Portrayed by Thomas Jane (The Punisher) in a mercurial, star-turn performance, Andre Stander is a young, white policeman enjoying the comforts of middle-class married life in late-1970s South Africa, a country riven by Apartheid.
After killing an unarmed black man during Riot Patrol, Stander wordlessly makes a decision to defy the very system he has spent a lifetime enforcing. Stander's form of civil disobedience, however, takes an unusual form: a series of audacious, high-flying bank robberies, with the young police officer oftentimes returning to the scene of the crime as the lead investigating officer.
THOMAS JANE (Andre Stander)
Displaying astonishing versatility with a wide range of upcoming films, Thomas Jane combines a leading man's profile with a character actor's art of performance.
Jane is currently preparing for his starring role as the title character in the big-screen adaptation of Marvel Comic's The Punisher, for Lions Gate Films by training with former Navy SEALS. In that film, Jane stars as FBI undercover agent Frank Castle, whose family is executed as a consequence of his final undercover assignment. With unparalleled intensity, ferocious intelligence and fearless actions, Castle seeks to punish the murderers and finds the one thing he least expected: redemption.
Most recently, Jane starred in Lawrence Kasdan's Dreamcatcher, opposite Morgan Freeman, Tom Sizemore, Donnie Wahlberg and Timothy Olyphant. The thriller, based on the novel by Stephen King, follows the eerie reunion of four boyhood pals during a pilgrimage to their favorite deep-woods cabin, where they meet a mysterious stranger.
Jane starred as baseball legend Mickey Mantle in HBO's Emmy nominated 61*. Helmed by Billy Crystal, 61* tells the story of the race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, waged in 1961 between the New York Yankees' Roger Maris (Barry Pepper) and Mickey Mantle.
Jane's other recent film credits include the romantic comedy The Sweetest Thing, starring opposite Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair; Eden, opposite Samantha Morton, which premiered at the 2001 Venice Film Festival; the independent thriller Under Suspicion, opposite Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and Monica Belucci, which premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film festival.
Jane is well-known for his starring role in the Renny Harlin thriller, Deep Blue Sea, also starring Samuel L. Jackson, Saffron Burrows and LL Cool J; and for Terrence Malick's Academy Award-nominated World War II drama, The Thin Red Line, co-starring Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack and Adrien Brody.
He received critical praise for his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, opposite Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle and William H. Macy. The cast was nominated for a 1998 SAG Award for Best Ensemble Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture.
Other film roles include Neal Cassady in Stephen Kay's independent drama The Last Time I Committed Suicide, opposite Keanu Reeves and Claire Forlani; and Lance Lane's Junked, reprising the role he originated in the stage production at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre.
