
Richard Jenkins
Biography
Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor. Jenkins began his acting career in theater at the Trinity Repertory Company and later made his film debut in 1974. He has worked steadily in film and television since the 1980s, mostly in supporting roles. His first major role did not come until the early 2000s, when he portrayed the deceased patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on the HBO funeral drama series Six Feet Under (2001–2005). He is also known for his roles in the films Burn After Reading (2008), Step Brothers (2008), Let Me In (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012).
Jenkins was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the drama film The Visitor (2007). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for the limited drama series Olive Kitteridge (2014). For his performance in the fantasy drama film The Shape of Water (2017), Jenkins received Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
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Acting History
2024
IF as Art Teacher (voice)
2022DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story as Lionel Dahmer
2021Nightmare Alley as Ezra Grindle
2021The Humans as Erik
2020The Last Shift as Stanley
2020Kajillionaire as Robert
2017The Shape of Water as Giles
2017LBJ as Sen. Richard Russell
2017Kong: Skull Island as Senator Al Willis
2016Berlin Station as Steven Frost
2016The Hollars as Don Hollar
2015Spotlight as Richard Sipe (voice) (uncredited)
2015Bone Tomahawk as Chicory
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Olive Kitteridge as Henry Kitteridge
2014Lullaby as Robert
20144 Minute Mile as Coleman
2014God's Pocket as Richard Shelburn
2013A.C.O.D. as Hugh
2013Turbo as Bobby (voice)
2013White House Down as Raphelson
2013Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around as Self
2012Jack Reacher as D.A. Alex Rodin
2012The Company You Keep as Jed Lewis
2012Liberal Arts as Professor Peter Hoberg
2012Killing Them Softly as Driver
2012Darling Companion as Russell
2012The Cabin in the Woods as Richard Sitterson
2011The Rum Diary as Lotterman
2011Friends with Benefits as Mr. Harper
2011Happythankyoumoreplease as Paul Gertmanian
2011Hall Pass as Coakley
2010Let Me In as The Father
2010Eat Pray Love as Richard
2010Eat Pray Love as Richard from Texas
2010Norman as Doug Long
2010Waiting for Forever as Richard Twist
2010Dear John as Mr. Tyree
2008Finding the Burn as Self / Ted Treffon (archive footage)
2008The Tale of Despereaux as Principal (voice)
2008The Broken as John McVey
2008Burn After Reading as Ted
2008Step Brothers as Dr. Robert Doback
2008The Visitor as Prof. Walter Vale
2007The Kingdom as Robert Grace
2005Rumor Has It... as Earl Huttinger
2005Fun with Dick and Jane as Frank Bascombe
2005Earth to America as Self
2005North Country as Hank Aimes
2004Shall We Dance? as Devine
2004I ♥ Huckabees as Mr. Hooten (uncredited)
2003Cheaper by the Dozen as Shake
2003Intolerable Cruelty as Freddy Bender
2003The Core as Gen. Thomas Purcell
2003The Mudge Boy as Edgar Mudge
2002Stealing Harvard as Honorable Judge Emmett Cook
2002Changing Lanes as Walter Arnell
2002Sins of the Father as Bobby Frank Cherry
2001The Man Who Wasn't There as Walter Abundas
2001Six Feet Under as Nathaniel Fisher
2001One Night at McCool's as Father Jimmy
2001Say It Isn't So as Walter Wingfield
2000Me, Myself & Irene as Agent Boshane
2000What Planet Are You From? as Don Fisk
1999Snow Falling on Cedars as Sheriff Art Moran
1999Random Hearts as Truman Trainor
1999Outside Providence as Barney
1999The Confession as Cass O'Donnell
1999The Mod Squad as Det. Bob Mothershed
1998The Impostors as Johnny Leguard (Frenchman)
1998There's Something About Mary as Psychiatrist (uncredited)
1997Into Thin Air: Death on Everest as Beck Weathers
1997Eye of God as Willard Sprague
1997Ally McBeal as Mr. Bo
1997Absolute Power as Michael McCarty
1996Eddie as Carl Zimmer
1996Flirting with Disaster as Paul Harmon
1996A Couch in New York as Campton
1996The Boys Next Door as Bob Klemper
1995How to Make an American Quilt as Howell
1995The Indian in the Cupboard as Victor
1994Trapped in Paradise as Agent Shaddus Peyser
1994It Could Happen to You as C. Vernon Hale
1994Wolf as Detective Carl Bridger
1994Getting Out as Chaplain
1993And the Band Played On as Dr. Marc Conant
1993Undercover Blues as Frank
1993Alex Haley's Queen as Mr. Benson
1992Afterburn as Acton Ryder
1991Carolina Skeletons as Redy
1991Doublecrossed
1991The Perfect Tribute as Blair
1990Descending Angel as Debaudt
1990When You Remember Me as Vaughan
1990Rising Son as Tommy
1990Blue Steel as Attorney Mel Dawson
1990Challenger as Gregory B. Jarvis
1989Blaze as Picayune
1989Kojak : Error Fatal as Joel Litkin
1989Sea of Love as Gruber
1989How I Got Into College as Bill Browne
1989Out on the Edge as Paul Evetts
1989Rachel River as Cordell
1988In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders as Detective Hamill
1988Stealing Home as Hank Chandler
1988Little Nikita as Richard Grant
1987The Witches of Eastwick as Clyde Alden
1987Courtship as Bobby Pate
1986The Manhattan Project as Radiation Controls Officer
1986On Valentine's Day as Bobby Pate
1986The Tender Age as Roger Davis
1986Hannah and Her Sisters as Dr. Wilkes
1985Silverado as Kelly
1984Miami Vice as DEA Agent Ed Waters
1984Miami Vice as Goodman
1982Parole as 1st Cop
1974Feasting with Panthers as Warder
1971Great Performances as Sheriff
1971Great Performances as Warder
—DTF St. Louis
—Criminal as Ivan
—We Are Not Who We Are: Making The Cabin in the Woods as Self / Richard Sitterson







