Bill Camp is an American actor of the stage and screen. He is known for his extensive character actor roles since 1989 acting in a revival of William Shakespeare's romance Twelfth Night at the Public Theater. He made his film acting debut in the legal thriller Reversal of Fortune (1990).
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Camp continued to take roles in films such as the drama Rounders (1998), the crime drama Public Enemies (2009), the independent drama Compliance (2012), the prohibition drama Lawless (2012), the historical drama Lincoln (2012), the historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), the musical drama Love & Mercy (2015), the drama Black Mass (2015), the historical drama Loving (2016), the action film Jason Bourne (2016), the psychological drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), the crime thriller Molly's Game (2017), the drama Wildlife (2018), the political satire Vice (2018), the superhero film Joker (2019), the western News of the World (2020), the drama Passing (2021).
On television, he started his career with recurring roles in the NBC police procedural series Law & Order (1999–2004), the FX legal drama Damages (2006), the drama series Manhattan (2014–2015), and the HBO supernatural drama series The Leftovers (2015–2017). For his role as a Detective Sergeant in the HBO crime drama miniseries The Night Of (2016), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award. He played a custodian and chess mentor in the Netflix period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020) he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award.
Recently he had recurring roles in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018), the HBO horror-crime series The Outsider (2020), the Netflix legal drama miniseries A Man in Full (2024), the Apple TV+ legal drama series Presumed Innocent (2024), the Netflix political miniseries Zero Day (2025), and the Netflix melodrama miniseries Sirens (2025). In 2025 he portrayed J. P. Morgan in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age .