Timothy V. Murphy
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Timothy V. Murphy | |
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| Born | Timothy Vincent Murphy 5 April 1960 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Spouse | Caitlin Manley |
| Children | 1 |
Timothy Vincent Murphy (born 5 April 1960) is an Irish actor based in Los Angeles. His notable 2015 roles have been on The Bastard Executioner, Grace and Frankie, and True Detective. He played Galen O'Shea for three seasons on the Kurt Sutter FX series, Sons of Anarchy. For his portrayal, Murphy won the 2013 BuzzFocus Readers Choice Award for "Best Villain". He appeared for two seasons on NCIS: Los Angeles as Russian super-villain Sidorov, and a season on the CBS series, Criminal Minds as Emily Prentiss' nemesis/love interest, Ian Doyle. He has guest starred on such series as Hawaii Five-0, Revenge, Burn Notice, Shameless, Quantico, 24, Nip/Tuck, Alias, Six Feet Under, and Code Black.
Early life and education
[edit]Murphy was born Timothy Vincent Murphy in Tralee, County Kerry to Edward and Mary Murphy, one of six siblings. He began his career in Dublin, where he trained in the Focus Theater. He attended University College Cork, majoring in Law and Accounting.[1] Murphy also spent time travelling in South Africa, working in construction and roof laying in the Bronx, New York City, and working in bars in Florida.[1][2][3]
Career
[edit]Murphy's feature film credits include The Lone Ranger (2013); the action film parody MacGruber (2010), opposite Val Kilmer; Ed Harris' Western period drama Appaloosa (2008); the adventure thriller National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) and the horror thriller Shallow Ground (2004). In 2014, Murphy starred in Jason Momoa’s directorial debut, Road to Paloma; the Funk Brothers' film short Looms, which premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival; and the adventure drama Heaven's Floor, opposite Clea Duvall.
Murphy is also a stage actor and a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio. His theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane at South Coast Rep, for which he garnered an Ovation Award nomination, and Coast Theater's The Lost Plays of Tennessee Williams, which won the LA Weekly "Best Ensemble" Award and for which he garnered an individual "Best Performance" nomination. He originated the role of Jake in the world premiere of Stones in his Pockets at the Tivoli Theater in Dublin, and he starred opposite Tyne Daly in a production of Agamemnon staged at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California. In August 2018, he started appearing in advertisements for British price-comparison site Confused.com.
Personal life
[edit]He is married to Caitlin Manley. On 22 July 2015, their first child, Seán Fionn Murphy, was born.[4]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Home Straight | - | Short |
| 1999 | The Doorman | Milo | |
| 2001 | The Scary Side of Randall Coombe | - | |
| 2002 | The Honorable | Milo | |
| It Could Happen | Sammy Fingleton | Short | |
| 2003 | The Perfect Wife | Tim | |
| Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle | Inspector O'Dwyer | TV movie | |
| Holding Out Hope | Mark | ||
| Paddy Takes a Meeting | Paddy | Short | |
| Red Roses and Petrol | Eamonn | ||
| 2004 | Skeleton Man | Sgt. Terry | TV movie |
| Shallow Ground | Jack Sheppard | ||
| 2005 | Pit Fighter | Father Michael | |
| What's Up, Scarlet? | Vladamir Borshkoff | ||
| 2007 | Manband the Movie | R.S. Smoothskin | |
| The Antique | Tom | Short | |
| National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Seth | ||
| 2008 | Appaloosa | Vince Sullivan | |
| Beatrice | Chris | Short | |
| 2009 | Green Street Hooligans 2 | Max | Video |
| The Butcher | Tyke | ||
| Farewell to the Sparrow | - | Short | |
| 2010 | The Sierra | Bob | Short |
| MacGruber | Constantine Bach | ||
| Madso's War | Kieran Graner | TV movie | |
| Treasure of the Black Jaguar | Blake West | ||
| Love & Vengeance | - | Short | |
| 2011 | Bowman | Bowman | Short |
| Amber Lake | Sergeant Eugene Stockard | ||
| Take a Seat | Reynold | Short | |
| 2012 | Not That Funny | Finneas Patrick O'Neill | |
| Delete | Snake | Short | |
| Lost Angeles | Cliff | ||
| Taken 3: Back to Normal | Ryan Bills | Short | |
| Dark Canyon | Warden Cullen Logan | ||
| 2013 | The Frankenstein Theory | Karl McCallion | |
| The Lone Ranger | Fritz | ||
| To Hell with a Bullet | Dr. Nick Devyril | ||
| Dystopia | Marc | Short | |
| The Deal | The Man | Short | |
| 2014 | Road to Paloma | FBI Agent Williams | |
| Looms | Farmer | Short | |
| Hot Bath an' a Stiff Drink | Dutch Winfield | ||
| Keyhole | Husband | Short | |
| 2015 | New Earth on the Barrens | Felix | Short |
| 2016 | No Way to Live | Detective Frank Giddins | |
| Heaven's Floor | Jack | ||
| 2017 | Tragedy Girls | Sheriff Blane Welch | |
| Across My Land | Frank | Short | |
| Anything | Isidore | ||
| 2018 | Roisin Dubh | Barak | Short |
| The Ninth Passenger | Silas | ||
| Fuerteventura | Admiral | Short | |
| 2019 | Cuck | Bill | |
| In Full Bloom | Roane | ||
| 2020 | Broil | August Sinclair | |
| Paa | Randall | Short | |
| Bad Suns | Jones Jones III | Short | |
| Breach | Commander Stanley | ||
| 2021 | Hell Hath No Fury | Jerry | |
| New Year | Ben | ||
| 2022 | American Siege | Charles Rutledge | |
| Delilah | Gus | Short | |
| Playing Through | James Grantham | ||
| 2023 | Detective Knight: Independence | Vincent | |
| Resurrected | Father Flynn | ||
| Fire Island | Murph | ||
| Mob Land | Deputy Ben | ||
| Herd | Sterling |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Glenroe | Conor Sheehy | Episode: "Conor's Last Stand" |
| 2001 | The District | Martin McBride | Episode: "Old Ghosts" |
| V.I.P. | General Volykov | Episode: "Chasing Anna" | |
| 2002 | Six Feet Under | Louis Winchell | Episode: "Someone Else's Eyes" |
| 2003 | Fastlane | Riley Morrison | Episode: "Simone Says" |
| The Agency | IRA Man | Episode: "Spy Finance" | |
| Alias | Avery Russet | Episode: "A Missing Link" | |
| 2004 | Nip/Tuck | Quinn | Episode: "Joel Gideon" |
| 2006 | 24 | Schaeffer | Recurring Cast: Season 5 |
| 2008 | Gemini Division | Agent A | Recurring Cast: Season 1 |
| 2010 | CSI: NY | Conner Wells | Episode: "The Formula" |
| 2011 | Shameless | Vlad | Recurring Cast: Season 1 |
| Chuck | Father of the Bride | Episode: "Chuck Versus the Wedding Planner" | |
| Criminal Minds | Ian Doyle | Recurring Cast: Season 6, Guest: Season 7 | |
| 2011-13 | Sons of Anarchy | Galen O'Shay | Recurring Cast: Season 4-6 |
| 2012 | Fairly Legal | Captain Maiken | Episode: "Bait & Switch" |
| Longmire | Ephraim Hostetler | Episode: "The Dark Road" | |
| Burn Notice | Vincent Durov | Episode: "Official Business" | |
| Hell on Wheels | Bauer | Episode: "Slaughterhouse" | |
| Revenge | Dmitri Bladoff | Episode: "Lineage" | |
| 2012-13 | NCIS: Los Angeles | Isaak Sidorov | Recurring Cast: Season 4, Guest: Season 5 |
| 2013 | BlackBoxTV Presents | Gordon | Episode: "The Audition" |
| 2014 | Perception | Monsignor Eugene Norris | Episode: "Possession" |
| Hawaii Five-0 | Nick "Valentine" Mercer | Episode: "Ka Noeʻau" | |
| 2015 | Scorpion [5] | Dimitri Kreshenko | Episode: "Once Bitten, Twice Die" |
| Grace and Frankie | Byron | Recurring Cast: Season 1 | |
| True Detective | Osip Agranov | Recurring Cast: Season 2 | |
| The Bastard Executioner | Father Ruskin | Main Cast | |
| 2016 | Code Black | Dr. Dimitri Volkov | Episode: "What Lies Beneath" |
| 2017 | Chicago P.D. | Zadra | Episode: "Don't Bury This Case" |
| An Klondike | Peachy Taylor | Main Cast: Season 2 | |
| The Last Man on Earth | Benjamin Brinton | Episode: "Got Milk?" | |
| 2017-18 | Damnation | Gram Turner | Recurring Cast |
| 2018 | The Magicians | Man with the Overdue Library Book | Episode: "The Tales of the Seven Keys" |
| Westworld | Coughlin | Recurring Cast: Season 2 | |
| Taken | Lynch | Episode: "Carapace" | |
| Quantico | Conor Devlin | Recurring Cast: Season 3 | |
| 2019 | Charmed | Demon Boss | Episode: "When Sparks Fly" |
| The Man in the High Castle | Adolf Eichmann | Episode: "For Want of a Nail" | |
| 2020 | LA's Finest | Logan Kline | Recurring Cast: Season 2 |
| 2020-21 | Snowpiercer | Commander Grey | Recurring Cast: Season 1, Guest: Season 2 |
| 2021 | MacGruber | Constantine Bach | Episode: "The Hungry Lion" |
| 2021-22 | S.W.A.T. | Arthur Novak | Recurring Cast: Season 5 |
| 2023 | Law & Order: Organized Crime | Eamonn Murphy | Recurring Cast: Season 3 |
| The Company You Keep | Patrick Mcguire | Recurring Cast | |
| Tacoma FD | Gerkins Richárd | Episode: "Big Trouble in Little Belgium" |
Music videos
[edit]| Year | Artist | Song | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Christina Aguilera | "Hurt" | The Father |
| 2011 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | "If I Had a Gun" | Father of the Bride |
| 2014 | Randy Houser | "Like a Cowboy" | Wesley O'Banion |
Video games
[edit]| Year | Game | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Mafia II | Additional Voices (voice) |
| 2016 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered | Cosgrave (voice) |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Regan, Jarlath (27 December 2014). "Timothy V. Murphy". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast) (67 ed.). SoundCloud. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ^ Langan, Julie-Kathleen (20 February 2014). "Exclusive Interview with Veteran Actor Timothy V. Murphy". Actors Reporter. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ "Exclusive Murphy Interview". Lena Lamoray. 19 November 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ peoplestaff225 (30 July 2015). "Timothy V. Murphy Welcomes Son Sean Fionn". People. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Timothy V. Murphy [@timvmurphy] (14 February 2015). "Just finished shooting @ScorpionCBS" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 July 2015 – via Twitter.
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