Acting

Paul Sparks

Born October 16, 1971 · Lawton, Oklahoma, USA (age 54)

Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his role as Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire and for his Primetime Emmy Award-nominated role as Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. He has also appeared in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), and Stealing Cars (2015).

Known For

The Mortuary Assistant

The Mortuary Assistant · 2026

The Mortuary Assistant

MovieHorrorMystery

Rebecca Owens, a recent mortuary science graduate takes a night shift job at River Fields Mortuary. Initially, the job seems straightforward — embalming bodies, completing paperwork, and keeping things tidy. But once Rebecca starts working the night shift, things take a dark turn.

The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman · 2017

The Greatest Showman

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The Bikeriders

The Bikeriders · 2024

MovieCrimeDrama

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness · 2010

Edge of Darkness

MovieCrimeDrama

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married · 2008

Rachel Getting Married

MovieDramaRomance

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York · 2008

Synecdoche, New York

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Mud

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

Deception

Deception · 2008

MovieThrillerMystery

As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.

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The Mortuary Assistant

The Mortuary Assistant · 2026

The Mortuary Assistant

MovieHorrorMystery

Rebecca Owens, a recent mortuary science graduate takes a night shift job at River Fields Mortuary. Initially, the job seems straightforward — embalming bodies, completing paperwork, and keeping things tidy. But once Rebecca starts working the night shift, things take a dark turn.

Raymond Delver

The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman · 2017

The Greatest Showman

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

James Gordon Bennett

The Bikeriders

The Bikeriders · 2024

MovieCrimeDrama

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

Gary Rogue Leader

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness · 2010

Edge of Darkness

MovieCrimeDrama

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

Northampton Police Detective

Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married · 2008

Rachel Getting Married

MovieDramaRomance

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

12-Step Meeting Member

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York · 2008

Synecdoche, New York

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Derek

Mud

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

Carver

Deception

Deception · 2008

MovieThrillerMystery

As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.

Detective Burke

Parkland

Parkland · 2013

MovieHistoryDrama

November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.

Harry McCormick

Midnight Special

Midnight Special · 2016

Midnight Special

MovieAdventureDrama

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

Agent Miller

Thoroughbreds

Thoroughbreds · 2018

MovieDramaThriller

Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.

Mark

Human Capital

Human Capital · 2020

MovieCrimeDrama

Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change their lives forever. At the same time, the accident has a major impact on both their families who, despite the class difference, cross paths.

Jon

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

Lost on a Mountain in Maine · 2024

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

MovieAdventureDrama

When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from sight. And he doesn't count on taking a turn that leaves him alone to wander aimlessly for nearly two weeks in the empty mountain wilderness.

Mr. Donald Fendler

The Lovebirds

The Lovebirds · 2020

MovieRomanceComedy

A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.

Moustache

Please Give

Please Give · 2010

MovieComedyDrama

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Blind Date

Headspace

Headspace · 2005

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.

Jason

Trust Me

Trust Me · 2013

MovieComedyDrama

In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.

Ray

Afterschool

Afterschool · 2009

A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

Detective Eclisse

Eric LaRue

Eric LaRue · 2025

Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.

Steve Calhan

Stealing Cars

Stealing Cars · 2016

A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system.

Conrad Sean Lewis

The Understudy

The Understudy · 2012

MovieComedyDrama

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

Bobby

Blackbird

Blackbird · 2007

In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.

Baylis

The Missing Person

The Missing Person · 2009

The Missing Person

MovieComedyDrama

John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.

Gus Papitos

Return

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

Ed

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · 1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

SeriesCrimeDrama

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Marty Potter / Marvin Posey

Law & Order

Law & Order · 1990

SeriesCrimeDrama

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Paul Luterik

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent · 2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.

Keith Durbin

Person of Interest

Person of Interest · 2011

Person of Interest

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars.

Wilson

The Crown

The Crown · 2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Reverend Billy Graham

Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire · 2010

Boardwalk Empire

SeriesCrimeDrama

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

Mieczysław 'Mickey' Doyle

House of Cards

House of Cards · 2013

Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.

Thomas Yates

The Girlfriend Experience

The Girlfriend Experience · 2016

The Girlfriend Experience

Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

David Tellis

Castle Rock

Castle Rock · 2018

SeriesMysteryDrama

Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.

John "Ace" Merrill

The Lowdown

The Lowdown · 2025

SeriesCrimeDrama

Follow the gritty exploits of citizen journalist Lee Raybon, a self-proclaimed Tulsa "truthstorian" whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble.

Mark Sternwick

The Night Of

The Night Of · 2016

SeriesCrimeDrama

After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

Don Taylor

The Better Sister

The Better Sister · 2025

The Better Sister

SeriesDramaCrime

Chloe moves in New York's most elite circles with her lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky tries to make ends meet and stay clean. When Adam is brutally murdered, the investigation sends shockwaves through the family and exposes long-buried secrets.

Ken

Get Shorty

Get Shorty · 2017

SeriesCrimeComedy

Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.

Owen

Physical

Physical · 2021

SeriesComedyDrama

Sheila Rubin is a quietly tormented housewife in ’80s San Diego. Behind closed doors, she battles extreme personal demons and a vicious inner voice. But things change when she discovers aerobics, sparking a journey toward empowerment and success.

John Breem

Joe Pickett

Joe Pickett · 2021

SeriesDramaWestern

A game warden and his family navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming on the verge of economic collapse. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered.

Wacey

Brotherhood

Brotherhood · 2006

SeriesCrimeDrama

A working-class Irish family rules a city built on loyalty and corruption. The Caffee brothers, Tommy, a rising politician desperate for reelection, and Michael, a hardened criminal returning from seven years on the run and eager to reclaim his turf, fight for survival on opposite sides of the law. In their ruthless quest for power, the entire Caffee family is driven to lies, betrayal and infidelity -- threatening to tear them and the city of Providence, RI apart.

Aaron

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 2011

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

Ted Hobey

Waco

SeriesCrimeDrama

The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.

Steve Schneider

Sweetbitter

Sweetbitter · 2018

Shortly after arriving in New York City, 22-year-old Tess lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and fine dining, she learns to navigate the chaotically alluring, yet punishing life she has stumbled upon.

Howard

Random Acts of Flyness

Random Acts of Flyness · 2018

Random Acts of Flyness

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.

Joel