Brian Christopher O'Halloran (born December 20, 1969) is an American actor. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He is best known for his roles in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films, notably as Dante Hicks in Smith's debut film Clerks and its 2006 sequel, Clerks II. Aside from this, he has done small appearances in most of Smith's films, either as his Clerks character Dante Hicks or one of his cousins. O'Halloran is the lead actor in Vulgar (2000), an obscure movie about a small town's clown who is traumatized after he is attacked during one of his performances.