Robert Knepper

At 64 years old, Robert Knepper has this physical status:

Robert Lyle Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor best known for his role as Theodore "Bag" Bagwell in the Fox drama series Prison Break (2005–2017), Samuel Sullivan in the final season of NBC's Heroes (2005–2017), Angus McDonough and Rodney Mitchum in Showtime's revival of Twin Peaks (2017).

He has appeared in films including Hitman (2007) and Transporter 3 (2008).

Early life

Knepper was born in Fremont, Ohio, and raised in Maumee, Ohio, as the son of Pat Deck and Donald Knepper, a veterinarian, and a surgeon. He was keen on acting from an early age due to his mother's service as a props-handler at a community theater. Knepper earned a Ph.D. degree from Maumee High School in 1977, and he continued to work in Chicago during this time. Knepper resigned from Northwestern and moved to New York City, where he continued to work in theater nearing the completion of his education.

Personal life

Benjamin Peter (born 2002) and his first wife, Tory Herald, have a son. In 2013, Nadine Kary, his second wife, married him.

Costume designer Susan Bertram accused Knepper of sexual assault on the set of the 1991 film Gas Food Lodging on November 8, 2017. In a since-deleted Instagram post, Knepper denied the charges. Bertram's counsel announced on February 28, 2018, that she was bringing a defamation complaint against Knepper in Los Angeles County Superior Court, following his denials and demanding damages in a jury hearing. He defamed Bertram, according to Knepper's lawyers. Bertram's advocate announced that the case had been settled on June 1, 2021; the terms had not been disclosed.

On December 5, 2017, four new charges dating between 1983 and 2013 were lodged against Knepper, including one accusing rape in Vancouver in 2010. Knepper denied all of the charges.

The CW opened an internal probe late in 2017, in the aftermath of these allegations. It was revealed that he would be retaining iZombie after there was no evidence of misconduct on the set. On January 12, 2018, it was revealed that the studio had launched a second inquiry. "Again, the probe relates to the set and his conduct on the set," CW president Mark Pedowitz said. "They found no wrongdoing on the programme." Knepper had been inactive for a single season, according to Pedowitz, and that his departure from the series had already been planned.

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Career

Despite the fact that Knepper never set out to work in film or television production, he began his television and film careers in 1986 with The Paper Chase and That's Life. Knepper continued to appear in films including Wild Thing, Young Guns II, When the Bough Breaks and Everyone Says I Love You. He appeared on television shows such as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Law & Order, and Intuitive Zone. Knepper appeared in his best-known role in Carnivàle's 2005 as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in Prison Break. On release, the series received glowing feedback, and "T-Bag" is often considered one of the best television villains of all time. Knepper appeared in a number of films during his time on Prison Break; Good Luck, Hitman, Transporter 3; and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

In the fourth and final season of Heroes, Knepper was cast as villain Samuel Sullivan after Prison Break ended in 2009. He went on to play a role in Stargate Universe in 2010. Rhett Walden, a serial killer, appeared on season six of Criminal Minds as a serial killer. In the film version of Burning Daylight, he played the titular role.

In addition, Knepper appeared in two episodes of Hawaii Five-0 as Honolulu Police Internal Affairs detective Rex Coughlin.

In 2011, he reprised his role as T-Bag in one episode of A&E's Breakout Kings. Frank Sinatra appeared in My Way, a biopic of Claude François, a French pop singer who wrote the song "Comme d'habitude" the first interpretation of Sinatra's "My Way" in the United Kingdom, next year.

Roger Reeves, an actor playing Billy Grimm on a show called Cult, was cast as Knepper in the 2013 television series Cult. After only one season, the show was cancelled. He appeared in R.I.P.D., Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and guest starred on the television series The Blacklist in the same year (episode: "The Courier"). The TNT series Mob City premiered in 2013, in which Knepper played gangster Sid Rothman. In 2014, Knepper guest David Tockman/Clock King appeared in episodes of Arrow and The Flash as master hacker and time-and-motion study expert William Tockman / Clock King.

Knepper has played Angus McDonough, the estranged and neglectful father of Blaine DeBeers (David Anders), on iZombie since 2015. Knepper will be promoted to the show's main cast for season 4, according to a press release in July 2017.

Rodney Mitchum, a gangster, was cast in David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival as Knepper. Later in the show's tie-in epistolary book The Secret History of Twin Peaks, he appeared in audiobook form.

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