Richard Jenkins
Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor. Jenkins began his acting career in theatre at the Trinity Repertory Company and later made his film debut in 1974. He has appeared in supporting roles in many films produced during the 1980s and the 1990s. His breakthrough did not come until the early 2000s, in which he played the deceased patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on the HBO funeral drama series Six Feet Under. Jenkins was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Visitor and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Olive Kitteridge.
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| Full name at birth | Richard Dale Jenkins
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| Claim to fame | Six Feet Under
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| Date of birth | 4 May 1947
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| Place of birth | DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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| Height | 6' 1" (185 cm)
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| Residence | Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.
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| Net worth | $8,000,000 USD
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| High school | DeKalb High School
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| University | Illinois Wesleyan University
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- Frequently works with the Farrelly Brothers.
- Studied theater at Illinois Wesleyan University.
- Served as an artistic director of Rhode Island's Trinity Repertory Theater.
- A member of the Trinity Repertory Company in Rhode Island for fifteen years, he appeared in such 1970s and 1980s Trinity Repertory productions as "Brother to Dragons," "Of Mice and Men," "True West," "American Buffalo" and "Waiting for Godot"; directed such later productions as "Tartuffe," "The Glass Menagerie", "The Miser" and Shekspeare's "Macbeth" and "Twelfth Night"; and was the company's artistic director for four years.
- Parents: Dale Stevens and M. Elizabeth Wheeler Jenkins.
Richard Jenkins is known for his role in the film Kajillionaire (2020) as Robert.
He is also known for his role in the film The Humans (2021) as Erik.
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