Timothy V. Murphy

Timothy V. Murphy
Timothy Vincent Murphy (born 5 April 1960) is an Irish actor based in Los Angeles. His notable 2015 roles have been on The Bastard Executioner, Grace and Frankie, and True Detective. He played Galen O'Shea for three seasons on the Kurt Sutter FX series, Sons of Anarchy. For his portrayal, Murphy won the 2013 BuzzFocus Readers Choice Award for "Best Villain". He appeared for two seasons on NCIS: Los Angeles as Russian super-villain Sidorov, and a season on the CBS series, Criminal Minds as Emily Prentiss' nemesis/love interest, Ian Doyle. He has guest starred on such series as Hawaii Five-0, Revenge, Burn Notice, Shameless, Quantico, 24, Nip/Tuck, Alias, Six Feet Under, and Code Black.
Early life and education
Murphy was born Timothy Vincent Murphy in Tralee, County Kerry to Edward and Mary Murphy, one of six siblings. He began his career in Dublin, where he trained in the Focus Theater. He attended University College Cork, majoring in Law and Accounting. Murphy also spent time travelling in South Africa, working in construction and roof laying in the Bronx, New York City, and working in bars in Florida.
Career
Murphy's feature film credits include The Lone Ranger (2013); the action film parody MacGruber (2010), opposite Val Kilmer; Ed Harris' Western period drama Appaloosa (2008); the adventure thriller National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) and the horror thriller Shallow Ground (2004). In 2014, Murphy starred in Jason Momoa’s directorial debut, Road to Paloma; the Funk Brothers' film short Looms, which premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival; and the adventure drama Heaven's Floor, opposite Clea Duvall.
Murphy is also a stage actor and a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio. His theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane at South Coast Rep, for which he garnered an Ovation Award nomination, and Coast Theater's The Lost Plays of Tennessee Williams, which won the LA Weekly "Best Ensemble" Award and for which he garnered an individual "Best Performance" nomination. He originated the role of Jake in the world premiere of Stones in his Pockets at the Tivoli Theater in Dublin, and he starred opposite Tyne Daly in a production of Agamemnon staged at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California. In August 2018, he started appearing in advertisements for British price-comparison site Confused.com.
Personal life
He is married to Caitlin Manley. On 22 July 2015, their first child, Seán Fionn Murphy, was born.
Selected filmography
Glenroe (1995, TV Series) as Conor Sheehy (credited as Tim Murphy)
The Doorman (1999) as Milo
The District (2001, TV Series) as Martin McBride
The Scary Side of Randall Coombe (2001)
VIP (2001, TV Series) as General Volykov
Six Feet Under (2002, TV Series) as Louis Winchell
The Honorable (2002) as Milo
It Could Happen (2002, Short) as Sammy Fingleton
The Perfect Wife (2003) as Tim
Fastlane (2003, TV Series) as Riley Morrison
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003, TV Movie) as Inspector O'Dwyer
Missing Brendan (2003) as Mark
Paddy Takes a Meeting (2003, Short) as Paddy
Alias (2003, TV Series) as Avery Russet (uncredited)
Red Roses and Petrol (2003) as Eamonn
Skeleton Man (2004, TV Movie) as Sgt. Terry
Shallow Ground (2004) as Jack Sheppard
Nip/Tuck (2004, TV Series) as Quinn
Pit Fighter (2005) as Father Michael (credited as Tim Murphy)
What's Up, Scarlet? (2005) as Vladamir Borshkoff (credited as Timothy Murphy)
24 (2006, TV Series) as Schaeffer
Manband the Movie (2007) as R.S. Smoothskin
The Antique (2007, Short) as Tom
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) as Seth
Gemini Division (2008, TV Series) as Agent A
Beatrice (2008, Short) as Chris
Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009, Video) as Max (credited as Timothy Murphy)
The Butcher (2009) as Tyke (credited as Tim Murphy)
CSI: NY (2010, TV Series) as Conner Wells
The Sierra (2010, Short) as Bob
MacGruber (2010) as Constantine Bach (credited as Tim Murphy)
Madso's War (2010, TV Movie) as Kieran Graner
Treasure of the Black Jaguar (2010) as Blake West
Shameless (2011, TV Series) as Vlad
Chuck (2011, TV Series) as Father of the Bride
Bowman (2011, Short) as Bowman
Criminal Minds (2011, TV Series) as Ian Doyle
Amber Lake (2011) as Sergeant Eugene Stockard
Take a Seat (2011, Short) as Reynold
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: If I Had a Gun (2011, Short) as Father of the Bride
Sons of Anarchy (2011–2013, TV Series) as Galen O'Shay
Fairly Legal (2012, TV Series) as Captain Maiken
Not That Funny (2012) as Finneas Patrick O'Neill
Longmire (2012) as Ephraim Hostetler
Burn Notice (2012) as Vincent Durov
Hell on Wheels (2012) as Bauer
Lost Angeles (2012) as Cliff
Dark Canyon (2012) as Warden Cullen Logan
Revenge (2012) as Dmitri Bladoff
NCIS: Los Angeles (2012–2013, TV Series) as Isaak Sidorov
The Frankenstein Theory (2013) as Karl McCallion
The Lone Ranger (2013) as Fritz
To Hell with a Bullet (2003) as Dr. Nick Devyril
Dystopia (2013, Short) as Marc
Road to Paloma (2014) as FBI Agent Williams
Hawaii Five-0 (2014, TV Series) as Nick "Valentine" Mercer
Hot Bath an' a Stiff Drink (2014) as Dutch Winfield
Grace and Frankie (2015, TV Series) as Byron
How to Be a Gangster in America (2015) as Vlad
True Detective (2015, TV Series) as Osip Agranov
The Bastard Executioner (2015, TV Series) as Father Ruskin
Scorpion (2016, TV Series) as Lithuanian Prime Minister
No Way to Live (2016) as Detective Frank Giddins
Heaven's Floor (2016) as Jack
The Last Man on Earth (2017, TV Series) as Benjamin Brinton
Tragedy Girls (2017) as Sheriff Blane Welch
Anything (2017) as Isidore
Westworld (2018, TV Series) as Coughlin
The Ninth Passenger (2018) as Silas
Quantico (2018, TV Series) as Conor Devlin
Cuck (2019) as Bill
In Full Bloom (2019) as Roane
The Man in the High Castle (2019, TV Series) as SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Adolf Eichmann
Snowpiercer (2020-2021, TV Series) as Commander Grey
Breach (2020) as Commander Stanley
Hell Hath No Fury (2021) as Jerry
Playing Through (2021) as James Grantham
New Year (2021) as Ben
S.W.A.T. (2021-22, TV Series) as Arthur Novak (three episodes)
MacGruber (2021, TV Series) as Constantine Bach
LA's Finest (2021) as Logan Kline
American Siege (2022) as Charles Rutledge
Detective Knight: Independence (2023) as Vincent
Law & Order: Organized Crime (2023–present)
The Company You Keep (2023) as Maguire
Mob Land (2023) as Ben
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
Irish male film actors
Irish male television actors
Male actors from County Kerry
People from Tralee
20th-century Irish male actors
21st-century Irish male actors
Alumni of University College Cork
Irish expatriates in the United States