Richard Dale Jenkins is an American theater, film and television actor. On his account more than a hundred roles in films and series. The actor’s creative biography began in the early 70s, but he gained his fame after the release of the TV series “The Client is Always Dead” in 2001. The actor was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and the United States Screen Actors Guild Award for his supporting role in the film Water Form.
Jenkins devoted many years to the theater scene, working at the Trinity Repertory Company theater in Providence, the capital of Roy Island. In the future, for four years, since 1990, he was its artistic director.
The actor’s debut in the movie took place thanks to the television show "Feasts with Panthers". In it, Richard played one of his small roles, and then continued to collaborate with television.
early years
Richard was born in the USA in the spring of 1947. His father worked as a private dentist, and his mother was a housewife. From childhood, the boy helped his mother with the housework and went to work early to help the family, whose incomes were not very high. In his youth, Richard worked as a truck driver, taking home laundry from his home.
From school, the boy became interested in theater, attended a theater studio and participated in all performances. Teachers advised a talented teenager to develop their acting abilities. By the time he finished school, Richard was determined to become an actor and get a professional education. Thus began the creative biography of the future famous theater and film artist Richard Jenkins.
Creative way
After high school, Richard entered the University of Illinois, where he began to study acting. Immediately after receiving his diploma, he was admitted to the theater, where he worked for almost fifteen years.
After many years of successful work on stage, Jenkins decided to try himself in the cinema. The first film, in which the actor played a small role, was called "Great Performances." It was released in 1975. After that, Jenkins began to constantly appear in new television projects, but real fame came to him much later.
Among his works, it is worth noting the roles in the paintings: "Do not wake a sleeping dog", "Eastwick Witches", "Sea of Love", "Blaze", "Fallen Angel", "Fast and Furious", "Virus", "Wolf", "Patchwork"
Jenkins starred in such famous TV shows as Miami Police: Department of Morals, Queen, Spencer and many others. In the early 2000s, he finally got his starring role in the movie "The Client Is Always Dead." Richard played the head of the Fisher family, who appeared in front of relatives either in the form of a ghost, or when one of his friends talked about him, indulging in memories. The series was highly praised by viewers and film critics, was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award in the category "Best Cast".
It is known that for many years Jenkins starred in the same directors - the Coen brothers and the Farrelli brothers. His roles can be seen in the paintings: “The Man Who Was Not There, ” “After Reading Burn, ” “Unbearable Cruelty, ” “Me, I and Irene Again, ” “Say What's Wrong.”
In 2007, Jenkins was first nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in the film The Visitor. Two years later, Jenkins could be seen in several new films at once: "Happy Together, " Waiting for Eternity ", " Eat, Pray, Love ", " Let Me In ", " Cabin in the Forest ", " Friendship Sex ".
The creative career of the actor is full of roles in various genres. One of his brilliant works was the role in the film, which was released in 2017, - “The Form of Water”, where Richard played not the main, but very bright role, for which he was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and Guild Award film actors.
