Biography
After decades of work in regional theater and made-for-television movies, American character actor Richard Jenkins began to attract the attention of critics and audiences in the late 1990s with quiet but engrossing performances in a wide variety of feature films. Equally capable at both broad comedy and drama, he frequently essayed tightly controlled men of authority, including judges, government agents, detectives and medical professionals. …
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Career Milestones
2012 | Co-starred with Brad Pitt in crime drama "Killing Them Softly," a feature adaptation of George V. Higgins' novel Cogan's Trade | |
2012 | Acted opposite Tom Cruise in action drama "Jack Reacher" | |
2012 | Cast opposite writer and director Josh Radnor in romantic comedy "Liberal Arts" | |
2012 | Co-starred in the horror thriller "The Cabin in the Woods" | |
2011 | Acted opposite Johnny Depp in "The Rum Diary," the big screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel | |
2010 | Co-starred with Julia Roberts in "Eat Pray Love," based on Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir; Roberts portrayed the author who, after a painful divorce, goes on a life-changing journey through Italy, India, and Indonesia | |
2010 | Played the distant father of Channing Tatum in the feature adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel, "Dear John" | |
2008 | Joined an ensemble cast for the Coen's brothers' "Burn After Reading" | |
2008 | Played the lead role in the Thomas McCarthy directed "The Visitor"; earned Independent Spirit, SAG and Oscar nominations for Best Actor | |
2007 | Cast in the Peter Berg directed, "The Kingdom" | |
2005 | Cast in the update of the 1977 comedy, "Fun with Dick and Jane," where a married couple turn to robbery to pay the bills | |
2005 | Played Charlize Theron's father in "North Country" a fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States | |
2004 | Cast in David O Russell's "I Heart Huckabees" starring Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law and Naomi Watts | |
2004 | Played the father of a fourteen year old boy (Emile Hirsch) trying to deal with the death of his mother in "The Mudge Boy" | |
2003 | Appeared in the film "Cheaper by the Dozen" | |
2003 | Portrayed Freddy Bender in the Coen's brothers comedy "Intolerable Cruelty" | |
2002 | Co-starred in the FX original movie "Sins of the Father" | |
2001 | Had recurring role as the family patriarch Nathaniel Fisher in the acclaimed HBO series "Six Feet Under" | |
2001 | Played Sally Field's husband in "Say It Isn't So" | |
1999 | Featured in "The Mod Squad" and "Snow Falling on Cedars" | |
1997 | Played the parole officer in Tim Blake Nelson's atmospheric "Eye of God" | |
1996 | Was featured in the CBS special "The Boys Next Door" | |
1993 | Co-starred in the CBS miniseries "Queen" | |
1990 | Portrayed an attorney in "Blue Steel" | |
1988 | Was featured in "Little Nikita" | |
1987 | Reprised role of Bobby Pate in "Courtship"; another film based on a Horton Foote play | |
1987 | Had supporting role in "The Witches of Eastwick" | |
1986 | Co-starred as Bobby Pate in "On Valentine's Day"; adapted from a play by Horton Foote | |
1985 | Feature film debut, "Silverado" | |
1984 | Acted in the award-winning PBS miniseries "Concealed Enemies" | |
1975 | Appeared in the Trinity production "Brothers to Dragons"; filmed for broadcast on PBS | |
| In the 1970s, was artistic director of Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence, RI | ||
Awards
2009 | Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead in The Visitor |
2009 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in The Visitor |
2008 | Academy Award for Actor In a Leading Role in The Visitor |
2008 | Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor in The Visitor |
2008 | National Board of Review Award for Spotlight Award in The Visitor |
2002 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in Six Feet Under |
1997 | Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male in Flirting With Disaster |