Michel Gill | |
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Born | April 16, 1960 |
Other names | Michael Gill |
Education | Tufts University Juilliard School (BFA) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1984–present |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Michel Gill (born April 16, 1960), [1] also known as Michael Gill, is an American actor best known for playing President Garrett Walker in the Netflix series House of Cards and Gideon Goddard on Mr. Robot .
Gill is a first generation American born to Jewish parents who escaped the Holocaust. [2] Gill's first language was French. He studied at Aiglon College, a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland. After Aiglon, he attended Tufts University before transferring and graduating from the Juilliard School in 1985 (Group 14). [3] [4]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2003 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Spencer Anderson | Episode: "Gemini" |
2013 | The Good Wife | Frederick Plunkett | Episode: "Je Ne Sais What?" |
2013–2014, 2016–2017 | House of Cards | President Garrett Walker | 25 episodes Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2014) |
2014 | Person of Interest | Rene Lapointe | Episode: "Allegiance" |
2015 | Forever | Dmitry Malakoff | Episode: Best Foot Forward |
2015–2016 | Mr. Robot | Gideon Goddard | 11 episodes |
2016–2017 | The Get Down | Herbert Gunns | 8 episodes |
2017 | Ray Donovan | Doug Landry | 6 episodes |
2018 | Chicago Med | Robert Haywood | 9 episodes |
2019 | God Friended Me | Wilson Hedges | 3 episodes |
2021 | Nova Vita | Anthony Nixon | 10 episodes |
2022 | The Gilded Age | Patrick Morris | |
2022 | The Dropout | Chris Holmes | 6 episodes |
Gill is married to fellow House of Cards actor Jayne Atkinson (Secretary of State Catherine Durant), whom he met when they were both in a production of The Heiress at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. [5]
They began dating in 1992 and were married in 1998. Gill and Atkinson reside with their son in the Berkshires. [6]
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Actor Michel Gill is 62.