Sam Quinn is an actor born in 1958, best known for his roles in Transcendence (2014), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) and Jane Got a Gun (2015). He has been in the entertainment industry for many years and continues to be a successful actor.
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Sam Quinn, the renowned actor, is expected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million by the year 2024. Born in 1958, Sam Quinn has established himself as a prominent figure in the entertainment industry. With a successful career spanning several decades, his talent and dedication have earned him substantial wealth. As an accomplished actor, Sam Quinn's net worth is projected to grow even further, reflecting his ongoing contribution and success in the world of film and television.
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Biography/Timeline
1977
Quinones grew up in Claremont, California. He graduated from Claremont High School in 1977 and then attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with B.A. degrees in Economics and American History.
1987
He took his first journalism job in 1987 at the Orange County Register. The next year he moved to Stockton, California, where he spent four years working as a crime reporter for the Stockton Record. In 1992, he moved to Seattle, where he covered county government and politics for the Tacoma News-Tribune.
1994
He left for Mexico in 1994 where he worked as a freelance reporter. Quinones returned to the United States in 2004 and now works for the Los Angeles Times, covering immigration-related stories and gangs.
1998
In 1998, he was selected as a recipient of the Alicia Patterson Fellowship, for a series of stories on impunity in Mexican villages. In 2008, he was awarded a Maria Moors Cabot prize, by Columbia University, for a career of excellence in covering Latin America.
2011
In 2011, he started a storytelling experiment, called "Tell Your True Tale" on his website. The site aims to encourage new Writers to write their own stories. At last count it had more than 50 stories posted.
2012
He has lectured a more than 50 universities across the United States. In 2012, he gave a lecture at the University of Arizona entitled “So Far from Mexico City, So Close to God: Stories of Mexican Immigrants" and of Mexico's Escape from History.”
2013
In 2013, he took a leave of absence from the paper to work on his book Dreamland about the opioid epidemic in America, focusing on abuse of prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin and the spread of Mexican black-tar heroin, primarily by men from the town of Xalisco, Nayarit.
2014
In 2014, Quinones left the Los Angeles Times to "return to freelancing, writing for National Geographic, Pacific Standard Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Magazine, and several other publications."
2017
Writing for the Los Angeles Times in January 2017, Quinones penned an op-ed piece titled, "The Truth is Immigrants have let us live like Princes." In the article, he writes about the positive economic impact of immigrant workers on the Southern Californian region of the United States.