Christian Clemenson
Christian Clemenson was born in Humboldt, Iowa, United States on March 17th, 1958 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 66, Christian Clemenson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Christian Dayton Clemenson (born March 17, 1958) is an American film and television actor.
He is best known for his role in the television series Boston Legal, where he was nominated for three Emmy Awards and the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
He has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed films, including Hannah and Her Sisters, Broadcast News, Apollo 13 and The Big Lebowski, as well as Tom Burnett in Paul Greengrass' United 93.
William Hodgman appeared in The People vs. O. J. Simpson: An American Crime Story as prosecutor William Hodgman.
Early life
Clemenson was born and raised in Humboldt, Iowa, the son of drug store owners Ruth Alzora (Dayton) and Ernest Arnold Clemenson. He distributed the Des Moines Register in his early teens, which had a long tradition of giving scholarships to top east-coast preparatory schools to a select few "paper boys." Clemenson, a straight-A junior high school student, earned a Robert scholarship to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Although Clemenson was enrolled in Phillips, his father died at the age of 58. He appeared in many musical productions at Phillips Academy.
He attended Harvard College after graduating from Phillips in 1976. He played a key role in campus stage performances from his freshman year to his graduation. A Harvard Crimson theater critic characterized Clemenson as "hugely talented actor with the ability to induce hysteria with any of a dozen subtle expressions or inflections." "A tour de force of sheer talent and intelligence" in Shakespeare's Tale) (in The Winter's Tale) and "a very fine and subtle appearance" (in Measure for Measure). In Peter Sellars' Loeb Drama Center puppet performance of Wagner's Ring cycle (1979), he performed with remarkable nerism and amusing effect the hugely solemn role of Erde "the green-faced torso," goddess of the Earth.
He will return to Humboldt to perform in, and later direct, local community theater performances at Humboldt's Castle Theatre during many summers.
He moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Harvard College in 1980 and the Yale School of Drama in 1984.
Career
Clemenson began his career in a number of character roles in film and television. He was a law student in the television version of The Paper Chase, Alex Keaton's English teacher in the television show Family Ties, a security salesman on The Golden Girls, a suspect in season 10, episode 14 of NYPD Blue, a bailiff in the Ivan Reitman movie Legal Eagles, a flight surgeon in the movie Apollo 13, a cop in The Big Lebowski, a killer in The Fisher King, and Dr. Dale Lawrence in the movie And the Band Played On. He had a regular role as Socrates Poole, a lawyer in the Old West, in the Fox series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
In 1999, Clemenson appeared in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Bad Girls" as a grotesquely obese demon named Balthazar. He wore a large padded suit and extensive make-up for the role, and the character's repulsive, villainous nature contradicted many of his earlier roles.
Clemenson became well-known for his role as Jerry "Hands" Espenson on the television series Boston Legal. For playing Espenson, he won an Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2006 and was nominated for the same award in 2007. He remained with the series through to its finale in 2008.
Clemenson starred in the film United 93 as Tom Burnett, one of the victims of the 9/11 hijacking of the flight that crashed in rural Pennsylvania after a passenger revolt. He also had a recurring role on Veronica Mars as Abel Koontz. In total, Clemenson appeared in three episodes of the show: "Like a Virgin", "Mars vs. Mars", and "Rat Saw God". Clemenson also has appeared in a season 6 episode of NCIS, "Dead Reckoning". He also appeared in two season 2 episodes of The Mentalist. He also played Jimmy Masterson on the 3rd episode of Memphis Beat, "Love Me Tender".
In 2009, Clemenson joined CSI: Miami as the new medical examiner, Dr. Tom Loman. He appeared throughout the show's eighth, ninth, and tenth seasons as a recurring character. In 2013, he appeared as a guest star in Harry's Law.
In 2016, he played Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman in American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson.