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Sean Cullen

Sean Cullen

Born: 1960-05-09 • Buffalo, New York, USA

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.

Filmography
Worry Time poster
Worry Time
2026 • Cac Man #2
The Reunion poster
The Reunion
2024 • Mac Shepherd
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Bunker
2023 • Captain Hall
She Said poster
She Said
2022 • Lance Maerov
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The Hating Game
2021 • Anthony Templeman
Rushed poster
Rushed
2021 • Mr. Donohue
April Flowers poster
April Flowers
2020 • Fr. Randy
Unintended poster
Unintended
2019 • Sam
Framing John DeLorean poster
Framing John DeLorean
2019 • Roy
Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10 poster
Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10
2019 • Peppy Announcer (voice)
Crypto poster
Crypto
2019 • Bernard
Paterno poster
Paterno
2018 • Dan McGinn
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall poster
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018 • Judge Newport
He Does Not Want Peace poster
He Does Not Want Peace
2016 • Thomas Deline
Chronically Metropolitan poster
Chronically Metropolitan
2016 • James
Louder Than Bombs poster
Louder Than Bombs
2015 • Lars Hecht
Gabriel poster
Gabriel
2015 • Jonathan Norton
The Sound of Music Live! poster
The Sound of Music Live!
2013 • Franz
South Pacific poster
South Pacific
2010 • Cmdr. William Harbison
Cop Out poster
Cop Out
2010 • Captain Romans
Michael Clayton poster
Michael Clayton
2007 • Gene Clayton
A Wrinkle in Time poster
A Wrinkle in Time
2003 • Happy Medium
Rats poster
Rats
2003 • Lenny
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S1m0ne
2002 • Bernard, Lawyer
Cop Land poster
Cop Land
1997 • Other Cop