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Years active | 1995–present |
Jay Huguley (born July 26, 1966) is an American film, TV and theatre actor, best known for playing David on AMC's The Walking Dead , [1] and Jimmy Ledoux on HBO's True Detective .
Huguley was born in Englewood, New Jersey and raised in nearby Tenafly, New Jersey, [2] [3] the youngest of three boys, to father Arthur W. Huguley, III, a commodities trader and president of Westway Trading Corporation, and mother Katherine McCrae Yarborough Huguley, a housewife.
As a child, Huguley spent his teenage years attending the Peddie School, a boarding school in Hightstown, New Jersey, from where he later graduated. He spent a year abroad at the University of London studying political science and graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a double major in political science and communications.
Huguley studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, under the aegis of Anna Strasberg, and at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles, under the world-renowned teacher Milton Katselas.
Prior to his professional acting career, Huguley was a fashion model. Following college, he was discovered working as a lifeguard, when someone working in fashion in New York suggested he should try modeling. [4] Two Polaroids were taken of him, and he was brought into New York City. Soon after. he received a contract with Wilhelmina Models, which sent him to London, Paris, Milan and Sydney, Australia.
Huguley lived in Paris throughout the early-1990s, where he worked as a model for brands like Armani, Valentino, Zegna and Romeo Gigli. He first realized his passion for acting while taking a directing class in college, where one of his assignments was to audition for the school play to get an idea of what actors experience in their process of attempting to score acting roles. He got the part of the Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie . Huguley then moved back to the United States, where he began to work regularly in theatre and studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute. He moved to Los Angeles to do a play directed by Lee’s widow, Anna Strasberg.
In his earliest appearances on television, Huguley starred in smaller roles on Mad TV , The Norm Show , Walker, Texas Ranger , Providence , and Strong Medicine before getting more recurring roles in TV shows such as Summerland , and Alias . He also starred in 2010 as Richard Hightower on the long-running soap opera, The Young and the Restless .
Huguley is best known for playing David on AMC's The Walking Dead , [5] and Jimmy Ledoux on HBO's True Detective . Huguley also played Will Branson on Seasons 3 and 4 of the HBO series Treme , and Whit Peyton in the ABC TV series, Brothers & Sisters .
Huguley has also played recurring characters in ABC Family's "Ravenswood" (spin-off to Pretty Little Liars ), and in the CW's Star-Crossed. He's also guest-starred in episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , Red Band Society , Nashville , Breaking In , Drop Dead Diva , and Army Wives .
In 2013, he appeared in Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave , starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, and Michael Fassbender. [6]
In 2015, he appeared in Helen Hunt's Ride , and starred as Jonah Bock in the hit indie darling, Sunny in the Dark, a feature film written by Courtney Ware, for which he took home the award for "Best Actor" from the Northeast Film Festival. [7]
In 2016, Huguley appeared in the highly anticipated horror film, Abattoir , by the man credited for furthering the Saw franchise, Darren Lynn Bousman. Abattoir has already nabbed a sequel deal, prior to its official theatrical release.
Huguley's most recent roles include Heart, Baby and William Henry Moody in Lizzie , both released in 2018. He has twice portrayed historical figures. In 2013, he played Sheriff H.P. Voorhies, the man who negotiated freedom of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave and most recently, as William Henry Moody, the prosecuting attorney in the infamous Lizzie Borden trial in the film Lizzie alongside Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart.
In 2008, Huguley starred in David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony Award-winning play Rabbit Hole at the Skylight Theatre. About his performance, the Los Angeles Times said, "Jay Huguley dwells inside the play’s contradictions and connects us to its anguished, buoyant heart." In 2009, Huguley played the lead role of Henry in Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Thing at Los Angeles’ Skylight Theatre.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | Vampire Vixens from Venus | Drained Driver | |
1995 | Call Girl | Arthur Benton | |
1998 | Brina's Problem | Michael | |
1999 | Temptations | Tanner | |
2003 | Melvin Goes to Dinner | Johnny Extra | |
2003 | Saved by the Rules | Mike | |
2005 | Silent Men | Richard 'Sadhu' | |
2005 | Stress, Orgasms, and Salvation | Reverend James | |
2012 | Hijacked | Tim | |
2013 | Hot Guys with Guns | Bruce Lieberman | |
2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Sheriff H.P. Voorhies | |
2014 | Patient Z | Dr. Vincent Gersh | |
2014 | When the Game Stands Tall | Coach Towne | Uncredited |
2014 | Ride | Co-worker | |
2015 | Sunny in the Dark | Jonah | |
2016 | Carbon Canyon | Mr. Loris | |
2016 | Abattoir | Felix | |
2017 | The Hammer | Officer Paul | |
2018 | Lizzie | William Henry Moody | |
2018 | Tales from the Hood 2 | Fitch Measpine | |
2018 | Almost Home | Lexus John | |
2019 | The Hacks | Kevin | |
2019 | From Zero to I Love You | Eric Dupont | |
2019 | Killerman | James Manning | |
2020 | The Glorias | TV Interviewer | |
2020 | The Eagle and the Albatross | Dean | |
2020 | The Fox Hunter | Edwin McCushing | |
2020 | Surviving in L.A. | Mark | |
2021 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Jimmy Swaggart | |
2022 | The Walk | Riley |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1998 | Mad TV | Cop | Episode: "Vivica A. Fox" |
2000 | The Norm Show | Man | Episode: "I've Got a Crush on You" |
2000 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Detective Rogers | Episode: "Deadly Situation" |
2001 | Dexter's Laboratory | Hokochoo | 2 episodes |
2002 | That '80s Show | Bartender | 3 episodes |
2002 | Providence | Georgeous Doctor | Episode: "It's Raining Men" |
2002 | Meet the Marks | Jay 'the groom' | Episode #1.1 |
2003 | Boomtown | Chris Hamlin | Episode: "The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang" |
2004 | Strong Medicine | Donald Murray | Episode: "Graft" |
2005 | Summerland | Doug Fox | 3 episodes |
2005, 2006 | Alias | Dr. Peter Marks | 2 episodes |
2006 | Medium | Larry Greene / Best Man | Episode: "Knowing Her" |
2006 | Cold Case | Joe Livingston (1979) | Episode: "The Key" |
2006 | Thick and Thin | Gerard | Episode: "Jen the Model" |
2006–2007 | Brothers & Sisters | Whit Peyton | 6 episodes |
2007 | What About Brian | Martin First | Episode: "What About the Tangled Web..." |
2008 | Quarterlife | Arthur | Episode: "Goodbyes" |
2010 | The Young and the Restless | Richard Hightower | 4 episodes |
2010 | Dad's Home | Brian Westman | Television film |
2011 | Drop Dead Diva | Kevin Williams | Episode: "Prom" |
2012 | Breaking In | Sean Hurley | Episode: "The Legend of Hurley's Gold" |
2012 | Army Wives | Dr. Paul Campell | Episode: "Handicap" |
2012–2013 | Treme | Will Branson | 6 episodes |
2013 | Nashville | Dewey | Episode: "I'm Sorry for You, My Friend" |
2013 | The Neighbors | Paul | Episode: "Mother Clubbers" |
2013 | Anna Nicole | John Lawfton | Television film |
2013–2014 | Ravenswood | Tom Beddington | 3 episodes |
2014 | True Detective | Jimmy Ledoux | Episode: "After You've Gone" |
2014 | Star-Crossed | Ray Whitehill | 4 episodes |
2014 | Red Band Society | Sean Fahey | Episode: "So Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want" |
2015 | CSI: Cyber | Gordon | Episode: "L0M1S" |
2015 | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Young Rebecca's Father | Episode: "I Hope Josh Comes to My Party!" |
2015 | The Walking Dead | Dave | 3 episodes |
2016 | The Inspectors | Frank Macom | Episode: "No Good Deed" |
2016 | Halt and Catch Fire | Cal Erickson | Episode: "Rules of Honorable Play" |
2016 | Rosewood | David B. Jones | Episode: "Boatopsy & Booty" |
2016 | The Real O'Neals | Gary | Episode: "The Real Tradition" |
2019 | The Purge | Defense Attorney | Episode: "Blindspots" |
2020 | NCIS: New Orleans | Ben Kinnaman | Episode: "Relentless" |
TBA | Pegasus | Actor | Episode: "Do you believe in magic?" |
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