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Charles Parnell

Highest Rated: 96% Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Lowest Rated: 56% Mind the Gap (2004)

Birthday: Mar 18, 1975

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

A veteran of both television and the national stage, Charles Parnell's rugged frame and resonant voice were put to excellent use on series like the post-apocalyptic drama "The Last Ship" (TNT, 2014- ).Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood, Parnell began appearing on screen in 1999, logging minor roles as men of authority - police officers, ministers and the like - on series like "Sex and the City" (HBO, 1999-2004) and "Third Watch" (NBC, 1999-2005). In 2005, he began a three-year stint as police chief Derek Frye on "All My Children" (ABC/The Online Network, 1970-2013) while continuing his work as a guest actor and also employing his stage-trained voice in animated series like "The Venture Brothers" (Adult Swim, 2003- ), which cast him as Jefferson Twilight, a vampire hunter with the verbal ire of Samuel L. Jackson. Parnell also earned excellent notices and an Image Award nomination as a police detective contending with his daughter's maturity in the indie feature "Pariah" (2011), but television remained his most consistent showcase, thanks to multiple appearances on top-rated series like "CSI: Miami" (CBS, 2002-2012) and narration for reality programs like "North Woods Law" (Discovery Channel, 2012- ). In 2014, he joined the cast of the Michael Bay-produced action/science fiction series "The Last Ship." Parnell played Chief Petty Officer Russell Jeter, the senior enlisted sailor and unofficial chaplain for a Naval vessel and its crew, which searched for a cure for a global pandemic.

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Highest rated movies

96% 99% Top Gun: Maverick Watchlist 96% 94% Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Watchlist
95% 82% Pariah
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92% The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
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85% 61% The Killer Watchlist
56% 89% Mind the Gap
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning NRO (Character) - 2025
85% 61% The Killer The Lawyer - Hodges (Character) - 2023
96% 94% Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One NRO (Character) $172.0M 2023
92% No Score Yet The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart Jefferson Twiligh (Voice) - 2023
96% 99% Top Gun: Maverick Adm. Solomon "Warlock" Bates (Character) $718.5M 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Swim Coach Moss (Character) - 2017
95% 82% Pariah Arthur (Character) $758.1K 2011
56% 89% Mind the Gap John McCabe (Character) $9.5K 2004

TV

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33% 21% Extended Family Governor Devon Monohan (Guest Star) 2024
80% 83% Grand Crew Franklin (Guest Star) 2022-2023
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Ezra Nichols (Guest Star) 2008 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet North Woods Law Narrator 2012-2021
83% 69% The Last Ship Russell Jeter (Character) 2014-2018
73% 77% Constantine Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
88% 92% Longmire Agent Stanley (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heavy Metal Task Force Host 2009 2012
No Score Yet 90% The Mentalist Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet 63% NCIS: Los Angeles Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
90% 80% Fringe Dr. James Falcon (Guest Star) 2011
13% No Score Yet The Forgotten Unknown (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet 65% CSI: Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2008-2009
No Score Yet 84% NCIS Marine Col. Dick Jestern (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet 86% Lie to Me Major Harris (Guest Star) 2009
90% 83% Bones Captain Blake (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet 75% Without a Trace Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
20% No Score Yet Hack Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
70% 80% Sex and the City Salesman (Guest Star) 1999 2002