Ted Levine

Birthplace: Bellaire, Ohio, USA

He brought shudders to audiences worldwide as Jamie Gumb, the cross-dressing serial killer in "Silence of the Lambs" (1991) but the stage-trained Ted Levine has proven himself as a character player with range, portraying outlaws, jilted husbands, cops, drunks, and the like. Levine left Marlboro College in Vermont to pursue the stage, joining the Burlington (VT) Shakespeare Festival. He later toured as Sgt. Toomey in the national company of "Biloxi Blues." Dedication to theatre led Levine to turn to directing as well as actin…more

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Actor

Murder in High Places
Carson Russell
Wonderland
Dr Robert Banger
The Fulfillment of Mary Gray
Jonathan Gray
Ellen Foster
Bill
Monk
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer

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Career Milestones

2007
Portrayed local Sheriff James Timberlake in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
2006
Appeared in the remake of Wes Craven's 1977 horror classic, "The Hills Have Eyes"
2005
Cast in "Memoirs of a Geisha" an adaptation of Arthur Golden's novel, directed by Rob Marshall
2004
Starred in Jonathan Glazer's "Birth," with Nicole Kidman
2003
Appeared as a detective opposite Val Kilmer in "Wonderland"