Tim Guinee Biography
Tim Guinee is an Award-winning actor best known for starring in Stargate SG-1, Elvis (1997-2007), Revolution (2012), and Hell on Wheels (2011-2016). He rose to fame after starring in the TV Series The Staircase (2022).
Tim Guinee Career
Guinee was born in California’s Los Angeles and grew up in Illinois and Texas. He finished Houston High School for Performing Arts when he was a teen. After that, he went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he also got an honors doctorate. James Clavell’s Tai Pan was his first role in a feature film, and it came out three months after he graduated from college.
It was the first Western movie made in mainland China. A Death of a Buick at MTC, Horton Foote’s The Prisoner’s Song and The One Armed Man at the Ensemble Studio, Displaced Persons at the Workhouse, Andy & Claire at the Westbank (with John Spencer), and Human Error at the Atlantic are some of Tim’s theater credits. SubUrbia by Eric Bogosian was at Lincoln Center, Twelfth Night and Richard II (directed by Joe Papp) were at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and The Death of A Buick was at MTC.
In regional theater, he has played Alan Strang in Equus, Krapp in Krapps Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard, Ben in The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, Malcolm in Macbeth, Sky in Guys and Dolls, and many more. Tim also put together shows for The Edge Theater, which is run by Peter Hedge. He has worked in film and TV all over the world, in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, on both big studio movies and small independent ones. He has often worked with the same directors more than once.
Tim worked with director Jon Favreau on Iron Man I and II, as well as NBC’s Revolution. He worked on the movies The Doors, Heaven and Earth, and Rachid Bouchareb’s Two Men in Town and Just Like a Woman. They worked together to make both “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” and “Personal Velocity.” The films Sweet Land (Ali Selim) (Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature), Once Around (Lasse Hallstrom), Courage Under Fire (Ed Zwick), Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman), Vampires (John Carpenter), Ash (Andrew Huculiak), How to Make an American Quilt (Jocelyn Moorhouse), Promised Land (Gus Van Sant), Ladder 49 (Jay Russell), and 99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani).
He is famous for his roles in HBO’s “The Staircase,” Netflix’s “Inventing Anna,” and regular roles on shows like “Homeland” on Showtime and “Hell on Wheels” on AMC. On shows like “The Good Wife” and “Elementary,” he has played big roles that kept coming back. And has been in TV movies like The Road From Coorain (Australian Broadcasting Company), Elvis, Comics (Channel 4), and Alex Hailey’s Queen. She has also been in many TV shows as a guest star, such as The Punisher, Westwing, The Affair, Nurse Jackie, Weeds, 24, and more. He has also done voice work for cartoon shows like Beavis and Butthead do America and Movie Dick.
His first film as a director was the short Horton Foote’s One Armed Man, which starred Charles Haid, John Magaro, and Terry Kinney and had cameos by wirewalker Philippe Petit and musician Mike Merenda. It was created by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Hallie Foote. The movie was shown at more than 50 film festivals around the world and won 24 awards (and was nominated for 7 more). Tim has helped fight fires for free for more than twenty years. He learned to be a wire walker from the great Philippe Petit. He has also gone white-water rafting on some of the world’s most beautiful and remote rivers, such as the Zambezi (Zambia and Zimbabwe), the Tambopata (Peru and Bolivia), and the River Jordan (Israel).
Tim is a strong supporter of the environment and is a part of the Climate Reality Project. He also started The Climate Actors and is on the board of Green Product Placement and the Leadership Council of Riverkeeper. For his work on the climate problem, former Vice President Al Gore gave him the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award, which was an honor. Tim has put together events like Unheard Voices, a benefit at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to help Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) do their job during the Rwandan genocide. Many people think that the benefit was the biggest poem event in the US before the Gulf War.
Recently, he put together a series of benefits with Tom and Michael D’Angora to help save well-known New York venues that were having trouble making ends meet after COVID-19. These included The Westbank Cafe, Birdland, the York Theater Company, and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s LAByrinth Theater Company. His wife is the author Daisy Foote, and they live in a home from the 1840s with their dogs Finn and Tilly and a lot of honeybees.
Tim Guinee Age
Guinee was born on November 18, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is 61 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 18th of November every year.
Tim Guinee Height and Weight
Guinee stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall (1.77m) and weighs 75 kgs (165 lbs).
Tim Guinee Family
Guinee was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Illinois and Texas. William Fenton Guinee was Tim’s grandfather on his dad’s side. William was the son of Timothy Cornelius Guinee and Anna Josephine Reilly and William was born in Tennessee. Timothy, Tim’s great-grandfather, was Irish and he was the son of Timothy Guinee and Ellen Alice Griffin. Anna’s parents were Irish and their names were James Tarry Reilly and Mary Fenton.
Tim’s grandma on his dad’s side was Laura Mai Andrews, who was the daughter of Ebin Reese Andrews and Margaret Mai Arnett and Tennessee is where Tim’s grandmother was born. Tim’s great father’s parents were; William Robert Andrews and Sallie Leven Andrews and her great-grandmother’s parents were Fred Arnett and Alice A. Sharp. Tim’s grandfather on his mom’s side was James Brockman Sanders, who was the son of William Josiah Sanders and Fannie Adams. Tim’s great-grandfather’s parents were Drury Josiah Sanders and Francis Jane Stockard.
Frances Gertrude Nelson was Tim’s maternal grandmother and she was the daughter of William Hancock Nelson and Gertrude Davis. Tim’s great-grandfather’s parents were John Lewis Nelson and Harriet Ann Phelps. Tim’s great-grandmother’s parents were William G. Davis and Fannie Laws.
Tim Guinee Wife
Guinee is married to Daisy Foote. The two met While Guinee was working on the 1996 movie (Hallmark Hall of Fame: Lily Dale). Daisy is the daughter of the well-known Horton Foote, a screenwriter who has won several awards including the Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize–winner.
Tim Guinee Net Worth
Guinee has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through his career as an actress.
Tim Guinee Salary
Guinee earns a salary of about $60,000-$100,000.
Tim Guinee The Staircase
Guinee plays the role of Bill Peterson in the TV Series The Staircase. Bill Peterson is a lawyer by profession and is Michael Petrson’s younger brother. Bill’s job is to tell Michael’s family about the fact that he is also gay. Even though the family doesn’t mind, Caitlin starts to question Michael when she finds out he lied to them. Michael is freed on bail, and Rudolf gets a group of crime scene investigators and evidence experts together to show that Michael is not guilty. The team thinks Kathleen fell down the stairs while trying to get up and call for help. She then fell again, which is how she got most of her injuries. But they couldn’t think of a reason for the cuts on her face or the broken cartilage in her thyroid. Black and Hardin finally break Caitlin’s faith in Michael’s innocence when they show her Kathleen’s autopsy report. On the other hand, Candace comes up with her idea that Michael killed Kathleen by hitting her with the fireplace’s blow poke.
When Michael tells Bill about his affairs, he says that Kathleen already knew about them. The State’s Bureau of Investigation was able to repeat the crime using the blow poke that Candace gave each of her brothers, but they can’t find it anywhere in Peterson’s home. This leads the district attorney to believe that it was the murder weapon. Margaret Blair, Martha, and Margaret’s maternal aunt call the DA to tell them that her sister died 20 years ago in Germany at the bottom of a stairwell, just like Margaret. Michael found the body. The first autopsy of Elizabeth in Germany found that she died of an aneurysm. The sisters reluctantly gave the DA permission to dig up Elizabeth’s body because they thought it might help Michael’s case. Michael’s trial finally started in 2003.
Tim Guinee Horizon: An American Saga
Horizon; An American Saga is an upcoming film that is set to be released on June 28, 2024, and Chapter 2 is set to be released on August 16, 2024. Costner said in an interview in May 2023 that he hoped the first movie would be out by Fall 2023. The movie was split into two parts, which was announced in October 2023 Chapter 1 would be released on June 28, 2024, and Chapter 2 would be released on August 16, 2024. Later that month, it was announced that K5 Foreign, the newly relaunched foreign sales arm of K5 Media Group, would be in charge of selling the movie in other countries at the American Film Market.
Tim Guinee Hell On Wheels
Guinee plays the role of Collis Huntington in the TV series Hell on Wheels. Collis is an investor in the Central Pacific Railroad on season 5; recurring seasons 3–4. Collins was a wealthy American businessman and railroad owner. The fifth season takes place in California and Laramie, Wyoming. The Central Pacific train hired Bohannon to build the transcontinental train over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the east. Its Chinese workers, like Mei, a woman who dresses as a guy and goes by the name Fong, become his friends. President Ulysses S. Grant made the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad companies compete with each other more. The fact that Thomas Durant was dishonest makes this even more difficult.
Tim Guinee Movies and TV Shows
- The Staircase
- Inventing Anna
- Clarice
- NOS4A2
- Bull
- Blindspot
- The Same Storm
- Harriet
- Ash
- Ben Is Back
- Growing Up Smith
- About Scout
Tim Guinee Social Media Platforms
Guinee is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 8.5k followers on Twitter 1.6k followers on Instagram, and 1.2k followers on Facebook.