Biography
Richard Jenkins is an American actor best known for his role in HBO’s funeral drama series Six Feet Under. He has been working in film and television since the 1980s, primarily in supporting roles. His extensive career includes The Witches of Eastwick, Little Nikita, Flirting with Disaster, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Mudge Boy, Burn After Reading, Step Brothers, Let Me In, Jack Reacher, and The Last Shift.
Age
He is 77 years old as of 4 May 2024. He was born in 1947 in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. His real name is Richard Dale Jenkins.
Family – Education
His mother, Mary Elizabeth (née Wheeler), was a homemaker, while his father, Dale Stevens Jenkins, was a dentist. He attended DeKalb High School. Jenkins worked as a linen truck driver prior to becoming an actor. Before moving to Rhode Island, he attended Illinois Wesleyan University and received a degree in acting.
Wife – Children
Jenkins is married to choreographer Sharon R. Friedrick, and they have two children.
Net Worth
He has na estimated net worth of $8 million.
Height
He standst at a height of 6 feet 1 inches (1.85 m).
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
He portrayed Lionel Dahmer in the first season of Monster. Family members of Dahmer’s victims experience sadness, terror, insomnia, and nightmares. After persuading Shirley to sue Lionel Dahmer for the profits from his book, attorney Joe Zilber files a $14 million lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee on behalf of the victims’ families. Lionel discovers that any revenues from his book will go to the victims’ families.
Dahmer began to get “fan mail” while in prison, with numerous people giving him money in exchange for autographed things. He obliges and returns them. Joe Zilber, enraged that people intend to profit by selling goods taken from Dahmer’s home, gives the dealers twice their asking price. He then sends each victim’s family a portion of what he paid, stating that all items will be burned.
Berlin Station
He played Steven Frost, a Cold War veteran who served as the CIA’s Chief of the Berlin Station in season one before retiring at the start of season two. The plot follows Daniel Miller, who has recently arrived at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany. In season one, Miller is on a covert mission to find the source of a leak that has provided information to Thomas Shaw, a now-famous whistleblower.
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Daniel, aided by veteran Hector DeJean, learns to deal with the rough-and-tumble world of the field agent: agent-running, deception, hazards, and moral compromises. In season 2, four months after being shot at the end of season one, Miller recovered enough to be assigned a new undercover mission: infiltrate a far-right German political party suspected of organizing a terrorist attack just before an upcoming election.
Olive Kitteridge
He appeared as Henry Kitteridge in the American television miniseries Olive Kitteridge. Olive Kitteridge is a retired schoolteacher who resides in the fictional seaside town of Crosby, Maine. She is married to Henry Kitteridge, a sweet, compassionate guy who owns a downtown drugstore, and they have a problematic son named Christopher, who grows up to become a podiatrist. Olive has struggled with sadness, loss, jealously, and conflict with family and friends for the past 25 years.
Six Feet Under
He portrayed Nathaniel Fisher Sr., the patriarch of the Fisher family, who dies at the beginning but reappears in dream sequences and flashbacks in the American drama television series Six Feet Under. The show, directed by Peter Krause, follows Nate Fisher, a funeral director, after his father dies and his family inherits Fisher & Sons Funeral Home. The show delves with family dynamics, dysfunction, and religion, as well as the concept of death. The show opens with a death, ranging from heart attack to murder, and employs dark comedy and surrealism. Characters frequently talk with the deceased, expressing their internal discussions through exterior conversations. Alan Ball, the show’s creator, believes it accurately depicts the characters’ lives.
Movies
♦ 2024 – IF
♦ 2021 – The Humans
♦ 2021 – Nightmare Alley
♦ 2020 – Kajillionaire
♦ 2020 – The Last Shift
♦ 2017 – Kong: Skull Island
♦ 2017 – The Shape of Water
♦ 2016 – The Hollars
♦ 2016 – LBJ
♦ 2015 – Bone Tomahawk
♦ 2015 – Spotlight
♦ 2014 – God’s Pocket
♦ 2014 – 4 Minute Mile
♦ 2014 – Lullaby
♦ 2013 – White House Down
♦ 2013 – Turbo
♦ 2013 – A.C.O.D.
♦ 2012 – Liberal Arts
TV Shows
♦ 2022 – Dahmer
♦ 2017 – Comrade Detective
♦ 2016–2019 – Berlin Station
♦ 2014 – Olive Kitteridge
♦ 2002 – Sins of the Father
♦ 2001–2005 – Six Feet Under
♦ 2001 – Ally McBeal
♦ 1997 – Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
♦ 1996 – The Boys Next Door
♦ 1993 – Alex Haley’s Queen
♦ 1993 – And the Band Played On
♦ 1992 – Afterburn
♦ 1992 – Crossroads
♦ 1991 – Doublecrossed
♦ 1990 – Challenger
♦ 1990 – When You Remember Me
♦ 1990 – Against the Law
♦ 1990 – Descending Angel