Ted Levine

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Ted Levine (2008)

Ted Levine (born May 29, 1957 in Bellaire , Belmont County , Ohio , own Frank Theodore Levine ) is an American film and television actor who mainly works as a supporting actor in films and series. In the German-speaking world, he is best known for his role as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series Monk and as the serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs .

biography

Levine was born in Bellaire on May 29, 1957 . His father, Milton Dmitri Levine, was Russian-Jewish and his mother, Charlotte Virginia Levine (née Clark), was of Welsh descent. He attended elementary school in Bellaire and later the alternative Marlboro College in Marlboro , Vermont . He first played in theaters in Vermont, Michigan and Chicago in the early 1980s , where he received a Masters of Fine Arts from university . He now works mainly for film and television. In the 1980s he worked, among other things, in the series Crime Story . However, he did not gain worldwide attention until 1991 as the serial killer Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs . Levine did not want to be tied to the role of a psychopath and in the following years played less abysmal characters: military men, police officers or family men. In 1998 he appeared with Patrick Stewart in the two-part television adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick . From 2002 to 2009 he took on the role of Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on the side of Tony Shalhoub in the series Monk .

Ted Levine is married with two children.

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personal data
SURNAME Levine, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levine, Frank Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellaire , Ohio , USA