Career
Fahey started performing when he won a full scholarship to dance at the Joffrey Ballet School at the age of 25. He performed in theaters across the United States and on Broadway. He landed his first major role in television playing Gary Corelli on the soap opera One Life to Live.
In 1985 he received his first major role in film, playing "Tyree" in Silverado. In 1986 he starred in Psycho III as Duane Duke, a money desperate guitarist. That same year, Fahey guest starred on the Season 3 premiere of Miami Vice as gun dealer "Eddie Kaye", famously destroying Detective Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona.
He played "Thorold Stone" in the film Revelation. Fahey later starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in The Lawnmower Man.
In 1990 he starred alongside Marisa Tomei in Parker Kane and Clint Eastwood in the Eastwood directed White Hunter, Black Heart. In 1995 he starred as "Winston McBride" on ABC's The Marshal. He appeared in the Robert Rodriguez film Planet Terror. In 2007 he starred in Messages with Bruce Payne.
Fahey appeared as daredevil "Dutch the Clutch" in an episode of Psych in the beginning of the third season of the show.
Fahey played recurring character, Frank Lapidus, the airplane and helicopter pilot of the research team sent to the island in the fourth, fifth, and as a regular character for the sixth season of Lost. His character has been praised by critics and fans for his one liners and likability factor, but he remains one of the few members of the main cast not to have been given attention in terms of character development.
In 2010 he had a major role in the Robert Rodriguez action film Machete.
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