The Killing - Cast Biographies

16 June 2011

Mireille Enos 

(Sarah Linden)

Tony®-nominated Mireille Enos starred in the critically acclaimed drama Big Love. Impressed by her range and versatility, producers gave Enos a double role to play as twins Jodean and Kathy Marquart. Critics have commended Enos on her finely nuanced performance, calling her ‘luminous' and heralding her as ‘the actress who best captured the out-of-time otherness of compound life.'

Enos starred opposite Annette Bening, David Arquette and Julian Sands in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy The Female of the Species at the Geffen Playhouse and has appeared in numerous television series including: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Medium, CSI: Miami, Sex and the City and Without a Trace.

In 2005, Enos won the role of Honey in the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, opposite industry veterans Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner. It opened to glowing reviews and earned her a Tony® nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Enos joined the original cast when the play was transferred to London's West End in 2006.

 

Billy Campbell 

(Darren Richmond)

Billy Campbell appeared in the feature film Ghost Town, opposite Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni. He also worked as a series regular on the original series The 4400.

Campbell grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia and attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago where he studied illustration. He was trained at the Ted Liss Studio for the Performing Arts and the Players Workshop of Second City in Chicago and Howard Fine in Los Angeles.

Campbell starred with Sela Ward on the critically acclaimed drama, Once and Again. During the series run, the show was nominated in 1999 for a Golden Globe® for Best Drama Series and Campbell was recognized with a nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama. He also won a People's Choice Award for Best Male Performer in a New Series.

Campbell made his television debut as a guest star on the network series Family Ties and Hotel, before becoming a series regular as the character Luke Fuller on the long-running prime time drama Dynasty. His other television credits include a series regular role on Crime Story and Moon Over Miami. Campbell appeared in two Armistead Maupin acclaimed miniseries, Tales of the City and More Tales of the City, with Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis, Max Q and Monday After the Miracle, with Roma Downey and Moira Kelly. He also starred as Moses in the critically acclaimed miniseries In the Beginning, co-starring Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bissett, and he played Ted Bundy in the original movie The Stranger Beside Me.

Campbell is still recognised for the cult classic The Rocketeer with Jennifer Connelly. His feature film credits include Gettysburg, The Night We Never Met, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Enough opposite Jennifer Lopez.

 

 

Joel Kinnaman 

(Stephen Holder)

Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Joel Kinnaman quickly became a highly sought after artist after starring in the Swedish film Snabba Cash, directed by Daniel Espinosa. It was the first installment of the trilogy, based on the international bestseller written by Jens Lapidus and recently became the highest grossing Swedish film ever made.

Kinnaman received a nomination for the 2010 Guldbagge Award (Swedish equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in the Swedish mini-series Johan Falk. He is also nominated for the 2011 Guldbagge Award for Best Actor for his work on Snabba Cash.

Kinnaman is a graduate of the prestigious Swedish Academic School of Drama, whose alumni include Stellan Skarsgård, Peter Stormare and Lena Olin.

 

Michelle Forbes 

(Mitch Larsen)

Michelle Forbes starred on the groundbreaking Alan Ball series True Blood, as Maryann, a maenad who wreaked havoc in Bon Temps. Additionally, she starred as Kate Weston on the critically acclaimed series In Treatment, opposite Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest. Forbes also starred in the award-winning series Durham County as Dr. Penelope Verrity, a forensic psychiatrist who is fighting her own psychological collapse, for which she won the International Monte Carlo Golden Nymph award for Best Actress.

In the 90s, Forbes appeared in such independent films as Kalifornia, starring opposite Brad Pitt and David Duchovny, and Swimming with Sharks with Kevin Spacey, to name a few. In 1996, Forbes was asked to join the award-winning series Homicide: Life on the Street, having met Tom Fontana that same year when she starred opposite Stockard Channing in the television movie The Prosecutors, also written and produced by Lynda La Plante, the creator of Prime Suspect. Forbes then went on to do the critically hailed yet controversial and short lived series about a mental hospital, Wonderland, as well as Johnson County War, an epic western. Terribly fond of working in the United Kingdom, her other series credits include a three year stint on the lauded television series Messiah opposite Ken Stott, and a recurring role on the drama Walking the Dead. She is also a veteran of the 2nd season of 24, playing Lynn Kresge.

In 2005, Forbes starred as Admiral Helena Cain in the intelligent and politically charged Battlestar Galactica. In addition to her extensive television work, Forbes has continued to appear in such independent films as Dandelion, which was received admirably at Sundance.

 

Brent Sexton  

(Stan Larsen)

Brent Sexton was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to settling in Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television, he spent four and half years touring theatrically throughout Europe and the United States.
Sexton played Harry Manning on the critically acclaimed series Deadwood, and is known for playing Officer Bobby Stark on the series Life. He is also featured as Sheriff Hunter Mosely on the series Justified.
Sexton's feature credits include In the Valley of Elah, Flightplan, Within and Radio. Full Disclosure, a short film in which Sexton starred in 2005, garnered praise and enough attention to be the number one downloaded film in that genre on iTunes.