Award-winning American actor, writer and director, Chris Mulkey has a long and diverse career in film, television and stage. Chris is best known for On the Basis of Sex (2018), Whiplash (2014), Captain Phillips (2013), Twin Peaks (1990), Castle Rock (2018), Broken Trail (2006), Any Day Now (1998) and Boardwalk Empire (2010).
Chris grew up in the Midwest, majored in acting at the University of Minnesota and spent four years as a company member of the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis. While in Minnesota, Chris starred in Loose Ends (1975), the Grand Prize winner at the USA film Festival. Chris moved to Hollywood 1975, married actress/artist Karen Landry and they moved to Venice Beach. The couple wrote and starred in Patti Rocks (1988), an independent film that won the Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. Chris and Karen often worked together in film and on stage in LA, New York, and the Twin Cities.
Chris is also a songwriter with original songs featured in films and television and can be seen playing around the country with his band Chris Mulkey and Deluxe.
In the twilight of the Wild West, one man's mission to avenge his parents' death turns hopeful when he discovers true love and the promise of a new life.
In 1956, Del Rio, Texas, a Mexican-American school superintendent, forms a high school golf team with a group of local caddies after facing racial rejection from the elite country club. As they train and compete against wealthier, all-white opponents, the boys and their mentor must confront prejudice and prove that heart and perseverance can overturn long-standing barriers.
The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
In April 2009, Captain Richard Phillips took command of the MV Maersk Alabama, a US-flagged cargo ship sailing through the Gulf of Aden. When Somali pirates intercept the vessel, Phillips works to protect his crew from the hostile boarding party. What follows is a standoff between two men from two different worlds, both operating under pressures far beyond their control. A biographical thriller about duty, survival, and what it costs to keep other people safe.
A wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.
A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
