he first met his father.
In 2006 Hauser married actress and photographer Cynthia Daniel. They have three children, son Ryland (2004), son Colt (2008) and daughter Steely Rose (2012).
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