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This article is about the American actor. For the British actor whose birth name was Richard Jenkins, see Richard Burton.


Richard Jenkins

Jenkins as Nathaniel Fisher in Six Feet Under
BornMay 4 1947 (1947--) (age 60)
DeKalb, Illinois
Richard Jenkins (born May 4 1947) is an American actor.

Biography

Personal life

Jenkins was born in DeKalb, Illinois, the son of M. Elizabeth (née Wheeler) and Dale Stevens Jenkins.[1] Jenkins earned a degree in drama from Illinois Wesleyan University before relocating to Rhode Island. Jenkins married Sharon R. Frederick on August 23, 1969; they have two children, Sarah Pamela and Andrew Dale.[1]

Career

Jenkins worked as an actor with Trinity Repertory Theater Company in Providence, Rhode Island before breaking into film with a bit part in Feasting with Panthers (1974), a television movie.

A versatile character actor, Jenkins has steadily been working in film and television since the 1970s with other roles in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Snow Falling On Cedars (1999), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) and Intolerable Cruelty (2003) He's also an occasional collaborator with the director siblings the Farrelly brothers, who have worked with Jenkins in There's Something About Mary (1998), Me, Myself, & Irene (2000), Outside Providence (1999) and Say It Isn't So (2001).

Jenkins is probably best known for his recurring guest star role on HBO's Six Feet Under. He played Nathaniel Fisher, the deceased patriarch of the Fisher family who regularly appears to his family as a ghost, and in dreams. Jenkins played the role since the show began in 2001, through to its final season in 2005.

He acquired good critical notices as the blue collar mine worker dad that stands up for his daughter (Charlize Theron) in North Country.

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Richard Burton

Birth name Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.
Born 10 November 1925(1925--)
Pontrhydyfen, Wales, UK
Died 5 July 1984 (aged 60)
Céligny, Switzerland

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