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Sean Cullen

Born 1960-05-09
📍 Buffalo, New York, USA

Sean Cullen was awarded the 2024 Katherine Cornell Award for his portrayal of Joe Keller in "All My Sons," at Buffalo's Road Less Traveled Theater. He's appearing now in the streaming series "The Green Veil," starring John Leguizamo; and later this year will play Mac Shepard in "The Reunion," a new feature written and directed by Roland Ellis. Sean's previous credits include Maria Schrader's "She Said" (Universal), with Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan; and "The Hating Game," adapted from the best-selling novel and directed by Peter Hutchings. Sean has appeared in Tony Gilroy's Oscar-nominated "Michael Clayton," starring George Clooney; and Lincoln Center's Tony-Award-Winning "Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific," directed by Bart Sher and starring Kelli O'Hara. Sean's other film work includes "Revolutionary Road," directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio; "He Does Not Want Peace," starring David Strathairn and Lindsay Duncan; "Simone," his first project with Al Pacino; "Cop Out," directed by Kevin Smith and starring Bruce Willis and Tracey Morgan; "Rushed," starring Siobhan Fallon Hogan; "Unintended," starring Elizabeth Lail, directed by Anja Murmann; and Universal's "DeLorean," starring Alec Baldwin. Sean's TV credits include the recurring role of FBI Director William Webster in David Fincher's "Mindhunter" (Netflix); and guest-starring appearances in "I Know This Much Is True," adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance (HBO); Barry Levinson's "Paterno" (HBO), his second project with Al Pacino; "Bull" (CBS); "The Blacklist" (NBC); and a recurring role on "Suits" (USA). He also appeared as "Franz" in "NBC's The Sound of Music Live," starring Carrie Underwood. Sean's Broadway credits also include Clifford Odet's "Golden Boy," starring Yvonne Strahovski and Tony Shaloub; "James Joyce's The Dead," starring Christopher Walken; and the National Theatre of Great Britain's production of "Coram Boy." He has also appeared at more than twenty of America's leading regional theater's, including the Kennedy Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, San Francisco's A.C.T., the Ahmanson Theatre, Seattle Rep, the Alley Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Sean was awarded a Portland (Oregon) "Drammy" for his work in Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman"; he shared in the San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Ensemble Award," playing "Gabriel Conroy" in Richard Nelson's "James Joyce's The Dead"; and he was recognized with a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Award for playing Tom in "The Glass Menagerie." in 2020, Sean returned to his hometown of Buffalo, New York, where Road Less Traveled Productions recognized him as that theatre's "American Theater Master." In 2011, Bishop TImon-St. Jude High School honored him with its first "Timon Center for Media & the Arts Distinguished Alumnus Award." Sean is also a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and the Yale School of Drama.

Filmography 50

Worry Time
as Cac Man #2
2026
The Reunion
as Mac Shepherd
2024
Fellow Travelers
as Willard Ballroom Singer
2023
Bunker
as Captain Hall
2023
She Said
as Lance Maerov
2022
The Hating Game
as Anthony Templeman
2021
Rushed
as Mr. Donohue
2021
April Flowers
as Fr. Randy
2020
I Know This Much Is True
as Dr. Yates
2020
Unintended
as Sam
2019
Framing John DeLorean
as Roy
2019
Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10
as Peppy Announcer (voice)
2019
Crypto
as Bernard
2019
Paterno
as Dan McGinn
2018
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
as Judge Newport
2018
Frankie Drake Mysteries
as Mr. Millard
2017
MINDHUNTER
as Director Webster
2017
Bull
as Rob Schaeffer
2016
He Does Not Want Peace
as Thomas Deline
2016
Chronically Metropolitan
as James
2016
Louder Than Bombs
as Lars Hecht
2015
Gabriel
as Jonathan Norton
2015
Dark Matter
as Professor Brophey
2015
The Mysteries of Laura
as Lieutenant Monahan
2014
The Sound of Music Live!
as Franz
2013
House of Cards
as Dean Austen
2013
Elementary
as Samuel Meher
2012
Unforgettable
as Gordon Frost
2011
Suits
as Warden
2011
Body of Proof
as Daniel Robinson
2011
Blue Bloods
as Tom Breyer
2010
South Pacific
as Cmdr. William Harbison
2010
Cop Out
as Captain Romans
2010
The Good Wife
as Greg Cady
2009
Michael Clayton
as Gene Clayton
2007
NCIS
as Frank Raimey
2003
A Wrinkle in Time
as Happy Medium
2003
Rats
as Lenny
2003
S1m0ne
as Bernard, Lawyer
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Liam Montgomery
2001
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Arthur Pruitt
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Brett Trask
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Pete Campbell
1999
George and Martha
1999
Cop Land
as Other Cop
1997
Arli$$
as Pierre Von Trapp
1996
Swift Justice
as Bo Maxey
1996
Law & Order
as Gene Marchetti
1990
Law & Order
as Professor Davis Mills
1990
Law & Order
as Matthew Lortell
1990