Xander Berkeley Biography

Alexander "Xander" Harper Berkeley (born December 16, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles of George Mason on the political thriller series 24, Percy Rose on the action thriller series Nikita and Sheriff Thomas McAllister on the crime drama The Mentalist.

Early life and education

Berkeley was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 16, 1955, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey. He attended Hampshire College and worked in the theaters at the five college system which Hampshire was a part of, including Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts. Berkeley worked in the Regional and Repertory Theaters in addition to Off Broadway while living in New York. A casting agent saw Berkeley in a play written by Reynolds Price called Early Dark, and encouraged him to move to Hollywood.

Career

Berkeley began playing roles in 1981, with early appearances in M*A*S*H, Cagney & Lacey, Remington Steele, Miami Vice, Moonlighting and The A-Team. Although not becoming a household name, Berkeley's face was increasingly recognizable into the 1990s. His later television guest roles included The X-Files, CSI, ER and Law & Order.

On the big screen, Berkeley has appeared in North Country, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mommie Dearest, Phoenix, Kick-Ass, A Few Good Men, The Rookie, Candyman, Apollo 13, Leaving Las Vegas, Gattaca, The Rock (uncredited), Air Force One, Sid and Nancy, Spawn, Amistad, Shanghai Noon, Barb Wire and Timecode. Berkeley has the distinction of appearing in both the made-for-television film L.A. Takedown in 1989 and its 1995 critically acclaimed theatrical remake Heat, both directed by Michael Mann. Several of his earlier roles were in films by director Alex Cox.

In 2001, Berkeley became a recurring guest star and later on as a series regular on 24 in the role of George Mason, the head of the Counter Terrorist Unit. He portrayed the mysterious John Smith on the CBS drama Jericho.

In 2010, he received one of his best known roles - that of Percy Rose in the CW action-thriller series Nikita. He portrayed the character as a series regular in the show's first two seasons as well as being the series' de facto main antagonist of its first two seasons. Berkeley was Sheriff Thomas "Red John" McAllister on The Mentalist.

Berkeley portrays Gregory on on AMC's The Walking Dead, originally in a guest role in season 6, but was promoted as a series regular for season 7.

Voice Work

Berkeley has provided voices for animated series such as Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Teen Titans and Gargoyles. He voiced Quentin Beck/Mysterio in The Spectacular Spider-Man, Captain Atom in the animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and Dr. Kirk Langstrom in Son of Batman.

Awards

In 2013, Berkeley won the Streamy Award "Best Male Performance, Drama" for his starring role in the acclaimed webseries, The Booth at the End.

Personal life

Berkeley is a painter and a sculptor, as well as a make-up artist. Berkeley met Sarah Clarke on the set of 24 in 2001, and married her the following year. Berkeley and Clarke live with their two daughters Olwyn Harper (born in 2006) and Rowan Amara (born in 2010) in Maine, previously in Los Angeles, California, where he works as a painter and sculptor when he is not acting.

Filmography

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	M*A*S*H	Marine	Episode: "Give 'Em Hell, Hawkeye"
1981	Open All Night	Medfly	Episode: "Centerfold"
1982	The Incredible Hulk	Tom	Episode: "A Minor Problem"
1982	McClain's Law	Peter	Episode: "To Save the Queen"
1982	Hart to Hart	Christopher Hawks	Episode: "Harts on Their Toes"
1982	Tales of the Gold Monkey	Eric Fromby	Episode: "Escape from Death Island"
1983	Remington Steele	Charlie	Episode: "Steele Crazy After All These Years"
1983	The Renegades	Gillette	Episode: "The Big Time"
1983	Cagney & Lacey	Maurice	Episode: "The Gang's All Here"
1984	Riptide	Taxi Driver	Episode: "The Hardcase"
1984	Falcon Crest	Buzz Whitehead	Episode: "Strangers"
1984	V	Isaac Henley	Episode: "Breakout"
1983-84	The A-Team	Sergeant Wilson/Baker	Episodes: "The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing" & "Showdown!"
1986	The Twilight Zone	Dave the Angry Comic	Episode: "Take My Life...Please!"
1986	Moonlighting	Scalper	Episode: "Symphony in Knocked Flat"
1988	J.J. Starbuck	Robert 'Bobby' Tinch	Episode: "Rag Doll"
1988	CBS Summer Playhouse	Dr. Noah Fredericks	Episode: "Dr. Paradise"
1987-89	Miami Vice	Bailey/Tommy Lowell	Episodes: "Like a Hurricane" & "Victims of Circumstance"
1990	Father Dowling Mysteries	Carl Maxwell	Episode: "The Exotic Dancer Mystery"
1990	Wiseguy	Ray Spiotta	Episode: "Romp"
1990	Grand	Jeffrey	Episode: "The Chickens Come Home to Roost"
1991	Super Force	Dr. Landru	Episodes: "Come Under the Way: Part 2" & "There's a Light"
1993	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Brett Bones	Episode: "Riverboat"
1993	The X-Files	Dr. Hodge	Episode: "Ice"
1994	Good Advice (TV series)	Bernard	Episode: "A Chance of Showers"
1994	New York Undercover	Dr. Carl Weschler	Episode: "Blondes Have More Fun"
1995	Partners	Christophe Nnngaarzh	Episode: "Why Are the Blumenthals Living in My House?"
1995	Pointman	J.W. Mainwaring	Episode: "'bout Money"
1996	Nash Bridges	Neil Wojak	Episode: "Genesis"
1996	The Outer Limits	Terry McCammon	Episode: "Falling Star"
1997	High Incident	Sergeant Hackworth	Episode: "No Money Down"
1997	Women: Stories of Passion	Jimbo	Episode: "Reading for Pleasure"
1997	Players	Marcus Flint	Episode: "Con Law"
1998	Three	Warden	Episode: "Breakout"
1998	ER	Detective Wilson	Episode: "Good Luck, Ruth Johnson"
2001	Wolf Lake	Carl	Unaired Pilot
2001	Going to California	Clay Shelton	Episode: "Lily of the Field"
2002	The Court	Keith Nolan	3 episodes
2001-03	24	George Mason	27 episodes
2003	The Twilight Zone	Harry Kellogg	Episode: "The Pharaoh's Curse"
2003	Karen Sisco	Alvin Simmons	Episode: "The One That Got Away"
2003-04	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Sheriff Rory Atwater	5 episodes
2005	Law & Order	Clay Pollack	Episode: "Fluency"
2006	Women in Law	Campbell Knox	Episode: "Pilot"
2006	The West Wing	Franklin Hollis	Episode: "Institutional Memory"
2007	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	George Pagolis	Episode: "Albatross"
2007	Standoff	Paul Fisk	Episode: "No Strings"
2007	Bones	Dr. Bankroft	Episode: "Intern in the Incinerator"
2008	Boston Legal	A.D.A. Rex Swarthmore	Episode: "Mad About You"
2008	Jericho	John Smith	3 episodes
2008	Wainy Days	Cornelius	Episode: "Rebecca"
2008	Criminal Minds	Det. Hyde	Episode: "Memoriam"
2009	Medium	Mitchell Slocombe	Episode: "A Person of Interest"
2009	The Closer	Detective Curt Landry	Episode: "Waivers of Extradition"
2010	Three Rivers	'Sarge' Harold Estes	Episode: "Status 1A"
2010-12	Nikita	Percy	Main role
2010-12	The Booth at the End	The Man	10 episodes
2013	Being Human	Liam McLean	8 episodes
2013	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Theodore Dent	Episode: "The Great Train Stoppery"
2008-2013	The Mentalist	Sheriff Thomas McAllister	5 episodes
2014	Justified	Charles Monroe	Episodes: "The Kids Aren't All Right" & "Good Intentions"
2015	12 Monkeys (TV series)	Col. Jonathan Foster	Episodes: "Yesterday" & "Tomorrow"
2014-15	Salem	Magistrate Hale	14 episodes
2015	Aquarius	Police Commissioner	Episode: "Old Ego Is a Too Much Thing"
2015	Zoo	Ronnie 'Dogstick' Brannigan	4 episodes
2013-15	Longmire	Jeremiah Rains	Episodes: "Death Came in Like Thunder" & "Hector Lives"
2015	Couch Surfing USA	Alistar	Unaired series
2016-present	The Walking Dead	Gregory	Guest (Season 6) Also Starring (Season 7)

Voice acting

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995-96	Gargoyles	Coldsteel/Iago	Episodes: "Legion" & "Possession"
1996	Mighty Ducks	Phineas T. Viper	Episode: "Beak to the Future"
1996	The Tick	Octopaganini	Episode: "Tick vs. Europe"
1997	Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man	Hans	Episode: "Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'"
1997	Spawn	Mike Stewart/Priest	(unknown episodes)
1997	Johnny Bravo	Maitre D'/Movie Star/Melvin	Episode: "Substitute Teacher/A Wolf in Chick's Clothing/Intensive Care"
1997	Superman	Sgt . Corey Mills	Episode: "Prototype"
1996-97	Life with Louie	Unknown voice	Episode: "Caddy on a Hot Tin Roof" & "Louie's Harrowing Halloween"
1995-97	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Various voices	12 episodes
1997	Extreme Ghostbusters	Unknown voice	Episodes: "Bird of Prey" & "In Your Dreams"
1999	The Wild Thornberrys	Barking Deer #2/Stoat	Episodes: "Born to Be Wild" & "Show Me the Bunny"
2001	Batman Beyond	Dr. Chides	Episodes: "The Curse of the Kobra: Part 1" & "The Curse of the Kobra: Part 2"
2001	Justice League	General Brak/Dignitary/Soldier	Episodes: "The Enemy Below" & "The Enemy Below: Part II"
2003	Freelancer	Dexter Hovis	Video game
2003	Spider-Man	Mayor	Episode: "Spider-Man Dis-Abled"
2004-05	Teen Titans	Warp/Mento/General Immortus	3 episodes
2007	The Batman	Paul	Episode: "Rumors"
2009	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Sinestro	Episode: "The Eyes of Despero!"
2008-09	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Mysterio	4 episodes
2010	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Sinestro	Video game
2010	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Warden Morgg/Trukk	Episode: "...Nor Iron Bars a Cage"
2014	Beware the Batman	Manhunter/Paul Kirk	Episode: "Unique"

Film

Year	Title	Role
1981	Mommie Dearest	Christopher Crawford (adult)
1982	Tag: The Assassination Game	Connally
1985	Volunteers	Kent Sutcliffe
1986	Sid and Nancy	Bowery Snax
1987	Omega Syndrome
	Straight to Hell	Preacher McMahon
	The Verne Miller Story	Cardogan
	Walker	Byron Cole
1988	The Lawless Land	Ez Andy
	Tapeheads	Ricky Fell
	Deadly Dreams	Jack Torme
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Lloyd
1990	The Gumshoe Kid	Monty Griswold
	Internal Affairs	Rudy Mohr
	The Assassin	John Patrick Earl
	The Last of the Finest	Fast Eddie
	The Guardian	Detective
	Short Time	Carl Stark
	The Grifters	Lt. Pierson
	The Rookie	Blackwell
1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Todd Voight
	Billy Bathgate	Harvey Preston
	For the Boys	Roberts, Vietnam
1992	The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag	Mr. Marchat
	Candyman	Trevor Lyle
	A Few Good Men	Capt. Whitaker
1993	Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman	Second Man
1994	Caroline at Midnight	Joey Szabo
1995	The Fifteen Minute Hamlet	Shakespeare
	Safe	Greg White
	Apollo 13	Henry Hurt
	Leaving Las Vegas	Cynical Cabbie
	Heat	Ralph
1996	Poison Ivy II: Lily	Donald Falk
	A Family Thing	Sunburned man
	Barb Wire	Alexander Willis
	Apollo 11	Buzz Aldrin
	The Rock	Lonner (uncredited)
	Bulletproof	Gentry
	Driven	J.D. Johnson
	Persons Unknown	Tosh
1997	The Killing Jar	Danny 'Figaretto' Evans
	Air Force One	Secret Service Agent Gibbs
	One Night Stand	Charlie's Friend
	Gattaca	Dr. Lamar
	Amistad	Hammond
	Breast Men	Male Interviewer
1998	The Truth About Juliet	George
	Phoenix	Lt. Clyde Webber
1999	Universal Soldier: The Return	Dr. Dylan Cotner
	The Cherry Orchard	Yepihodov
2000	Timecode	Evan Wantz
	Shanghai Noon	Nathan Van Cleef
2001	Storytelling	Mr. DeMarco ('Non-fiction')
	China: The Panda Adventure	Dakar Johnston
	The Man from Elysian Fields	Virgil Koster
2003	The Third Date	Tommy Tulip
	The Stranger	Charly
	Quicksand	Joey Patterson
2004	Below the Belt	Hanrahan
	In Enemy Hands	Admiral Kentz (as Xander Berkley)
	The Last Full Measure
2005	Drop Dead Sexy	Harkness
	Deepwater	Gus
	Standing Still	Jonathan
	North Country	Arlen Pavich
2006	The Garage	Doc Ruppert
	Champions	Uncle Doug
	Seraphim Falls	Railroad Foreman
2007	Fracture	Judge Moran
2008	Cook County	Sonny
	Taken	Stuart St. John
	The Toe Tactic	Dad
2009	Sparks	Sid Harris
	Year One	The King
	The Consultants	George
	Repo Chick	Aldrich De La Chasse
	Superman/Batman: Public Enemies	Captain Atom
	Path Lights	Father
2010	Kick-Ass	Detective Vic Gigante
	Bedrooms	Harry
	Luster	Detective Carter
	Below the Beltway	McMahon
2011	Girl Walks into a Bar	Moe
	Seeking Justice	Lieutenant Durgan
2014	Son of Batman	Kirk Langstrom (voice)
	Transcendence	Dr. Thomas Casey
	Small Time	Chick
2015	Moments of Clarity	Artemis
2016	Allegiant	Phillip

TV movies

Year	Title	Role
1981	Fire on the Mountain	Unknown role
1989	L.A. Takedown	Waingro
1991	Dillinger	Copeland
1991	Not of This World	Bruce MacNamara
1991	Murder in High Places	Wayne
1992	A Private Matter	Pete Zenner
1992	Deadly Matrimony	Kozolowski
1993	It's Nothing Personal	James Blakemore
1993	Donato and Daughter	Russ Loring
1993	Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman	Second Man
1994	Roswell	Sherman Carson
1996	A Kidnapping in the Family	Curtis Harrison
1996	Within the Rock	Ryan
1996	If These Walls Could Talk	John Barrows
1996	For Hope	Date #4
1996	Apollo 11	Buzz Aldrin
1996	I'd Lie for You and That's the Truth	Bad guy
1997	Breast Men	Male Interviewer
1998	Winchell	Gavreau
1999	NetForce	Bo Tyler
2006	Magma: Volcanic Disaster	Peter Shepherd
2007	Alibi	Lt. Adam Molnar
2009	Inside the Box	Fred O'Brien
2010	Night and Day	Jay Graham
2010	Day One	Clarke
2011	Five	Peter Knowles
2011	Inside	Highway man
2012	Entanglement	Peter Keller
2014	Christmas Eve, 1914	Charles Dunne