Richard Jenkins

As of 2018, he has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Spotlight (2015) and The Shape of Water (2017), with the latter two being winners in the category.

He is an actor, known for The Shape of Water (2017), The Visitor (2007) and Step Brothers (2008). He has been married to Sharon R.

In both The Rum Diary (2011) and The Shape of Water (2017), it is a plot point that his character wears an obvious wig.

He attended school with Larry Shue and worked with James Pickering, according to an interview of February 20, 2009. Pickering acted as the Nerd in Shue's famous play, "The Nerd," adapted as "Laus im Pelz (1987)".

He worked as a summer truck driver for the father of actor John C. Reilly in Illinois. Jenkins coincidentally met Reilly when the latter was four years old. The two later worked together in Step Brothers (2008).

Was considered for the role of Dr. David Morgenstern on ER (1994).

A member of the Trinity Repertory Company in Rhode Island for fifteen years, he appeared in such 1970s and 1980s Trinity Repertory productions as "Brother to Dragons," "Of Mice and Men," "True West," "American Buffalo" and "Waiting for Godot"; directed such later productions as "Tartuffe," "The Glass Menagerie", "The Miser" and Shekspeare's "Macbeth" and "Twelfth Night"; and was the company's artistic director for four years.

Richard Jenkins was born on May 4, 1947 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA.