Film
Since Missing, Shea has starred in many films, including Armyan Bernstein's Windy City (opposite Kate Capshaw for which he won a "Best Actor" award at the Montreal Film Festival in 1984); Stealing Home with Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster and Blair Brown; the French thriller Lune de Miel with Nathalie Baye (also known as Honeymoon, shot in both French and English); Uri Barbash's epic Unsettled Land (Israel, 1987) with Kelly McGillis; Alan Alda's comedy A New Life with Alan Alda and Ann-Margret; Jim Goddard's The Impossible Spy with Eli Wallach, also shot in Israel ("Best Actor" Golden Panda Award in China); the futuristic Freejack (1992) with Rene Russo; and the comedy Honey, I Blew Up the Kid with Rick Moranis.
Shea made his debut into Indian cinema with the 2009 Tamil drama Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, directed by Indo-American film director Arun Vaidyanathan, becoming the first American actor to work in a Tamil film.
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