American Horror Stories, FBI: Most Wanted, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Signs of Love, The Shed, Catching Up.
I guest-star as Dr. Son, who is perplexed by what has been implanted inside the body of patient Toby Arcaño (Raúl Castillo).
In this scene from the award-winnning 2022 feature film, I grill my daughter's boyfriend (Hopper Jack Penn). Also stars Rosanna Arquette.
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This highlight reel samples some of my lighthearted "Pharmacist Phil" commercials for Kinney Drugs.
This clip features scenes from a short film about a Texas rancher seeking to avenge his wife's murder.
This reel features clips from a web comedy in which my son schools me and his mom about the birds and the bees.
Turn back the sundial and take a peek at my 1990s reel with clips from "The Young and the Restless," a short film, and a healthcare commercial.
Height: 5'10 Weight: 165 Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown-Gray
SPECIAL SKILLS: Southern/British/New York dialects, Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, Swimming, Tennis, Stick Shift, Videography, Photography, Valid Passport and Driver's License
I'm a New York-based actor and a native of Nashville, Tennessee, where I grew up in a family of three generations of ministers.
TV shows include The Night Agent (Netflix), Griselda (Netflix), American Horror Stories (Hulu), Zero Day (Netflix), Elsbeth (CBS), Étoile (Amazon), Godfather of Harlem (MGM+), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC), Law & Order (NBC), General Hospital (ABC), The Young and the Restless (CBS), and Power Book III: Raising Kanan (STARZ).
FILMS include Frank Sabatella’s The Shed with Frank Whaley and Timothy Bottoms, Clarence Fuller’s Signs of Love with Rosanna Arquette and Hopper Penn, Bill Crossland’s Catching Up with Sam Daly and Jonathan Fernandez, and Valerie Smaldone’s The Thursday Night Club with Gloria Gaynor. Danny Gevirtz’ coming-of-age dark comedy I Think I'm Sick won the grand prize of Best Feature Film at Rhode Island International Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival, San Francisco Indiefest, Montreal Independent Film Festival, and Manchester (England) Film Festival (Best International Feature). Garden State Film Festival recently nominated me for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature for this film, alongside nominees John Cleese and Ed Begley, Jr.
THEATER highlights include starring as Orlando opposite Kate Forbes in Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s very first production, As You Like It, and playing Principal Moore in a New York production of Tigers Be Still. I also performed in Golden Boy at Pasadena Playhouse with a then-unknown Mark Ruffalo.
TRAINING began when I was a mere 12 years old in Nashville at Ruth Sweet's (student of Lee Strasberg) The Acting Studio and Nashville Children's Theater. In Nashville as an adolescent I immersed myself in theater, tv and film, which included making my professional debut in a regional touring production of Carousel, and appearing in the Amy Grant music video "Angels". I moved to Chicago for college, where I studied theater at Northwestern University, and enjoyed a semester in London at British-American Drama Academy, studying with greats like Dorothy Tutin, Frank Hauser, Norman Ayrton and Peter Jeffrey. In Los Angeles, I studied Spolin-based improv with Stephen Book and acting with the legendary Jeff Corey. I currently train in New York with Rob McCaskill.
TEACHING college is how I spent over a decade between my acting careers. Taking a hiatus from acting, I earned a second bachelor’s degree in Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After UT I moved to New York, where I worked as a freelance writer before going back to school once again and earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at CUNY Graduate Center. I taught Classics at Brooklyn College and English at USMA, West Point. I also tutored John Jay High School students as an Americorps volunteer and taught summer writing camps. Those years took me to far-flung places intellectually and emotionally, and even geographically (an archaeological dig on the island of Crete). Highlights included taking college field trips with Brooklyn high school students, teaching Greek mythology to thousands of CUNY students, and introducing West Point cadets to the pleasure—and sometimes torture—of studying and performing Shakespeare.
WRITING I also write. I'm very proud of an essay I published in The Fortnightly Review about the exhaustive and amusing search for my paternal ancestry, and I translated from French a collection of Revolutionary War prison letters, Caught in the Crossfire: The New York City Prison Letters of St. John de Crèvecoeur (currently being prepared for publication).
DIRECTING I've also made a few films. In 2020 I released the documentary feature They Look Like Trees, a vérité film about a man who suddenly loses his sight after 60 years of perfect vision, which leads to an unlikely friendship with his neighbor. It had its first run on Amazon. Now you can view it for free on YouTube at this link. We had an exciting world premiere in October 2019 at Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio. My entry into filmmkaing was the 2011 documentary short A Neighborhood Reborn: Life in Lower Manhattan 10 Years After 9/11.
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm joining the cast of the Netflix political thriller The Night Agent in the recurring role of Byron Gedney, starting in Season 2 (premiering 2025). Season 1 of The Night Agent was Netflix's most-viewed TV show of 2023, and it's in the Netflix Top 10 all-time most-viewed TV shows.
On October 3, 2024, I'll be appearing in the season premiere of Law & Order as Brooklyn DA Brian White.
I got to spend a week in September sharing the screen with veteran actors Carrie Preston and Pamela Adlon for CBS' Elsbeth #205. Pictured with director Ron Underwood. Look out for it this fall 2024 in November or December.
Look out in 2025 for the new Amazon series Étoile from Daniel Palladino and Amy Sherman-Palladino, the brilliant team behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The star of the new comedy is Luke Kirby, who played Lenny Bruce in "Mrs. Maisel". I was thrilled to appear in Episode 103 of Étoile with Luke as well as the great English actor Simon Callow. I hope all this brilliance rubbed off on me.
Clowning around in the green room right before acting in a scene with Robert DeNiro on the new Netflix political thriller Zero Day. Coming to Netflix in 2025.
The only photo I got from my day on the set of Godfather of Harlem was this dressing-room selfie. Forest Whitaker and crew return to MGM+ for one last season in 2025.
The Netflix limited series Griselda starring Sofía Vergara finally premiered. It was Netflix's most-viewed title for the first few weeks after its premiere! I play the Federal Prosecutor in Episode 106.
On October 26, Ryan Murphy's third season of American Horror Stories premiered on Hulu as a "Huluween" special. I guest-star as Dr. Son in Episode 304, Organ. Here's a 2-minute clip.
A devastatingly beautiful, tragic and funny feature film I'm in, I Think I'm Sick from filmmaker and You Tube star Danny Gevirtz, won the grand prize (Best Feature Film) at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August -- a great way to world-premiere! That was only the beginning. It's won top prize at several other festivals as well: Manchester [England] Film Festival (International), Garden State Film Festival, Montreal Independent Film Festival, and San Francisco Indiefest. Watch the trailer or just watch the whole film. Garden State Film Festival honored me with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor, alongside nominees Ed Begley, Jr. and John Cleese.
I taped 2 episodes of ABC's General Hospital in March. I played CCRB Head, Trask, leading an inquiry into Detective Harrison Chase's expulsion from the Port Charles Police Department. Here's a brief clip.
In January, my episode #411 ("Crypto Wars") of FBI: Most Wanted premiered on CBS. I play Security Supervisor Dwayne Swayer, guiding Dylan McDermott around the crime scene.
Clarence Fuller's feature film Signs of Love had its theatrical premiere on October 7, 2022 and its worldwide digital release on Nov 22, 2022. It stars Rosanna Arquette, Zoë Bleu Sidel, and Hopper Jack Penn. It also enjoyed theatrical release in Italy after winning a prestigious prize at Rome Film Festival. In this scene, I grill my daughter's new boyfriend.
The faith-based film The Thursday Night Club, featuring 70s pop diva Gloria Gaynor, had its premiere in time for the 2022 Christmas season on the streaming app PureFlix. I play a working-class dad breaking some tough news to my son Kevin in this scene.
Thank you, Baltimore, and Lady in the Lake for the warm welcome! With the help of movie magic, I transformed into Major General Howard and was transported to a far-flung desert from the parking lot of a Baltimore school. Watch out for this Apple TV+ limited series in 2024, starring Natalie Portman.
In January 2022 I guest-starred as SEC Director Everett Willis opposite Christopher Meloni on NBC's Law & Order: Organized Crime.
In September 2021 I donned surgical scrubs for the Season One finale (#110) of the STARZ TV series Power Book III: Raising Kanan. 50 Cent is executive producer of this series from Lionsgate.
In the summer of 2021 I hit the golf course with Corbin Bernsen and Justin Theroux and shot my role as Golfer in episode #104 of HBO's Watergate mini-series White House Plumbers. Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, and Lena Headey lead a cast of 100 stars!
