Charles Parnell
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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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | NRO (Character) | - | 2025 |
85% |
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The Killer | The Lawyer - Hodges (Character) | - | 2023 |
96% |
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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% |
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Top Gun: Maverick | Adm. Solomon "Warlock" Bates (Character) | $718.5M | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swim | Coach Moss (Character) | - | 2017 |
95% |
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Pariah | Arthur (Character) | $758.1K | 2011 |
56% |
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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 |