Nick Searcy

Nick Searcy
Searcy at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, 2013
Born	(1959-03-07) March 7, 1959 Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Leslie Riley (1986-present)
Children	2

Nick Searcy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actor best known for portraying 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. He will be directing an upcoming film about convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell.

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 2014 he appeared in the CBS drama Intelligence.

In the summer of 1996, Searcy produced, directed and acted in his independent feature, Paradise Falls (1997), written by Sean Bridgers, and they won a Hollywood Discovery Award at the Hollywood Film Festival for Best Feature Film (Under $1 Million) and Best Dramatic Feature at the Charleston, S.C., 1997 WorldFest. Since then, he has appeared in films such as Cast Away (2000), One Hour Photo (2002), Runaway Jury (2003), and The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2005).

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

He is slated to direct the upcoming film Gosnell, a true crime drama based on the serial infant killer Kermit Gosnell.

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

Filmography

Title	Year	Role
Greater	2016	The Farmer
11.22.63	2016	Deke Simmons
Intelligence	2014	General Greg Carter
Petals on the Wind	2014	Dr. Reeves
Archer	2013
Gone	2012	Mr. Miller
Moneyball	2011	Matt Keough
Justified	2010–2015	Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen
The Last Song	2010	Tom Blakelee
Blood Done Sign My Name	2010
The Ugly Truth	2009	Stuart
Cold Storage	2009	Clive
Eagle Eye	2008	David Johnson (uncredited)
XII	2008	Deputy Kent
The Comebacks	2007	Mr. Truman
Timber Falls	2007	Clyde
Welcome to Paradise	2007	Reverend Ellington
An American Crime	2007
The Dead Girl	2006
Flicka	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	Brian Lewis
One Hour Photo	2002	Repairman
Double Teamed	2002	Larry Burge
Cast Away	2000	Stan
The Angel Doll	2000
Tigerland	2000
From the Earth to the Moon	1998	Deke Slayton
About Sarah	1998
Seven Days	1998–2001	Nathan Ramsey
Paradise Falls	1997
A Step Toward Tomorrow	1996
American Gothic	1995–1996
Desert Winds	1995
Nell	1994
The War	1994
The Fugitive	1993	Sheriff Rollins
House of Cards	1993
Losers in Love	1993
The Real McCoy	1993
Sunny's Deliverance	1993
Love Field	1992
Fried Green Tomatoes	1991	Frank Bennett
The Prince of Tides	1991
Days of Thunder	1990

External links

• Nick Searcy at IMDb