Tuc Watkins Biography

Charles Curtis "Tuc" Watkins III (born September 2, 1966) is an American actor known for his roles as David Vickers on One Life to Live, and Bob Hunter on Desperate Housewives.

Personal life

Watkins was born in Kansas City, Kansas of Welsh descent to Charles Curtis Watkins II, a salesman, and a photographer mother. He attended Indiana University. He has a younger sister Courtney born in 1968.

Watkins came out as gay on April 26, 2013 in an interview on Marie with Marie Osmond.

In December 2012, Watkins had twins, Catchen (Catch) and Curtis, via a surrogate named Melissa.

Career

Watkins started his career with guest appearances on various television series including Sisters (three episodes from 1991 to 1992), Baywatch ("Game of Chance", 1992), and Melrose Place ("Single White Sister", 1993). He portrayed con-man David Vickers on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 1994 to 1996, next joining the soap opera General Hospital in the recurring role of Dr. Pierce Dorman from 1996 to 1997. Watkins went on to star as Malcolm Laffley on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers for its two-season run from 1999 to 2001. In 1999, he made his film debut in "I Think I Do", a small budget independent screwball romantic comedy, playing Sterling Scott, the soap opera hunk boyfriend of Bob, played by Alexis Arquette. He followed this with his first appearance in a big studio production, The Mummy as the near-sighted glasses-wearing tomb raider Burns, later guest-starring on television series such as NYPD Blue ("The Irvin Files", 2000), Six Feet Under ("Out, Out, Brief Candle", 2002), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ("Cats in the Cradle...", 2002). After brief appearances in 2001 and 2002, Watkins rejoined the cast of One Life to Live full-time from 2003 through 2006, with several short term returns to the show in 2007, 2008, and 2009, returning again on a regular basis beginning in June 2010. Soap Opera Digest named Watkins's David their "Most Entertaining Male Character" of 2008, noting that "Time and time again, David's harebrained schemes and Tuc Watkins's side-splitting performances provide amusement we're always sorry to see end."

On October 21, 2007, Watkins made his first appearance on ABC's prime time series Desperate Housewives as Bob Hunter, a new resident of Wisteria Lane who is a gay lawyer with a husband. On November 4, 2007 Watkins guest-starred on the Cold Case season 5 episode "World's End". In July 2009, a Funny or Die video called The Sentimentalist starring Watkins was ranked #5 on Entertainment Weekly "The Must List", which notes the magazine's ten weekly choices among film, television, DVDs, books, music, and online entertainment for "The Top 10 Things We Love This Week".

Tuc Watkins joined the cast of Desperate Housewives as a series regular.

Filmography

• 1990: Get a Life as Sapphire (1 episode)
• 1990: Growing Pains as Trainer (1 episode)
• 1991: Harry and the Hendersons as Marcel (1 episode)
• 1991 - 1992: Sisters as Brad (3 episodes)
• 1992: Sibs as Unknown (1 episode)
• 1992: Baywatch as Gary (1 episode)
• 1992: Santa Barbara Reggie (1 episode)
• 1992: Little Sister as Ted Armstrong (uncredited)
• 1992: The Edge as Unknown (1 episode)
• 1993: Melrose Place as Tom Brooks (1 episode)
• 1993: High Tide as Shane Wilson (2 episodes)
• 1994 - 1996: One Life to Live as David Vickers (Role since: 1994 - 1996, October 2001, January 2002, August 2003 - November 2006, March 6, 2007, May - July 26, 2007, November 2007, May 7 - August 6, 2008, December 26, 2008 - March 2, 2009, April 7, 2009, April 22"27, 2009, August 10, 2009, June 3, 2010"January 12, 2012, April 29, 2013 " present)
• 1996 - 1997: General Hospital as Pierce Dorman #2 (unknown episodes)
• 1997: I Think I Do as Sterling Scott
• 1997: Silk Stalkings as Special Agent Sidley (1 episode)
• 1997 - 1998: C-16: FBI as Jimmy Rooney (3 episodes)
• 1998: The Thin Pink Line as Ted
• 1999: Can't Stop Dancing as Reuben Clairmont
• 1999: The Mummy as Mr. Burns
• 1999 - 2001: Beggars and Choosers as Malcolm Laffley (37 episodes)
• 2000: Miracle in Lane 2 as God / Bobby Wade
• 2000: NYPD Blue as Derrick (1 episode)
• 2001: Family Law as Sean Santoro (1 episode)
• 2002: Infested as Carl
• 2002: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Marcus Remmick (1 episode)
• 2002: Six Feet Under as Trevor (1 episode)
• 2005: All My Children as David Vickers (2 episodes)
• 2006: The Good Shepherd as Sound Technical Officer
• 2007: Cold Case as Felton Metz '38 (1 episode)
• 2006: 13 Graves as Lawrence
• 2007: The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman as Josh (1 episode)
• 2007 - 2012: Desperate Housewives as Bob Hunter (Role since: Season 4 - episode 4)
• 2008: Point View Terrace as Freddy Hayes
• 2009: Moon Lake Casino as Skipper
• 2012: Parks and Recreation as Pistol Pete
• 2012: Franklin & Bash as Lance
• 2012: Baby Daddy as Hank
• 2012: Where the Bears Are as Dick Calloway (web series)