Kirk Bovill

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Kirk Bovill
Born (1961-01-17) January 17, 1961
Wayne, NE, U.S.
Occupation Actor, Writer, Producer
Years active 2007–present
Spouse(s) Joni Bovill (1995 to present)
Website
http://www.kirkbovill.com

Kirk Bovill (born January 17, 1961) is an American actor. His film credits include Contraband, Texas Killing Fields, White Lightnin’, The Butterfly Circus and Circle of 8.

Early life

Bovill was born in Wayne, Nebraska, the son of Judy Bovill, a teacher, artist and writer and Ron Bovill, a college professor, coach, writer and former actor who filmed national Wells Fargo commercials in the 70s as Mark Twain. After attending Aurora High School, he headed off to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where he graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. He coached women’s track as an undergraduate assistant at the school and was on the staff that won three national indoor team titles. He completed a Master’s Degree in Journalism with a minor in Advertising at Louisiana State University in 1987. He coached women’s track as a graduate assistant and was on the staff that won LSU’s first two NCAA team titles. Also during his stay, he earned CoSIDA National Runner-Up Honors for writing the 1986 Track and Field Media Guide.

Career

Bovill started out at Hollywood’s The Comedy Store in the improv group that opened up the highly successful urban comedy show, Trippin’ on Tuesdays in 2006. The cast included Windell Middlebrooks.

He began his career in network television in 2007 as an armed enforcer in Hallmark’s Murder 101 opposite legendary Dick Van Dyke. He followed that with roles in a number of shows, including Criminal Minds, CSI, Ghost Whisperer, Leverage, Sons of Anarchy, Southland and Days of Our Lives. His film breakthrough was British director Dominic Murphy’s dark drama, White Lightnin’, as the redneck killer Long which premiered at the Sundance and the Berlin Film Festivals in 2009. The film is loosely based on the true story of Jesco White. Filming took place in Croatia.

That was followed up with several film roles including; Contraband with Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster and Giovani Ribisi, Texas Killing Fields with Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Butterfly Circus, God Bless America (film), Paramount's Circle of 8 and Footprints (film).

Currently, he's set to start filming in the James Brown biopic Get On Up with Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Chadwick Boseman and being helmed by Tate Taylor. The film is set for a 2014 release date.

Recent television credits include a guest star turn on American Horror Story: Asylum, Grey's Anatomy and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

He plays the whacky coop player, Dick in the highly anticipated video game Dead Rising 3 which was introduced at E3 2013. The game will be exclusively available on Microsoft XBox One and was developed by Capcom Vancouver.

He has released two critically acclaimed CDs with his wife, Joni Bovill under their indie label, Elmo Records. They’ve appeared on TV One’s “The Gospel of Music with Jeff Majors” and have licensed their music to films. Bovill wrote all of the songs.

Prior to entering into the entertainment industry, Bovill was an international marketing executive in high technology for a number of years. He’s been published in technical journals.

Before that, he spent six years in the collegiate coaching ranks at the University of Nebraska as an undergraduate assistant and Louisiana State University as a graduate assistant in track and field.

Personal life

Married actress Joni Bovill in Negril, Jamaica. Joni’s brother, Henry Green, is a member of the multi-Grammy nominated Gospel group, The Williams Brothers.

Filmography

  1. Get On Up, 2014
  2. Bosch, TV 2014
  3. Contraband, 2012
  4. Life's an Itch, 2012
  5. Texas Killing Fields, 2011
  6. Bending the Rules, 2012
  7. God Bless America, 2011
  8. WWJD?, 2010
  9. White Lightnin', 2009
  10. Circle of 8, 2009
  11. Footprints, 2011
  12. Dead Rising 3, Video Game, 2013
  13. Grey's Anatomy, TV 2013
  14. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, TV 2013
  15. American Horror Story: Asylum, TV 2012
  16. Southland, TV 2012
  17. Sons of Anarchy, TV 2010
  18. Days of Our Lives, TV (2 ep) 2010
  19. CSI, TV 2009
  20. Criminal Minds, TV 2009
  21. Leverage, TV 2009
  22. Ghost Whisperer, TV 2009
  23. Eleventh Hour, TV, 2008
  24. Murder 101, TV 2006
  25. The Playbook, TV 2006

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