Sean Cullen

Birthday: 1960-05-09
Birthplace: Buffalo, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Sean Cullen was awarded the 2024 Katherine Cornell Award for his portrayal of Joe Keller in "All My Sons," at Buffalo's Road Less Traveled Theater. He's appearing now in the streaming series "The Green Veil," starring John Leguizamo; and later this year will play Mac Shepard in "The Reunion," a new feature written and directed by Roland Ellis. Sean's previous credits include Maria Schrader's "She Said" (Universal), with Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan; and "The Hating Game," adapted from the best-selling novel and directed by Peter Hutchings. Sean has appeared in Tony Gilroy's Oscar-nominated "Michael Clayton," starring George Clooney; and Lincoln Center's Tony-Award-Winning "Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific," directed by Bart Sher and starring Kelli O'Hara. Sean's other film work includes "Revolutionary Road," directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio; "He Does Not Want Peace," starring David Strathairn and Lindsay Duncan; "Simone," his first project with Al Pacino; "Cop Out," directed by Kevin Smith and starring Bruce Willis and Tracey Morgan; "Rushed," starring Siobhan Fallon Hogan; "Unintended," starring Elizabeth Lail, directed by Anja Murmann; and Universal's "DeLorean," starring Alec Baldwin. Sean's TV credits include the recurring role of FBI Director William Webster in David Fincher's "Mindhunter" (Netflix); and guest-starring appearances in "I Know This Much Is True," adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance (HBO); Barry Levinson's "Paterno" (HBO), his second project with Al Pacino; "Bull" (CBS); "The Blacklist" (NBC); and a recurring role on "Suits" (USA). He also appeared as "Franz" in "NBC's The Sound of Music Live," starring Carrie Underwood. Sean's Broadway credits also include Clifford Odet's "Golden Boy," starring Yvonne Strahovski and Tony Shaloub; "James Joyce's The Dead," starring Christopher Walken; and the National Theatre of Great Britain's production of "Coram Boy." He has also appeared at more than twenty of America's leading regional theater's, including the Kennedy Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, San Francisco's A.C.T., the Ahmanson Theatre, Seattle Rep, the Alley Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Sean was awarded a Portland (Oregon) "Drammy" for his work in Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman"; he shared in the San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Ensemble Award," playing "Gabriel Conroy" in Richard Nelson's "James Joyce's The Dead"; and he was recognized with a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Award for playing Tom in "The Glass Menagerie." in 2020, Sean returned to his hometown of Buffalo, New York, where Road Less Traveled Productions recognized him as that theatre's "American Theater Master." In 2011, Bishop TImon-St. Jude High School honored him with its first "Timon Center for Media & the Arts Distinguished Alumnus Award." Sean is also a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and the Yale School of Drama.

Credits

Year Title Character
2024-10-17 The Reunion Mac Shepherd
2023-09-14 Bunker Captain Hall
2022-11-17 She Said Lance Maerov
2021-12-09 The Hating Game Anthony Templeman
2021-08-27 Rushed Mr. Donohue
2020-10-22 April Flowers Fr. Randy
2019-11-07 Unintended Sam
2019-06-07 Framing John DeLorean Roy
2019-05-18 Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10 Peppy Announcer (voice)
2019-04-12 Crypto Bernard
2018-04-07 Paterno Dan McGinn
2018-03-02 The Vanishing of Sidney Hall Judge Newport
2016-08-11 He Does Not Want Peace Thomas Deline
2016-06-24 Chronically Metropolitan James
2015-10-01 Louder Than Bombs Lars Hecht
2014-04-17 Gabriel Jonathan Norton
2013-12-05 The Sound of Music Live! Franz
2010-08-18 South Pacific Cmdr. William Harbison
2010-02-26 Cop Out Captain Romans
2007-09-28 Michael Clayton Gene Clayton
2003-04-25 A Wrinkle in Time Happy Medium
2003-01-15 Rats Lenny
2002-08-23 S1m0ne Bernard, Lawyer
1997-08-15 Cop Land Other Cop