Bill Camp

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Bill Camp
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Camp in 2018
Born1963or1964(age 59–60) [1]
Massachusetts, U.S.
Education University of Vermont
Juilliard School (BFA)
OccupationActor
Years active1989–present
Spouse
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(m. 2004)​
Children1

Bill Camp (born 1963/1964) [1] is an American actor. He has played supporting roles in many films such as Lincoln (2012), Compliance (2012), Lawless (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Love & Mercy (2015), Loving (2016), Molly's Game (2017), Vice (2018), Wildlife (2018), Joker (2019), News of the World (2021), and Sound of Freedom (2023); the HBO miniseries The Night Of in 2016 and The Outsider in 2020; and the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit in 2020. He had a recurring role in the HBO drama series The Leftovers from 2015 to 2017 and the Hulu space drama series The First in 2018.

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Camp has appeared in many television series and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his role in the miniseries The Night Of (2016). He was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in the 2016 Broadway revival of the play The Crucible .

Early life

Camp was born and raised in Massachusetts, and is the son of Patricia L., a librarian, and Peter B. Camp, who was an assistant headmaster at the Groton School. [2] [3] He attended the University of Vermont, where he played intramural hockey. [4]

Career

Theatre

Initially, Camp was largely active in theatre, [1] [5] but has subsequently taken on character roles in both film and television. In 2002, he left acting and temporarily changed professions (working as a cook and mechanic), [6] only to return two years later in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul, for which he won an Obie Award (Off-Broadway Theater Awards).

Among his works on Broadway are Heartbreak House (2006), Death of a Salesman (2012) and The Crucible (2016). In 2006, Camp joined Philip Bosco and Lily Rabe in the Broadway revival of Heartbreak House at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre. In 2012, Camp joined Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield in Mike Nichols' Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The show ran from March 15, 2012, through June 2, 2012 and earned rave reviews, and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. In 2016, he starred in the Broadway revival of The Crucible alongside Saoirse Ronan, Ben Whishaw, Ciaran Hinds and Sophie Okenedo at the Walter Kerr Theatre. He received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination for The Crucible.

Off-Broadway credits include starring as Gordon in Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons in 2008, before having to withdraw due to other work commitments. [7]

Film

Camp has been in a wide variety of films such as Lincoln (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Love and Mercy (2015), Loving (2016), Molly's Game (2017), Woman Walks Ahead (2017), Vice (2018), Wildlife (2018), Dark Waters (2019), Joker (2019), and The Kitchen (2019).

On August 30, 2021, it was announced that Camp would appear as Matthew Burke in an adaptation of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot for Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. [8] He played a supporting role in Sound of Freedom , starring Jim Caviezel. In 2023 he played funeral home owner Ray Loewen in The Burial. [9]

Television

In 2011, he appeared in the second season of the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire as the hunter Glenmore. Camp has also appeared in Law & Order , The Good Wife , The Leftovers and The Night Of , receiving a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the latter. In 2018, he played FBI agent Bob Chesney, in the critically acclaimed and Emmy-nominated miniseries The Looming Tower . [10] In 2020, Camp became narrator of Forensic Files II on HLN, replacing the popular narrator Peter Thomas. He also played Mr. Shaibel in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit . Camp had a secondary but significant role in the 2021 Showtime series American Rust starring Jeff Daniels. His performance was widely praised by television critics. The series was an adaptation of Philipp Meyer's novel of the same title. In 2024, he played Raymond Horgan in the Apple TV adaptation of Presumed Innocent , with his wife Elizabeth Marvel playing his on-screen wife Lorraine Horgan.

Personal life

He married actress Elizabeth Marvel on September 4, 2004. [2] They have one son. [1]

Acting credits

Awards and nominations

YearAwardsCategoryWorkResultRef.
Tony Awards Best Featured Actor in a Play The Crucible Nominated [11]
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie The Night Of Nominated [12]
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie The Queen's Gambit Nominated [13]

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  2. 1 2 "Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp". The New York Times . September 5, 2004. Archived from the original on November 7, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Wallenberg, Christopher (June 2, 2016). "Bill Camp's second act". The Boston Globe . Archived from the original on October 6, 2019. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ O'Keeffe, Michael (January 6, 2016). "Actor Bill Camp narrates "Road to NHL Winter Classic"". New York Daily News . Archived from the original on March 24, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
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  8. ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 30, 2021). "'Salem's Lot' Movie Adds Mackenzie Leigh, Bill Camp & Spencer Treat Clark". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved October 29, 2022.
  9. ↑ della Cava, Marco (October 13, 2023). "Fact checking 'The Burial': How accurate is Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones' courtroom drama?". USA TODAY. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
  10. ↑ "The Looming Tower". Television Academy . Archived from the original on December 22, 2018. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
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  12. ↑ "Bill Camp - Awards". IMDb . Archived from the original on August 21, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Nominees for the 27th SAG Awards". SAG Awards . Archived from the original on April 5, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
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