Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, and novelist. He portrays Gil Eavis, a left-wing United States senator, on Succession.
Life & career[]
Bogosian was born on April 24, 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent his early childhood in Watertown, home to a large Armenian-American community along with his grandparents, who survived the Armenian genocide. His family then moved to Woburn when Bogosian was 7 years old. He became interested in theatre at his high school in Woburn. He then attended the University of Chicago before graduating from Oberlin College, a private liberal arts school.[1]
Bogosian has written numerous original plays, some of which have been adapted into films as well. Between 1980 and 2000, he performed six off-Broadway solos, all of which written by himself, garnering him three Obie Awards. He made his television and film debuts in 1983 and 1985, respectively.
Trivia[]
- Bogosian is the writer of "subUrbia," a play based on his childhood spend in Woburn.[2] In 2006, the play was present edwith Bogosian's future Sucession co-star, Kieran Culkin, as the lead.
Filmography[]
Film[]
| Yea | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Born in Flames | CBS Technician | |
| 1984 | Special Effects | Christopher Neville | |
| 1985 | The Stuff | Supermarket Clerk | |
| 1988 | Talk Radio | Barry Champlain | |
| 1989 | Suffering Bastards | Mr. Leech | |
| 1991 | Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll | Himself | |
| 1995 | Arabian Knight | Phido the Vulture (voice) | |
| Dolores Claiborne | Peter | ||
| Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | Travis Dane | ||
| 1996 | The Substance of Fire | Gene Byck | |
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | Ranger at Old Faithful / White House Press Secretary / Lieutenant at Strategic Air Command (voice | ||
| 1997 | Office Killer | Peter Douglas | Uncredited |
| Deconstructing Harry | Burt | ||
| 1998 | Safe Men | Edward Templeton, Sr. (voice) | |
| 2000 | Gossip | Simon | |
| 2001 | In The Weeds | Simon | |
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down | Mr. Nice Guy | Stars Succession co-star Kieran Culkin |
| Ararat | Rouben | ||
| 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | Alan Caulfield | |
| Wonderland | Eddie Nash | ||
| 2004 | King of the Corner | Rabbi Evelyn Fink | |
| Blade: Trinity | Bentley Tittle | ||
| 2005 | Heights | Henry | |
| 2008 | Cadillac Records | Alan Freed | |
| 2010 | Don't Go in the Woods | Producer | |
| 2014 | Listen Up Philip | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2017 | Rebel in the Rye | Harold Ross | |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems | Arno | |
| 2021 | Make Me Famous | Himself | |
| TBA | Reptile | TBA | Upcoming film |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Miami Vice | Zeke | 1 episode |
| Tales from the Darkside | Junkie | 1 episode | |
| The Twilight Zone | Jackie Thompson | 1 episode | |
| 1986 | Reading Rainbow | Conan the Librarian (voice) | 1 episode |
| Crime Story | Dee | 2 episodes | |
| 1987 | Alive from Off Center | Various Characters | 2 episodes |
| 1988 | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Lt. Barney Greenwald | Television film |
| 1990 | Last Flight Out | Larry Rose | Television film |
| 1992â1993 | Law & Order | Gary Lowenthal | 2 episodes |
| 1993 | The Larry Sanders Show | Stan Paxton | 1 episode |
| 1994 | Witch Hunt | Senator Larson Crockett | Television film |
| 1996â1997 | High Incident | Creator and executive producer | |
| 1998 | A Bright Shining Lie | Doug Elders | Television film |
| 1999 | Beggars and Choosers | Eric Bogosian | 1 episode |
| 2000 | Welcome to New York | Robby | 1 episode |
| 2001 | Third Watch | Lieutenant Lewis | 1 episode |
| Blonde | Otto Ose | Television miniseries | |
| Shot in the Heart | Larry Schiller | Television film | |
| 2003 | Scrubs | Dr. Gross | 1 episode |
| 2006 | Love Monkey | Phil Leshing | 5 episodes |
| 2006â2010 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Captain Danny Ross | 61 Episodes |
| 2014 | The Good Wife | Nelson Dubeck | 3 episodes |
| 2015 | Elementary | Collin Eisely | 1 episode |
| 2016â2017 | The Get Down | Roy Asheton | 7 episodes |
| 2017â2021 | Billions | Lawrence Boyd | 11 episodes |
| 2018â2019 | Succession | Gil Eavis | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Instinct | Harry Kassabian | 1 episode |
| 2022âpresent | Interview with the Vampire | Daniel Molloy | 7 episodes |
Writing credits[]
- Men in Dark Times
- Scenes from the New World
- Sheer Heaven (1980)
- Men Inside (1981)
- The New World (1981)
- FunHouse (1983)
- Drinking in America (1986) (Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show)
- Talk Radio (1987) (also film version in 1988)
- Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1990)
- Notes from the Underground (1993)
- Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead (1994)
- subUrbia (1994) (also film version in 1996)
- Griller (1998)
- Mall (2000)
- Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2000)
- Humpty Dumpty (2004)
- Non-profit Benefit
- Red Angel
- Wasted Beauty (2005)
- 1+1 (2008)
- Perforated Heart (2009)
- Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide (2015)