Paul Sparks

Paul Sparks

Born: October 16, 1971
in Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his role as Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire and for his Primetime Emmy Award-nominated role as Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. He has also appeared in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), and Stealing Cars (2015).

Movies for Paul Sparks...

The Bikeriders
Title: The Bikeriders
Character: Gary Rogue Leader
Released: June 19, 2024
Type: Movie
Kathy, a strong-willed member of the Vandals who's married to a wild, reckless bikerider named Benny, recounts the Vandals' evolution over the course of a decade, beginning as a local club of outsiders united by good times, rumbling bikes and respect for their strong, steady leader Johnny. As life in the Vandals gets more dangerous, and the club threatens to become a more sinister gang, Kathy, Benny and Johnny are forced to make choices about their loyalty to the club and to each other.
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Eric LaRue
Title: Eric LaRue
Released: June 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.
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Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Title: Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Character: Daryl
Released: May 1, 2023
Type: Movie
After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a surreal journey as they attempt to track down the perpetrators.
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Title: Joe Pickett
Character: Wacey
Released: December 6, 2021
Type: TV
A game warden and his family navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming on the verge of economic collapse. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered.
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Hands That Bind
Title: Hands That Bind
Character: Andy Hollis
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
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Title: Physical
Character: John Breem
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: TV
Sheila Rubin is a quietly tormented housewife in ’80s San Diego. Behind closed doors, she battles extreme personal demons and a vicious inner voice. But things change when she discovers aerobics, sparking a journey toward empowerment and success.
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Human Capital
Title: Human Capital
Character: Jon
Released: July 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change their lives forever. At the same time, the accident has a major impact on both their families who, despite the class difference, cross paths.
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The Lovebirds
Title: The Lovebirds
Character: Moustache
Released: May 22, 2020
Type: Movie
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.
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Long Way Back Home
Title: Long Way Back Home
Character: Blundell
Released: August 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucero.
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Title: Random Acts of Flyness
Character: Joel
Released: August 4, 2018
Type: TV
Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.
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Title: Castle Rock
Character: John "Ace" Merrill
Released: July 25, 2018
Type: TV
Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
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Title: Sweetbitter
Character: Howard
Released: May 6, 2018
Type: TV
Shortly after arriving in New York City, 22-year-old Tess lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and fine dining, she learns to navigate the chaotically alluring, yet punishing life she has stumbled upon.
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Thoroughbreds
Title: Thoroughbreds
Character: Mark
Released: March 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Two teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. In the process, they learn that neither is what she seems to be, and that a murder might solve both of their problems.
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Title: Waco
Character: Steve Schneider
Released: January 24, 2018
Type: TV
The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.
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The Greatest Showman
Title: The Greatest Showman
Character: James Gordon Bennett
Released: December 20, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Title: Get Shorty
Character: Owen
Released: August 13, 2017
Type: TV
Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.
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Buried Child
Title: Buried Child
Character: Tilden
Released: November 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group, directed by Scott Elliott. Dodge (Ed Harris) and Halie (Amy Madigan) try to hang on to their farmland and their sanity while caring for their two wayward grown sons (Rich Sommer and Paul Sparks). When their grandson (Nat Wolff) arrives no one seems to recognize him and a secret must be kept.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Reverend Billy Graham
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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In the Radiant City
Title: In the Radiant City
Character: Michael Yurley
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 years ago.
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Title: The Night Of
Character: Don Taylor
Released: July 10, 2016
Type: TV
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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Title: The Girlfriend Experience
Character: David Tellis
Released: April 10, 2016
Type: TV
Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.
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All the Birds Have Flown South
Title: All the Birds Have Flown South
Character: Stephen
Released: April 10, 2016
Type: Movie
After the death of his overbearing Mother, a sheltered man attempts to win the affection of a degenerate waitress by caring for her terminally ill and abusive husband. Soon all three lives begin to unravel as obsession and disease consume them all.
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Stealing Cars
Title: Stealing Cars
Character: Conrad Sean Lewis
Released: April 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system.
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Midnight Special
Title: Midnight Special
Character: Agent Miller
Released: February 12, 2016
Type: Movie
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
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Parkland
Title: Parkland
Character: Harry McCormick
Released: October 2, 2013
Type: Movie
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.
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Sparrows Dance
Title: Sparrows Dance
Character: Wes
Released: August 23, 2013
Type: Movie
A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows, she is forced to call in the plumber.
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Mud
Title: Mud
Character: Carver
Released: April 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.
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Trust Me
Title: Trust Me
Character: Ray
Released: April 20, 2013
Type: Movie
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.
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Title: House of Cards
Character: Thomas Yates
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: TV
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.
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The Understudy
Title: The Understudy
Character: Bobby
Released: March 16, 2012
Type: Movie
A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.
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Title: Person of Interest
Character: Wilson
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: TV
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 
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Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Ted Hobey
Released: March 27, 2011
Type: TV
Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.
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Return
Title: Return
Character: Ed
Released: February 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
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Title: Boardwalk Empire
Character: Mickey Doyle
Released: September 19, 2010
Type: TV
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
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Please Give
Title: Please Give
Character: Blind Date
Released: April 30, 2010
Type: Movie
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
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Edge of Darkness
Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: Northampton Police Detective
Released: January 28, 2010
Type: Movie
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
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Afterschool
Title: Afterschool
Character: Detective Eclisse
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
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The Missing Person
Title: The Missing Person
Character: Gus Papitos
Released: January 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.
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Synecdoche, New York
Title: Synecdoche, New York
Character: Derek
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Rachel Getting Married
Title: Rachel Getting Married
Character: 12-Step Meeting Member
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: Movie
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Detective Burke
Released: April 24, 2008
Type: Movie
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.
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Blackbird
Title: Blackbird
Character: Baylis
Released: March 12, 2007
Type: Movie
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.
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Doris
Title: Doris
Character: Hubert
Released: September 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Doris is stranded in a small boat off the coast of a desolate winter beach town. The water is rough and cold, and Doris is in need of immediate medical attention. A short film by Sean Durkin.
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Headspace
Title: Headspace
Character: Jason
Released: September 18, 2005
Type: Movie
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Keith Durbin
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Marty Potter / Marvin Posey
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Paul Luterik
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Title: Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Character: Mr. Donald Fendler
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from sight. And he doesn't count on taking a turn that leaves him alone to wander aimlessly for nearly two weeks in the empty mountain wilderness.