Biography

Richard Lawrence Maddox was born in Kingsville, Texas. He has strong bloodlines from Scottish, Irish, and Cherokee Ancestry, with his paternal grandmother coming from a Cherokee band in Oklahoma. The older of two brothers, Ric was raised in the small Texan town of Pleasanton and played American Football and Division A Baseball.

After graduating, Ric joined the US Army, serving as an Alpha Team Leader in the 1st Battalion 8th Infantry Regiment with a deployment to Iraq. While in service, Ric had the honor of earning five Army Achievement Medals and the prestigious Expert Infantry Badge. Which is not surprising considering his late grandfather CPO George Lawrence Myers is a World War II Navy veteran and his great grandfather, Purple Heart recipient Corporal George Labania Myers was a decorated World War I Army Infantry machine gunner.

Maddox however, was the only member of his family to pursue a career in acting. Shortly after returning from Iraq, he landed a small role in 'The Alamo' where he was able to converse with Billy Bob Thornton and Patrick Wilson for some advice as a young actor. It was Patrick Wilson in particular that highly encouraged Ric to pursue his career further and train. So Ric moved to New York to train at the prestigious Stella Adler acting conservatory for 3 years under the late Earle Gister(Yale).

Upon returning from New York, Avy Kaufman cast Ric in his first Principal role in the movie 'Stop-Loss' opposite Ryan Phillippe and Timothy Olyphant. The films director Kimberly Peirce, encouraged Ric to make the move to Los Angeles.

The greatest move in his career was stumbling upon the meisner technique and Playhouse West where Ric is an alumni. Having studied under Tony Savant, Holly Gagnier, Jim Parrack, and Robert Carnegie he thrived. He was also opposite Jeff Goldblum in "Prisoner of Second Avenue" for the Playhouse West Rep and took home "Best Supporting Actor" at the 2013 Playhouse West film festival for his role of Teddy, in the gritty south Boston drama "Black Irish" for AFI directed by Anika Poitier.

Coming from genuine cowboy stock and being an accomplished horse rider and military trained sharp shooter, has led Ric into a series of westerns such as: 'Renegade'; 'Billy the Kid: New Evidence'; 'Expedition Unknown' (playing Virgil Earp). He is also the co-creator, co-writer, and lead actor in the Western TV show 'Dead Men the Series.’

Ric Maddox also stars as lawman sheriff Pat Garrett in 'The American West', Robert Redford's 8 part series on AMC.

In 2015, Maddox married the British actress, model, and art director Simone Piaskowski where they have a homestead with a few littles and over 100 animals on their self-sustainable farm.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kim Coleman