Person · Actor

Billy Campbell

Born

July 7, 1959

From

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Height

1.93 m (6'4")

Also:
Camera Department
Producer

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Decades active

In short · Acting since 1981, 5 decades active, 65 credits.

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Biography

In 2019, Billy Campbell won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for his role in the CTV/HULU television series *Cardinal*, marking the second consecutive year he received the award for the series. He was also nominated for a 2018 International Emmy Award for Best Actor in a series. Campbell is also known for his co-lead role in the critically acclaimed AMC series *The Killing*, the Lifetime movie-of-the-week *Lizzie Borden Took an Ax*, DirecTV's Neil LaBute drama *Full Circle*, and the title role in Nat Geo Channel's *Killing Lincoln*, which achieved record-breaking ratings. His feature film credits include Disney's *The Rocketeer*, *Ghost Town* opposite Ricky Gervais, *Bram Stoker's Dracula* directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and the male lead in *Enough* opposite Jennifer Lopez. Billy Campbell is best known for starring in the ABC drama *Once and Again*, for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Actor - Drama Series category, as well as a People's Choice Award in the Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series category. Among his stage credits, Campbell starred in *A Winter's Tale* at The Old Globe in San Diego in 2014, as well as *Fortinbras*, for which he received a 1996 Ovation Award for best actor in LA theatre, along with *Comedy of Errors* and *Much Ado about Nothing* at The Old Globe.