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Christian Clemenson
Highest Rated: 98% Broadcast News (1987)
Lowest Rated: 5% Almost Heroes (1998)
Birthday: Mar 17, 1958
Birthplace: Humboldt, Iowa, USA
A consummate actor with a gift for playing intelligent, occasionally reserved men in positions of authority, Christian Clemenson was an Emmy-winning performer whose work in features like "United 93" (2006) and television series like "Boston Legal" (ABC, 2004-08) made him among the busiest character actors in the 1990s and 2000s. He earned his training at Harvard and Yale before heading West to try his hand at screen acting; a lengthy career in supporting roles preceded his breakthrough with "Boston Legal," on which his turn as the psychologically troubled lawyer Jerry "Hands" Esperson earned him critical acclaim and an Emmy Award in 2006. Further accolades from his performance on the series signaled that Clemenson was on the cusp of making the leap from solid supporting to leading man, promising that the best was yet to come.
Photos
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77% |
|
Malignant | Dr. Victor Fields (Character) | $13.4M | 2021 |
| 80% |
|
No Man of God | Dobson (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Not Safe for Work | Alan Z. Emmerich (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ashley's Ashes | Father Tim (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 90% |
|
United 93 | Thomas E. Burnett Jr. (Character) | $31.5M | 2006 |
| 13% |
|
Lost & Found | Ray (Character) | $6.5M | 1999 |
| 5% |
|
Almost Heroes | Father Girard (Character) | $6.1M | 1998 |
| 96% |
|
Apollo 13 | Dr. Chuck (Character) | $173.8M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Socrates Poole (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 67% |
|
Hero | Conklin (Character) | $18.2M | 1992 |
| 65% |
|
Bad Influence | Pismo Boll (Character) | $11.3M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daddy's Boys | Otis (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 98% |
|
Broadcast News | Bobby (Character) | $49.2M | 1987 |
| 44% |
|
Legal Eagles | Clerk (Character) | $47.2M | 1986 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Good Doctor | Dr. Silas Chambers (Guest Star) | 2021 |
| 78% | 82% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | ADA Forreston Graham (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | 9-1-1 | Franklin (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| 81% | 92% | TURN: Washington's Spies | Martin DeYoung (Guest Star) | 2014-2017 |
| 92% | 79% | Colony | Dan Bennett (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 84% | 90% | American Crime Story | Bill Hodgman (Character) | 2016 |
| 84% | 85% | Masters of Sex | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 57% | 78% | Californication | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Mike & Molly | Mr. O'Donnell (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 82% | 82% | Shameless | Christopher Collier (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | CSI: Miami | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009-2012 |
| 84% | 73% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | The Mentalist | Dr. Roy Carmen (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | NCIS | Perry Sterling (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Dr. Kurtag (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 86% | 91% | Boston Legal |
Jerry Espenson (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2005-2008 |
| 92% | 78% | Veronica Mars | Abel Koontz (Guest Star) | 2004-2005 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Numb3ers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Method & Red | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Timothy Bosham (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| 81% | 95% | The West Wing | Evan Woodkirk (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The District | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 8% | No Score Yet | Ladies Man | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 62% | No Score Yet | Bette | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 85% | 92% | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Balthazar (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| 19% | No Score Yet | Vengeance Unlimited | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad About You | Jared (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| 91% | 60% | Murder One | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cybill | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 86% | 86% | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 92% | 100% | The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Socrates Poole (Character) | 1993-1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Civil Wars | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Designing Women | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 21 Jump Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Family Ties | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Beauty and the Beast | Jonathan Gould (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mary | Tim Flowers (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | The Golden Girls | Salesman (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fame | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |