When Universal Pictures picked up the film, the role went to Willem Dafoe. In 1983, Quinn lost the role of Jesus Christ when Paramount Pictures dropped the distribution rights to the Martin Scorsese movie The Last Temptation of Christ. He played escaped convict Richard "Stick" Montgomery in the action comedy Stakeout opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez. He made a short impressive contribution as Robert De Niro's brother in The Mission. He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the role. Quinn next starred in the controversial television film An Early Frost, about a young gay lawyer dying of AIDS (it was broadcast on NBC on November 11, 1985, and co-starred Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara and Sylvia Sidney). His first significant film role was in Reckless, followed by a breakthrough role in Desperately Seeking Susan as the character "Dez" (the love interest of the character played by Rosanna Arquette). His brother Paul, an actor and director, died in 2015 at the age of 55. His older brother, Declan Quinn, is a cinematographer, and his younger sister, Marian, is an actress, director and writer. He trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop. When he was nineteen and working as a roofer, Quinn realized he wanted to become an actor. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, but also worked as a bookkeeper and in the travel business, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of English literature at Rock Valley College. He was raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly, Ireland. Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Irish Catholic parents.
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