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Richard Jenkins
Highest Rated: 92% The Shape of Water (2017)
Lowest Rated: 3% The Mod Squad (1999)
Birthday: May 4, 1947
Birthplace: DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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. Occasionally, his characters spun wildly out of control - a DEA agent who experiences a spectacular LSD trip in "Flirting With Disaster" (1996), or staid funeral director Richard Fisher, whose sudden death reveals a long-hidden secret life on the acclaimed series "Six Feet Under" (HBO, 2001-05) - which was often the highlight of the project. He was also a favorite performer of the Coen Brothers, appearing in "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001), "Intolerable Cruelty" (2003) and "Burn After Reading" (2008). While mainly a character actor, Jenkins finally graduated to leading man status in the independent film "The Visitor" (2008), for which he received excellent notices, while also appearing in "Eat Pray Love" (2010) and "The Rum Diary" (2011). Though not quite a household name, Jenkins remained a busy actor who landed prominent parts in some of Hollywood's biggest movies.
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | IF | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 80% | 68% | Nightmare Alley | Ezra Grindle (Character) | $11.3M | 2021 |
| 92% | 45% | The Humans | Erik Blake (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 64% | 37% | The Last Shift | Stanley (Character) | $790.0K | 2020 |
| 90% | 47% | Kajillionaire | Robert (Character) | $524.0K | 2020 |
| 92% | 73% | The Shape of Water | Giles (Character) | $63.3M | 2017 |
| 75% | 70% | Kong: Skull Island | Senator Willis (Character) | $168.0M | 2017 |
| 56% | 54% | LBJ | Senator Russell (Character) | $2.5M | 2016 |
| 46% | 59% | The Hollars | Don Hollar (Character) | $1.0M | 2016 |
| 91% | 74% | Bone Tomahawk | Chicory (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 23% | 43% | 4 Minute Mile | Coleman (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 31% | 54% | Lullaby | Robert (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 36% | 33% | God's Pocket | Richard Shelburn (Character) | $104.4K | 2014 |
| 67% | 65% | Turbo | Bobby (Voice) | $83.0M | 2013 |
| 51% | 62% | White House Down | Raphelson (Character) | $73.1M | 2013 |
| 52% | 28% | A.C.O.D. | Hugh (Character) | $172.3K | 2013 |
| 55% | 45% | The Company You Keep | Jed Lewis (Character) | $5.1M | 2012 |
| 64% | 67% | Jack Reacher | D.A. Rodin (Character) | $54.6M | 2012 |
| 74% | 44% | Killing Them Softly | Driver (Character) | $14.9M | 2012 |
| 71% | 60% | Liberal Arts | Peter (Character) | $241.8K | 2012 |
| 21% | 29% | Darling Companion | Russell (Character) | $793.4K | 2012 |
| 92% | 74% | The Cabin in the Woods | Sitterson (Character) | $42.0M | 2011 |
| 51% | 36% | The Rum Diary | Lotterman (Character) | $13.1M | 2011 |
| 69% | 65% | Friends With Benefits | Mr. Harper (Character) | $55.8M | 2011 |
| 33% | 40% | Hall Pass | Coakley (Character) | $45.0M | 2011 |
| 67% | 58% | Norman | Doug Long (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 43% | 60% | Happythankyoumoreplease | Paul Gertmanian (Character) | $215.6K | 2010 |
| 5% | 42% | Waiting for Forever | Richard (Character) | $21.0K | 2010 |
| 88% | 76% | Let Me In | The Father (Character) | $12.1M | 2010 |
| 35% | 42% | Eat Pray Love | Richard from Texas (Character) | $80.6M | 2010 |
| 29% | 55% | Dear John | Mr. Tyree (Character) | $80.0M | 2010 |
| 51% | 25% | The Broken | John McVey (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 56% | 44% | The Tale of Despereaux | Principal (Voice) | - | 2008 |
| 78% | 65% | Burn After Reading | Ted (Character) | $60.3M | 2008 |
| 55% | 69% | Step Brothers | Robert (Character) | $100.5M | 2008 |
| 90% | 84% | The Visitor | Walter Vale (Character) | $9.4M | 2007 |
| 52% | 76% | The Kingdom | James Grace (Character) | $47.5M | 2007 |
| 21% | 41% | Rumor Has It ... | Earl Huttinger (Character) | $43.0M | 2005 |
| 29% | 49% | Fun With Dick and Jane | Frank Bascombe (Character) | $110.3M | 2005 |
| 70% | 76% | North Country | Hank Aimes (Character) | $18.3M | 2005 |
| 47% | 57% | Shall We Dance? | Devine (Character) | $57.9M | 2004 |
| 77% | 73% | The Mudge Boy | Edgar Mudge (Character) | $62.5K | 2003 |
| 24% | 56% | Cheaper by the Dozen | Shake (Character) | $138.6M | 2003 |
| 76% | 48% | Intolerable Cruelty | Freddy Bender (Character) | $35.1M | 2003 |
| 39% | 34% | The Core | General Thomas Purcell (Character) | $31.1M | 2003 |
| 9% | 39% | Stealing Harvard | Mr. Cook (Character) | $14.0M | 2002 |
| 78% | 53% | Changing Lanes | Arnell (Character) | $66.8M | 2002 |
| 50% | 71% | Sins of the Father | Bobby Frank Cherry (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 81% | 85% | The Man Who Wasn't There | Walter Abundas (Character) | $7.5M | 2001 |
| 33% | 39% | One Night at McCool's | Father Jimmy (Character) | $6.3M | 2001 |
| 8% | 32% | Say It Isn't So | Walter Wingfield (Character) | $5.5M | 2001 |
| 48% | 57% | Me, Myself & Irene | Agent Boshane (Character) | $90.6M | 2000 |
| 42% | 28% | What Planet Are You From? | Don Fisk (Character) | $6.3M | 2000 |
| 39% | 67% | Snow Falling on Cedars | Sheriff Art Moran (Character) | $14.4M | 1999 |
| 17% | 24% | Random Hearts | Truman Trainor (Character) | $31.1M | 1999 |
| 3% | 17% | The Mod Squad | Det. Bob Mothershed (Character) | $13.3M | 1999 |
| 63% | 73% | The Impostors | Johnny Leguard (Character) | $2.2M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Into Thin Air: Death on Everest | Beck Weathers (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 75% | 78% | Eye of God | Willard Sprague (Character) | $85.7K | 1997 |
| 88% | 69% | Flirting With Disaster | Paul (Character) | $14.8M | 1996 |
| 16% | 36% | Eddie | Carl Zimmer (Character) | $31.4M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | A Couch in New York | Campton (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Boys Next Door | Bob Klemper (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 70% | 41% | The Indian in the Cupboard | Victor (Character) | $31.1M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Getting Out | Chaplain (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 10% | 42% | Trapped in Paradise | Agent Shaddus Peyser (Character) | $5.8M | 1994 |
| 62% | 43% | Wolf | Detective Bridger (Character) | $65.0M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Afterburn | Acton Ryder (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Carolina Skeletons | Redy (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 75% | 36% | Blue Steel | Attorney Mel Dawson (Character) | $7.7M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Challenger | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | Descending Angel | Debaudt (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | When You Remember Me | Vaughan (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Rising Son | Tommy (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak: Fatal Flaw | Joel Litkin (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 75% | 66% | Sea of Love | Gruber (Character) | $56.6M | 1989 |
| 75% | 49% | Blaze | Picayune (Character) | $19.0M | 1989 |
| 53% | 45% | Little Nikita |
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$1.5M | 1988 |
| 67% | 62% | The Witches of Eastwick | Clyde Alden (Character) | $58.7M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Valentine's Day | Bobby Pate (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 91% | 90% | Hannah and Her Sisters | Dr. Wilkes (Character) | $37.3M | 1986 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57% | 82% | Dahmer -- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story | Lionel Dahmer (Character) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Berlin Station | Steven Frost (Character) | 2016-2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Larry King Now | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrity Conversations | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley | Guest | 2017 |
| 85% | 88% | Comrade Detective | Vlad Anghel (Guest Voice) | 2017 |
| 94% | 96% | Olive Kitteridge | Henry Kitteridge (Character) | 2014 |
| 81% | 96% | Six Feet Under |
Nathaniel Fisher Sr. (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2001-2005 |
| 61% | 74% | Ally McBeal | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Challenger | Gregory B. Jarvis (Character) | 1990 |
| 71% | 85% | Miami Vice | Goodman (Guest Star) | 1985 1989 |