Robert Knepper

Robert Knepper
Knepper at the premiere for Earth in April 2009
Born	Robert Lyle Knepper (1959-07-08) July 8, 1959 Fremont, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986–present
Spouse(s)	Tory Herald (2005–2009) Nadine Kary (2013-present)

Robert Lyle Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor best known for his role as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in the FOX drama series Prison Break from 2005 to 2009. He has also appeared in films such as Good Night, and Good Luck, Hitman and Transporter 3. Knepper joined the cast of Heroes for its fourth and final season as Samuel Sullivan.

He currently stars as Sid Rothman in the neo-noir television series Mob City, which premiered on TNT in 2013. Knepper will star as Antonius in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2.

Early life

Knepper was born in Fremont, Ohio, the son of Pat Deck and Donald Knepper.^[1] He was interested in acting from an early age, due to his mother's involvement at a community theater. He was raised in Maumee, Ohio, near Toledo, by his mother and father, who were veterinarians. Knepper spent many years of his youth working in community theater and high school productions. After graduating from Maumee High School in 1977, he attended Northwestern University to study drama. During this time, Knepper also obtained professional roles in plays in Chicago. Nearing the completion of his degree, Knepper quit Northwestern and went to New York City, where he continued to work in theater.^[2]

Career

Although Knepper never intended to work in film and television projects, he began his television and film career in 1986 with The Paper Chase and That's Life!. Knepper went on to have larger roles in such films as Wild Thing, Young Guns II, When the Bough Breaks and Everyone Says I Love You. He also made appearances on well known television series such as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, ER and Law & Order. Through this time Knepper still continued to do theatre work.

In 2005, after a recurring role on the HBO series Carnivàle, Knepper was cast in his most well known role, as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in Prison Break. The series received positive reviews upon release and T-Bag is often considered to be one of the greatest television villains of all time.^[3][4] During his time on Prison Break, Knepper also starred in a number of films; Good Night, and Good Luck, Hitman, Transporter 3 and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

After Prison Break ended in 2009, Knepper was cast as villain Samuel Sullivan in the fourth and final season of Heroes.^[5] After this Knepper went on to have a recurring role in Stargate Universe in 2010 and guest-starred on season six of Criminal Minds as Rhett Walden, a serial killer. The same year he played the titular character in the film adaptation of Burning Daylight.^[6]

In 2011, he reprised his role of T-Bag in one episode of the A&E series Breakout Kings. The next year he played Frank Sinatra in the film My Way, biopic of Claude François, a French pop singer who wrote the song "Comme d'habitude", the original version of Sinatra's song "My Way".

Knepper was cast in the 2013 television series Cult as Roger Reeves, an actor playing Billy Grimm on a show called Cult ^[7] The show was cancelled after only one season. The same year, he also starred in the films R.I.P.D., Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and guest starred on the television series The Blacklist, playing the titular character in the episode "The Courier". At the end of 2013 the TNT series Mob City premiered, in which Knepper plays gangster Sid Rothman.^[8]

Personal life

Knepper has a son, Benjamin Peter Knepper, born circa 2003. The mother is casting director Tory Herald, whom he married in 2005. They divorced in 2009.^[9] Knepper married Nadine Kary in 2013.

Filmography

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Knepper.

• Robert Knepper at the Internet Movie Database
• Robert Knepper's interview at CynbytheSea