I’m pretty sure this was on PBS tv as part of an independant film series.
It’s perhaps an hour long, from the mid-90s, before he was cast into Law & Order Special Victims. He is a great guy, well-liked, engaged to be married.
He feels compelled to share his deep secret with his fiance’– which is that he is an alien. She thinks it’s an elaborate prank, then gets angry when he won’t admit to it. so finally he does say it’s a joke. I think she shows him the door., breaks the engagement. He then goes to her parents to try to get her back, tells the father the same alien story.
The thing about this is that his elaborate story sounds plausible with the details he provides, and in the end the viewer wonders– what is the truth.
I’m positive he is the actor, I checked lists of his work without finding this..
(and correction – L&O Criminal Intent, not SVU)
Maybe “Happy Accidents”(2000)
He doesn’t tells his fiance(Marisa Tomei) that he is from the future.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208196/?ref_=nv_sr_2
SOLVED – thank you ! yes this is it… .odd that I rememberd it as a drama rather than comedy.
Progeny (1999). The actor is Arnold Vosloo.
Thanks anyway , I appreciate it but it is Happy Accidents
Thanks sandnc!