Jake Muxworthy on AllMovie

Actor Jake Muxworthy emerged as an onscreen presence in the early 2000s, when he gradually transitioned from bit parts to higher billing, and concurrently developed and honed a reputation for tackling intense, demanding material, often in the horror or thriller genres. Muxworthy landed one of his first roles when he signed to play a paramedic in the Jet Li action opus Cradle 2 the Grave; he followed that up with a key supporting part in David O. Russell's heady, existential comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004). The actor then accepted his first lead -- as the comparatively less twisted of a psychopathic serial killer's two sons, in Morgan J. Freeman's shocker Born Killers (2005). Muxworthy extended his track record of dark and disturbing material by essaying a lead in the horror opus Asylum (2007) -- as one of several students who must combat a possessed dormitory -- and he signed for one of the main roles in the same year's Bordertown, a slasher picture about a Mexican town on the border beset by a series of grisly killings.