Christopher Stanley

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Christopher Stanley (born 1965 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is an American actor . He gained fame primarily through the recurring supporting role of Henry Francis in the award-winning US television series Mad Men (since 2009).

Life

Christopher Stanley was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he grew up with four brothers. He completed his acting training at the Loft Studio founded in 1973 by Peggy Feury and Bill Traylor on the US East Coast . He also took lessons from the American actor Robert Lewis , co-founder of the Actors Studio , and the Panamanian theater director José Quintero .

In his early years as an actor, he appeared under the name Chris Stanley . He made his film debut in 1986 with an extra role in J. Lee Thompson's police film Murphy's Law . From 1990 until 1991 held the Stanley recurring role of the agent Nick Biaggi in the television series DEA from Fox . The crime series, striving for seriousness and authenticity, was about a New York special unit for the fight against drugs (Drug Enforcement Administration), which also operates across the borders of the United States. In Germany, the series was combined into two feature films ( Das Kartell des Todes , 1991; Das Kartell des Todes II , 1992) and marketed as VHS .

After DEA was hired , Stanley was mainly featured in guest roles in nearly two dozen series in the years that followed, including well-known formats such as Practice - The Lawyers , The X Files - The FBI's Scary Cases , Boston Legal , 24 and Without a Trace disappeared . He was often cast in the role of the police officer. He played one of the few recurring roles in the crime series New York Cops - NYPD Blue , in which he was seen as the racist officer Szymanski who messes with a black lieutenant ( James McDaniel ).

Stanley became known to a broad American television audience from 2009 through the American series Mad Men , which was set in the 1960s . From season three, Stanley took on the supporting role of Henry Francis , an influential political advisor on the staff of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller , who falls in love with the main female character Betty Draper (played by January Jones ) and finally marries after her divorce. In 2010 Stanley was honored with a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Mad Men acting company .

In addition to Mad Men , Stanley guest-starred as unscrupulous lawyer Mark Cordell on The Defenders (2010) series. In 2012 he took on a small supporting role in Ben Affleck's thriller Argo . In the same year he appeared in Zero Dark Thirty as Admiral William H. McRaven .

Christopher Stanley is married. He is enthusiastic about the Boston sports clubs Red Sox , Celtics and the New England Patriots . Boxing has been one of his hobbies since his youth.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

  • 1986: Murphy's Law (Murphy's Law)
  • 1991: The Cartel of Death (Death Merchants I)
  • 1992: The Cartel of Death II (Death Merchants II)
  • 1994: Kangaroo Court (short film)
  • 1996: Surrogate Mother
  • 1996: Crosscut - Pursued by the Mafia (Crosscut)
  • 2012: Argo
  • 2012: Zero Dark Thirty

TV series (selection)

Awards

  • 2010: Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Mad Men acting company
  • 2011: Nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the acting company of Mad Men

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at amctv.com (accessed July 9, 2012).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amctv.com
  2. ↑ The Cartel of Death in the Lexicon of International Films (accessed on July 9, 2012 via zweiausendeins.de).
  3. ^ The Cartel of Death II in the Lexicon of International Films (accessed on July 9, 2012 via zweiausendeins.de).
  4. ↑ Q&A - Christopher Stanley (Henry Francis) ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at blogs.amctv.com, September 14, 2010 (accessed July 9, 2012).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.amctv.com
  5. ↑ cf. Image of Christopher and Kim Stanley at the 2011 DPA Golden Globes Gift Suite (accessed July 10, 2012 via zimbio.com).
personal data
SURNAME Stanley, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island