Nick Searcy

Nick Searcy
Born	March 7, 1959 (1959-03-07) Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Leslie Riley (1986-present) 2 children

Nick Searcy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actor who currently portrays Chief Deputy United States Marshal Art Mullen on FX's Justified. He also had a major role in the Tom Hanks produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon as Deke Slayton.

Life and career

Searcy was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He is a graduate of Cullowhee High School. He then briefly attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in English.

From 1982 to 1989, Searcy lived in New York where he did Off-Broadway plays. Some of these included Guys and Dolls, Cabaret and Jesus Christ Superstar. When he moved back to North Carolina, he began to act in features that were shooting locally. Small parts in Days of Thunder (1990) and The Prince of Tides led to the role of the malicious Frank in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991).

Searcy has appeared in several television series. He had a recurring role as Brett on Thunder Alley, was a series regular on American Gothic and guest starred on Murder One and Nash Bridges with Don Johnson. He was a regular character on the UPN series Seven Days from 1998 to 2001, and played Barry Martin on the ABC series Rodney, which starred Rodney Carrington, from 2004 to 2006. He has also starred in several TV movies, including In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994), Stolen Innocence (1995) and Le Jeu de l'oie (1980).

In the summer of 1996, Searcy produced, directed and acted in his first independent feature, Paradise Falls (1997), and won a Hollywood Discovery Award at the Hollywood Film Festival for Best Feature Film (Under $1 Million).^{[citation needed]} Since then, he has appeared in films such as Cast Away (2000) starring Tom Hanks, One Hour Photo (2002) starring Robin Williams, Runaway Jury (2003) starring John Cusack, and The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2005) starring Sean Penn.

In 2011, Nick Searcy appeared in the Herman Cain campaign ad "Yellow Flowers" on Youtube.

Searcy resides in Southern California with his wife, actress Leslie Riley, and their two children, Chloe and Omar.

Filmography

The Last Song	2010
Blood Done Sign My Name	2010
The Ugly Truth	2009
Eagle Eye	2008
XII	2008
The Comebacks	2007
Timber Falls	2007
Welcome to Paradise	2007
An American Crime	2007
The Dead Girl	2006
Flicka	2006
Cold Storage	2006
Neighborhood Watch	2005
The Lost Cause	2004
The Assassination of Richard Nixon	2004
The Last Summer	2004
Runaway Jury	2003
Head of State	2003
One Hour Photo	2002
Cast Away	2000
The Angel Doll	2000
Tigerland	2000
About Sarah	1998
Seven Days (TV series)	1998-2001
Paradise Falls	1997
A Step Toward Tomorrow	1996
Desert Winds	1995
Nell	1994
The War	1994
The Fugitive	1993
House of Cards	1993
Losers in Love	1993
The Real McCoy	1993
Sunny's Deliverance	1993
Love Field	1992
Fried Green Tomatoes	1991
The Prince of Tides	1991
Days of Thunder	1990

External links

• Nick Searcy at the Internet Movie Database