Will Patton Biography

Fast Facts

• His father, who was a teacher, actor, director, playwright and commercial fisherman, also ran a camp for at-risk children and was a Lutheran chaplain at Duke University
• Studied under Lee Strasberg at New York's Actors Studio
• Won three Obie (off-Broadway) Awards in the 1980s
• Made TV debut in the 1981 TV-movie Kent State
• Appeared on the soap operas Ryan's Hope and Search for Tomorrow in the '80s
• Film credits include Silkwood, Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours, No Way Out, Armageddon, Remember the Titans and A Mighty Heart
• Was a regular on the 2001-03 CBS spy drama The Agency; other notable TV credits include Numb3rs and 24
• Provided the voice of John Wilkes Booth in the 2009 American Experience documentary The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Has recorded more than 30 audiobooks, including numerous James Lee Burke mysteries; was named Best Voice in Mysteries & Suspense by AudioFiles magazine in 2008 and '09