Skipp Sudduth
Skipp Sudduth was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, United States on August 23rd, 1956 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 68, Skipp Sudduth 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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Robert Lee "Skipp" Sudduth IV (born August 23, 1956) is an American theater, film, and television actor.
He is perhaps best known for his role in Ronin's 1998 film and his lead in the television drama Third Watch.
Early life and education
Sudduth attended George Washington High School in Danville, Virginia, and was the son of an engineer and a nurse. Sudduth obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Hampden–Sydney College. He is actor Kohl Sudduth's older brother. In 1985, Sudduth received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Virginia.
Career
Sudduth served for a year as the head of alumni relations at his alma mater in the college's then-new president Josiah Bunting III, author of The Lionheads and future commandant of The Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Sudduth spent a year as an apprentice to the winemaker, poet and vintner Tom O'Grady at Rose Bower Vineyard and Winery. Sudduth was active in community and campus theater, directing and producing the annual comedy examination at Hampden-Sydney College.
Sudduth returned to school the following year to study in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia's Department of Drama. Spencer Golub, who would eventually head the Drama Department at Brown University, met and worked with him at UVA. Sudduth's attempt at acting was based on Golub's emphasis on physically liberating the imagination by extensive guided improvisation. Sudduth appeared extensively during his time at UVA, including Matthew Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class and Peter Shaffer's Equus, which featured the first full male and female nudity ever permitted on stage in a production at UVA.
Sudduth moved to Chicago in December 1985, aspiring to work with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Sudduth appeared in several stage productions, including Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Emily Mann's Execution of Justice, and Nebraska (by screenwriter John Logan), during his four and a half years in Chicago, including Sudduth's The Aviator. He has appeared in stage adaptations of The Grapes of Wrath, On the Waterfront, and A Clockwork Orange, as well as the 1999 Broadway production of Woody Allen's play Riverside Drive (starring Paul Reiser). He appeared in Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center (with Helen Hunt).
Sudduth's film career has included small roles in 54 (1998), A Cool, Dry Place (1998), and Spike Lee's Clockers (1995), as well as larger roles in Ronin (1999) and Flawless (1999). Sudduth, a keen amateur racing/stunt racer, did almost all of the driving in Ronin.
Skipp Sudduth played a regular role in One Life to Live, but his role in the NBC drama Third Watch portrayal of NYPD officer John "Sully" Sullivan was most well-known. Sudduth appeared on all six seasons of the show, and his role is one of the leading ensembles of eight around whom the underlying story arc revolves. In season four, he earned his Directors Guild of America card, directing the episode "Collateral Injury, Part II." Sudduth has appeared in Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Oz, Trinity, Cosby, and Mad About You.
Sudduth is also a singer-songwriter. Minus Ted's acoustic-rock band has released three albums: Hope and Loss (1994), Really Really (1999), and Hope and Grief (2004). On iTunes, the last two episodes are available. Ted Kennedy, the fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, was a member of Rumble in the Redroom comedy troupe (1996–99) and has written several popular audio books, including one short story in the acclaimed Stephen King collection, Just After Sunset and Peter Canellos' biography of Ted Kennedy, including one in the fall and rise of Ted Kennedy, both for Simon & Schuster.
Sudduth played Captain George Brackett in the Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific at Lincoln Center in 2008. Sudduth completed the year playing in Prayer for My Enemy, Craig Lucas's directorial debut. It was the second time Sudduth worked with director Bartlett Sher, who had also directed South Pacific. Victoria Clark, Michele Pawk, and Jonathan Groff appeared in the off-Broadway theater Playwright's Horizons from November 14 to December 21, as well as Jonathan Groff. Sudduth played a recovering alcoholic struggling with his son's return from the Iraq War.
Sudduth officially began his career as a director during his time on Third Watch by directing one episode in each of the series's last three years. Sudduth has produced episodes of ER, Criminal Minds, Women's Murder Club, CSI: Cyber, and several episodes of CSI: New York since. In 2012, he appeared on the short-lived police drama NYC 22 as NYPD Detective Tommy Luster.