Bill Camp


William Camp is an American character actor. He became known for playing supporting roles in many films such as Lincoln, 12 Years a Slave, Love and Mercy, Loving, Molly's Game, Vice, Wildlife, and Joker, as well as the HBO miniseries The Night Of in 2016 and The Outsider in 2020.
Camp has appeared in many television series and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his role in the miniseries The Night Of. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in the 2016 Broadway revival of the play The Crucible.

Career

Theatre

Camp was initially largely active in theatre, but has taken on character roles in both film and television. In 2002, he left acting and temporarily changed professions, only to return two years later in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul, for which he won an Obie Award.
Among his works on Broadway are Heartbreak House, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. In 2006, Camp joined, Philip Bosco and Lily Rabe in the Broadway revival of Heartbreak House at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre. In 2012, Camp joined Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Andrew Garfield in Mike Nichols' Broadway Revival of Death of a Salesman at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The show ran from March 15, 2012 through June 02, 2012 and earned rave reviews, and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. In 2016, he starred in the Broadway Revival of The Crucible alongside Saoirse Ronan, Ben Whishaw, Ciaran Hinds and Sophie Okenedo at the Walter Kerr Theatre. He received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination for The Crucible.

Film

Camp has starred in a wide variety of films such as Lincoln, 12 Years a Slave, Love and Mercy, Loving, Molly's Game, Vice, Wildlife, Dark Waters and Joker.

Television

In 2011, he appeared in the second season of the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire as the hunter Glenmore. Camp has also appeared in Law & Order, The Good Wife and The Night Of. In 2018, he played FBI agent Bob Chesney, in the critically acclaimed and Emmy-nominated miniseries The Looming Tower. In 2020, Camp became narrator of Forensic Files II on HLN.

Personal life

Camp was raised in Massachusetts, and is the son of Patricia L., a librarian, and Peter B. Camp, who was an assistant headmaster at the Groton School. He attended the University of Vermont, where he played intramural hockey. He married actress Elizabeth Marvel on September 4, 2004. They have one son.

Theater credits

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and Nominations

Emmy Award

Tony Award