Bill Camp
Bill Camp is an American actor. He has played supporting roles in many films such as Lincoln, Compliance, Lawless, 12 Years a Slave, Love & Mercy, Loving, Molly's Game, Vice, Wildlife, Joker, News of the World, and Sound of Freedom ; the HBO miniseries The Night Of in 2016 and The Outsider in 2020; and the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit in 2020. He had a recurring role in the HBO drama series The Leftovers from 2015 to 2017 and the Hulu space drama series The First in 2018.
Camp has appeared in many television series and received two Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his role in the miniseries The Night Of and for the legal thriller series Presumed Innocent. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in the 2016 Broadway revival of the play The Crucible.
Early life
Camp was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Groton, 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 but left without a degree, later graduating from the Juilliard School.Career
Theatre
Initially, Camp was largely active in theater, but has subsequently 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 2, 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.
Off-Broadway credits include starring as Gordon in Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons in 2008, before having to withdraw due to other work commitments.
Film
Camp has been in a wide variety of films such as Lincoln, 12 Years a Slave, Love and Mercy, Loving, Molly's Game, Woman Walks Ahead, Vice, Wildlife, Dark Waters, Joker, and The Kitchen.On August 30, 2021, it was announced that Camp would appear as Matthew Burke in an adaptation of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot for Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. He played a supporting role in Sound of Freedom, starring Jim Caviezel. In 2023 he played funeral home owner Ray Loewen in The Burial.