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Randy Quaid
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Randy Quaid's Parents and Wife: 9 Family Facts
- #005
He married his wife Evi Quaid three times: once in Montecito, California; once near his favorite hotel in Hollywood and his Walk of Fame star; and once in Toronto, Canada, since applying for refugee status. They married in 1989 at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California. Twenty years later, in 2009, they were arrested on charges of defrauding an innkeeper, conspiracy and theft for allegedly skipping a $10,000 bill at the same hotel after a long stay there in June 2009. It later emerged that $73,000 in excess charges had been made on the credit card used.
- #009
In his spare time he enjoys painting.
- #010
He played the character Doc Holliday in the film Purgatory (1999). His brother Dennis Quaid played the same character in the film Wyatt Earp (1994).
- #015
He was exactly five inches taller than his brother Dennis Quaid.
- #016
He attended the University of Houston.
- #017
Quaid's father, Buddy Quaid, told Randy that he was a twice-removed first cousin of the entertainer Gene Autry. Gene's maternal grandparents, Andrew Clinton Ozment and Margaret Malinda Pierce, were also Quaid's paternal great-great-grandparents. Quaid is also said to be a cousin of Richard Harris, but no evidence of this has surfaced.
- #023
Randy Quaid is the father of seven frozen embryos with his wife Evi Quaid. He has a child named Amanda Quaid from his marriage to his former wife Ella Jolly.
- #026
Randy Quaid's father, Buddy Quaid (born William Jesse Rudy John Quaid, Jr.), left the family after Randy moved to Hollywood and gave Quaid a half-sister named Brandy Quaid and a half-brother named Buddy Quaid (full name: William Jesse Rudy John Quaid III).
- #027
Randy Quaid is the uncle of Zoe Grace Quaid, Boone Quaid and Jack Quaid.
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