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Gregg Henry

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Born
May 6 · Lakewood, Colorado, USA
Birth name
Gregg Lee Henry
Height
5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)

Biography

Gregg Henry has worked with many well-known filmmakers. For James Gunn: Slither (2006), Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017). For Brian De Palma: Scarface (1983), Body Double (1984). Raising Cain (1992), Femme Fatale (2002), The Black Dahlia (2006), and Casualties of War (1989). For Paul Greengrass: United 93 (2006), and Jason Bourne (2016). Henry also stars in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and is maybe best known for the role of Val Resnick in Payback (1999).

Henry has numerous TV credits, notably as Hollis Doyle in Scandal (2012); Hit & Run (2021) for Netflix; The Riches (2007); The Killing (2011); The Following (2013); Chicago Med (2015); Hung (2009); Hell on Wheels (2011); Gilmore Girls (2000); Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021). In a chilling portrayal of the infamous Dennis Rader, Henry starred in the critically acclaimed The Hunt for the BTK Killer (2005).

On stage, Henry most recently played the titular character in the brilliant and controversial production of Julius Caesar by the Public Theater and Oskar Eustis in Central Park. He's also performed at Seattle Rep, ACT Seattle, South Coast Rep, Old Globe Theater San Diego, and the Denver Center Theater. Henry has won thirteen Drama-Logue Awards, an L.A. Weekly Award, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his stage work as producer and actor.

A composer and lyricist, Henry wrote both music and lyrics for Little Egypt: The Musical, which had a successful LA run and was accepted into the NYMF festival in NYC. He composed and wrote lyrics for two additional musicals, work-shopped at the LAByrinth Theater Summer intensives.

Henry plays the piano and has recorded several albums, as a professional singer and songwriter. Dwight Yoakam's cover of Henry's song, "The Back of Your Hand" for his album Population Me, reached #1 on CMT. Henry lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife Lisa James, a noted director for the American Theater.
- IMDb mini biography by: Melisa Spamer

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Trademarks

Deep gravelly voice
Frequently Cast by Brian De Palma

Trivia

Has his own rock band and has played with Bruce Greenwood, producing three albums together.
Has appeared in five films by director Brian De Palma: Scarface (1983), Body Double (1984), Raising Cain (1992), Femme Fatale (2002) and The Black Dahlia (2006).
He was awarded the 1983 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "A Christmas Memory," in a Mark Taper Forum and the Sundays at the Itchey's Foot production in Los Angeles, California.
Gregg Henry who stars as CEO Franklin Gantt, also starred in The Belko Experiment (2016), where he played The Voice. It's a similar film where office workers have to fight to the death for survival.

Quotes

Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles and hurling salt everywhere.
Well, like many actors, I'm very grateful, I feel very fortunate, very lucky to be able to make a living with what I do and what I love. I'm surprised and grateful all the time. When I get my next job, because after you finish each job, you go, "Well, that's it. I'm never gonna work again." It's just a constant process for an actor, you always have to get up and start over after the one job is done.
I consider myself an actor that tries to have as many tools as possible in the bag. And I think that includes the method, then of course it includes some improv techniques, and includes all kinds of different things, because you never know when you're going to have to work on something and in what way. Sometimes you have to work on things very, very quickly, you don't have the time to, for instance, go from the inside-out. You know so much about a person that you can work that way, so you have to work from the outside in.
(2012, on Slither (2006)) I loved that movie. I think that movie is hilarious. It makes me laugh. And it's got great scares in it. I think it's just tons of fun. I think (director) James Gunn is a big talent who knows how to mash up genres and really come up with something great.
(2012, on Payback (1999)) I just loved this character from the moment I read it. Sometimes you read a character and you just go, "I know this guy." An image hits your head of what he is and who he is. And that was very much the case with this. Marion Dougherty was the casting director on that, and I read for her and Brian Helgeland, the director. They loved it, and they loved me. Then it was about two months until Mel [Gibson] saw the audition and gave the okay. That was a long and torturous time... He was on this world tour and everything, so we had to wait for quite a while before I got the word that I got the part. Working with Mel was great. He was very generous and open. I didn't meet him until we were in Chicago at the first table read. And table reads are often interesting, because you meet people, but you don't know, really. Oftentimes, it's just like the words are coming out. Some people are aiming more for what the performance is going to be, and other people are just clocking where they are in the picture.