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Brian Markinson (born 1960 or 1961) is an American actor who has appeared in a wide variety of films and television shows. Some of Markinson's best known roles include a U.S. Attorney General in Shooter, an unscrupulous industrialist in Godzilla, and a supporting role in Angels in America.

Personal life

Markinson was born into a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Markinson trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and subsequently graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1983. He married Canadian Nancy Kerr, and their sons Isaac and Evan were both born in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. In 1999 the family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where they have resided since.

Career

Throughout his career, Markinson has appeared in many American and Canadian film and television projects. He frequently plays either an authority figure or a calculating or menacing villain. One of his most prominent roles was as Police Chief Bill Jacobs on Da Vinci's Inquest and Da Vinci's City Hall. He has also appeared on Continuum, Arctic Air, Traveler, NCIS, The L Word, NYPD Blue, Psych, Supernatural, Touching Evil, Taken, Dark Angel, UC: Undercover, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Millennium, Mad Men, Fargo, the TV film Lucky 7.

Markinson had appeared in three straight Woody Allen films in supporting character roles: Sweet and Lowdown in 1999, Small Time Crooks in 2000 and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion in 2001. Markinson was also a favorite of Mike Nichols, having appeared in more than six of the late director's projects, including the film Charlie Wilson's War. Markinson is also a stage actor, having performed both on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theatres across Canada; On Broadway, he replaced Kevin Spacey in Lost In Yonkers and in 2016, he led the revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver.

Filmography

References

1. Monk, Katherine (December 23, 1999). "Invisible Man Makes Good". The Vancouver Sun. p. C5. ...Brian Markinson, a 38-year-old Vancouver-based talent...
2. Chamberlain, Adrian (September 17, 2015). "Mad Moen actor gets theatre legs back at Belfry". Victoria Times-Colonist. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
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4. ^ Gee, Dana (April 15, 2013). "North Vancouver actor Brian Markinson kept Mad Men role quiet". Canada.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
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6. ^ "Boss Man: Interview with Continuum's Brian Markinson". SciFiAndTvTalk. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
7. Maltin, Leonard. "Brian Markinson, Biography". TCM.com. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
8. "Brian Markinson Talks The Romeo Section + A Preview of "Incendiary" - The Televixen". The Televixen. November 1, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
9. McFadden, Margaret T. (February 10, 2014). The L Word. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814338254. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
10. Phillips, Kate (April 23, 2014). "'Fargo' Recap: Boots on the Ground". ArtsBeat. Retrieved March 26, 2017.

External links

• Brian Markinson at IMDb 

• Living people
• American expatriate male actors in Canada
• Male actors from Brooklyn
• Male actors from Vancouver
• 20th-century American male actors
• 21st-century American male actors
• American male film actors
• American male television actors
• Jewish American male actors
• 21st-century American Jews
• 1960s births
• American people of Jewish descent
• Jews from New York (state)