Fred Weller

Fred Weller
Weller in April 2012
Born	Frederick Breithoff Weller[1] (1966-04-18) April 18, 1966 (age 58) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Education	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Juilliard School (GrDip)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Ali Marsh ​ ​ (m. 2003)​
Children	2

Frederick Breithoff Weller[1] (born April 18, 1966) is an American actor known for portraying Johnny Sandowski on Missing Persons, Shane Mungitt in Take Me Out and Marshall Mann on In Plain Sight.

Early life

Weller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of three sons of lawyers Carole Ann (née Breithoff) Weller (died 2017) and Francis Weller (1922–2018).[2][1][3] He is a 1984 graduate of Jesuit High School, a Catholic all-boys high school in New Orleans.[4] He graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988.[2][5][6] He then studied acting at The Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Division's Group 21 (1988–1992).[7]

Career

In 1993, Weller was one of the main regulars in the TV series Missing Persons. He has made guest appearances in episodes of Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Monk and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He has also appeared in several well-received films, such as Stonewall, The Business of Strangers, The Shape of Things, and the 2000 drama/miniseries The Beach Boys: An American Family portraying the character Brian Wilson. He starred in the USA Network comedy-drama series In Plain Sight as Deputy U.S. Marshal Marshall Mann.

He appeared on Broadway in 2003 in the Tony award-winning play Take Me Out in which he appeared completely nude, and in 2014 in the Terrence McNally play Mothers and Sons. In 2018, he appeared on Broadway as Bob Ewell in Aaron Sorkin's To Kill a Mockingbird, an adaptation of Harper Lee's novel.[8]

Weller has played lead roles in many successful independent films, including Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things (with Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz and Gretchen Mol), James Toback's When Will I Be Loved (opposite Neve Campbell) and The Business of Strangers (with Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles).

Personal life

Weller married actress Ali Marsh on September 6, 2003.[2] They have two children, a daughter born in 2007, whose godmother is his In Plain Sight co-star Mary McCormack,[9] and a son born in 2010. He and his family live in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Bugsy	Architect Assistant	Uncredited
1995	Stonewall	Matty Dean	Main character
1996	Basquiat	Frank
1997	Hudson River Blues	Ron
1998	How to Make the Cruelest Month	Rickey
	Harvest	Bucky Upton
	Armageddon	NASA Tech
1999	Puppet	Rick	Main character (co-star). Puppet was never released to the general public[11]
2001	The Business of Strangers	Nick Harris	Main character
2003	The Shape of Things	Philip	Main character
	The Pink House	Young Pritchard
2004	When Will I Be Loved	Ford Welles	Main character
2005	Southern Belles	Tracy Hampton
	Four Lane Highway	Sean
2008	Life in Flight	Kit
2009	Streetcar	Darko	Short; also writer and director
	Buffalo Bushido	Wendyl
2012	The Normals	Lannigan
2014	Bad Country	Detective Shepard
2016	The Free World	Officer Ryan
	The Fundamentals of Caring	Bob Richardson
2018	BlacKkKlansman	Patrolman Andy Landers
2022	Out of the Blue	Deputy Fox
	Causeway	Rick
	The Independent	Spencer Erickson

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	I'll Fly Away	Jimmy Yates	Episode: "I’ll Fly Away"
1993	Law & Order	Dan Garrett	Episode: "Promises to Keep"
	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Eliot Ness	Episode: "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues"
1993–1994	Missing Persons	Investigator Johnny Sandowski	Main character (regular cast), all 17 episodes
1997	Gold Coast	Arnold Rapp	TV movie
1998	Dellaventura	Mark Matthews	Episode: "David & Goliath"
1999	Aftershock: Earthquake in New York	Nicholai Karvovsky	TV movie; main character
2000	The Beach Boys: An American Family	Brian Wilson	2 episodes
	Madigan Men	Sebastian James	Episode: "Bachelors"
	In the Beginning	Jacob	2 episodes
2003	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Preston Bennett	Episode: "Tortured"
2004	The Jury	Holden Bradford	Episode: "Memories"
2004–2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Dale Mullen/Simon Harper II	2 episodes
2006	Related	Lucas	Episode: "The Move"
	Monk	Jay Bennett	Episode: "Mr. Monk, Private Eye"
2008–2012	In Plain Sight	Marshall Mann	Main character (co-star), all 61 episodes
2009	Wainy Days	Stosh	2 episodes
2010–2013	The Good Wife	Wilk Hobson	2 episodes
2011	Blue Bloods	Jacob Krystal	3 episodes
2012	Childrens Hospital	Elliot	Episode: "A Year in the Life"
2013	Alpha House	Digger Mancusi	Episode: "Zingers"
2014	The Michael J. Fox Show	Will	Episode: "Couples"
	Those Who Kill	Nathan Schaeffer	Episode: "Souvenirs"
	Person of Interest	Novak	Episode: "Panopticon"
2015	The Knick	Mr. Brockhurst	2 episodes
	Forever	Eddie Warsaw	Episode: "Punk Is Dead"
2016	Elementary	Ronnie Wright	Episode: "Ready or Not"
	Banshee	Declan Bode	4 episodes
	Bull	Pete Peters	Episode: "The Necklace"
	Conviction	Lewis Anderson	Episode: "Bridge and Tunnel Vision"
2017	The Blacklist	Joe Peracchio	Episode: "Philomena (No. 61)"
	Odd Mom Out	Dean	2 episodes
2018	Mosaic	Eric	9 episodes
	The Path	Remy	Episode: "The Door"
2019–2020	At Home with Amy Sedaris	Walter / Blaze	2 episodes

References

1. "Carole Breithoff Weller Obituary (2017)". The Times-Picayune. April 14, 2017. Archived from the original on September 18, 2022. Retrieved September 18, 2022. Carole was one of the first 50 female lawyers in the State of Louisiana. She continued to practice law until 6 months ago, and she argued before the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal only 2 months before she was diagnosed with renal cancer. Carole was able to balance a law practice with raising a family, at a time when this type of dual role was almost unheard-of. Her unconditional love for her husband and sons lasted until the very end of her life;
2. "Weddings/Celebrations; Ali Marsh, Frederick Weller". New York Times. September 7, 2003. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
3. "Francis G. Weller Obituary (1922 - 2018)". The Times-Picayune. April 7, 2018. Archived from the original on September 18, 2022. Retrieved September 18, 2022. He was preceded in death by his loving wife Carole, his twin brother Frederick, his sister Lois Becksfort, and his brother Willet Patrick Weller. He is survived by his three sons, Franz, Frederick, and Garald;
4. "Jesuit Alumni in the News". Jesuit High School. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
5. "Alumni Today". Carolina Alumni Review. UNC General Alumni Association. July–August 2010. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
6. Stevens, Alexander (July 9, 2008). "Broadway and TV actor Fred Weller comes to Boston for Shakespeare's sake". WickedLocal.com. Gatehouse News Service.
7. "Alumni News". The Juilliard School. September 2007. Archived from the original on November 11, 2011.
8. Holdren, Sara (December 13, 2018). "Theater Review: Aaron Sorkin's To Kill a Mockingbird Adaptation Walks the Walk". Vulture. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
9. Gallagher, Brian (June 1, 2008). "Mary McCormack and Frederick Weller Dish on In Plain Sight". MovieWeb. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
10. La Gorce, Tammy (January 18, 2018). "How Fred Weller, Actor, Spends His Sundays". The New York Times. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
11. "[T]hat summer [of 1996], I booked my first role, in an independent movie called Puppet. […] This film, which to this day I have never seen because I don't think it's possible to purchase a copy of it anywhere at any price, starred Rebecca Gayheart and Fred Weller […] I don't know anyone who has ever seen or even heard of Puppet. All I can say is that it was screened in a theater at least once, because my manager went to see it." Lange, Artie, with Anthony Bozza and Howard Stern (2009). Too Fat to Fish, Random House Digital, Inc, ISBN 9780385526579, p. 172)

External links

• Fred Weller at IMDb
• Fred Weller at the Internet Broadway Database
• Fred Weller at the Internet Off-Broadway Database