Richard Dale Jenkins is an American theater, film and television actor. He has more than a hundred roles in films and TV shows. The actor's creative biography began in the early 70s, but he gained his fame after the release of the series "The Client is Always Dead" in 2001. The actor was nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his supporting role in The Shape of Water.
Jenkins devoted many years to the stage, working at the Trinity Repertory Company in the state capital of Roy Island, Providence. Later, for four years, starting in 1990, he was its artistic director.
The actor's debut in the cinema took place thanks to the television performance "Feasts with Panthers". In it, Richard played one of his small roles, and then continued to collaborate with television.
early years
Richard was born in the United States in the spring of 1947. His father worked as a private dentist and his mother was a housewife. From childhood, the boy helped his mother with the housework and went to work early to help the family, whose incomes were not very high. In his youth, Richard worked part-time as a truck driver, delivering laundry from laundry to homes.
Even from school, the boy became interested in theater, attended a theater studio and participated in all performances. The teachers advised the talented teenager to develop his acting skills. Already by the end of school, Richard was determined to become an actor and get a professional education. This is how the creative biography of the future famous theater and film artist Richard Jenkins began.
Creative way
After leaving school, Richard entered the University of Illinois, where he began to study acting. Immediately after receiving his diploma, he was accepted into the theater, where he worked for almost fifteen years.
After many years of successful work on stage, Jenkins decided to try his hand at cinema. The first film in which the actor played a small role was called "Great Shows". It was released in 1975. After that, Jenkins began to constantly appear in new television projects, but real fame came to him much later.
Among his works, it is worth noting roles in the films: "Don't Wake the Sleeping Dog", "Eastwick Witches", "Sea of Love", "Blaze", "Fallen Angel", "Fast and Furious", "Virus", "Wolf", "Patchwork Quilt ".
Jenkins has also starred in such well-known TV series as Miami Police: The Morality Department, Queen, Spencer and many others. In the early 2000s, he finally landed his starring role in The Client Is Always Dead. Richard played the head of the Fisher family, who appeared in front of relatives either in the form of a ghost, or when one of his friends told about him, indulging in memories. The series was highly appreciated by viewers and film critics, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category "Best Cast".
It is known that Jenkins starred for many years with the same directors - the Coen brothers and the Farrelly brothers. His roles can be seen in the films: "The Man Who Wasn't", "Burn After Reading", "Unbearable Cruelty", "Me, Again Me and Irene", "Say What's Wrong".
In 2007, Jenkins was first nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in The Visitor. Two years later, Jenkins could be seen in several new films at once: Happy Together, Waiting for Eternity, Eat, Pray, Love, Let Me In, Cabin in the Woods, Friendship Sex.
The actor's creative career is full of roles in various genres. One of his brilliant works was the role in the film, released in screens in 2017 - "The Shape of Water", where Richard played not the main, but very bright role, for which he was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and a Guild Award film actors.
Personal life
Richard has a wonderful family. He became the husband of Sharon Raina Friedrick in 1969. His wife gave him two wonderful children: daughter Sarah Pamela and son Andrew Dale.
