Chris Sullivan
Birthdate: July 19, 1980 (45 Years Old)
Birthplace: Palm Springs, California
Chris Sullivan made his big-screen debut in director/writer/producer/star Matthew Stanton’s crime drama, North Starr (2008), with Jerome Hawkins and premiering in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Sullivan had a supporting role in the Dennis Lehane-written crime drama, The Drop (2014), with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, and John Ortiz, grossing $19 million gross for Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Sullivan joined the cast of 20th Century Fox’s low-budget ($8 million) action movie, Morgan (2016), marking the feature directorial debut of producer Ridley Scott’s son, Luke, and co-starring Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Boyd Holbrook, Michelle Yeoh, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Giamatti. Sullivan supported debuting director/writer Daniel Ragussis’s true story FBI thriller, Imperium (2016), starring Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, and Nestor Carbonell, and released by Lionsgate Premiere.
Chris Sullivan continued his run in supporting roles in director/writer/star Ben Affleck’s thoughtful adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s crime novel, Live by Night (2016), starring Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Cooper, co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, but losing money for Warner Bros. ($23 million gross vs. $90 million costs). Sullivan played Taserface in director/writer James Gunn’s sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), starring Chris Pratt, Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell, and turning a profit for Marvel/Disney with a $869 million gross.
Sullivan appeared in the little-seen indie, The Independents (2018), directed and written by Greg Naughton, with Rich Price, George Wendt, and Richard Kind, and then Sullivan joined the cast of debuting director/writer Logan Marshall-Green’s drama, Adopt a Highway (2019), starring Ethan Hawke, and released by RLJE Films after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Sullivan then co-starred in three consecutive horror movies, starting with director/writer/producer Josh Lobo’s I Trapped the Devil (2019), with A.J. Bowen, Scott Poythress, and Susan Burke and released by IFC Midnight. Sullivan co-starred in the Jacob Gentry-directed Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021), co-starring Harry Shum Jr. and released by MPI Media Group/Dark Sky Films after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Then Sullivan took on a supporting role in director/co-writer Mickey Reece’s horror movie, Agnes (2021), with Hayley McFarland and Molly Quinn, and distributed in limited pattern by Magnet Releasing after a Tribeca Film Festival premiere.
Chris Sullivan landed his most prominent role to date as co-star of Steven Soderbergh’s haunted house movie, Presence (2025), starring Lucy Liu, Callina Liang, and Julia Fox, and released in theaters by Neon exactly a year after its 2024 Sundance premiere. Sullivan joined the cast of MGM/Amazon MGM Studios’ sci-fi thriller, Mercy (2025), with Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, and Annabelle Wallis under the direction of Timur Bekmambetov, who also produced.
Personal life
Chris Sullivan was born in Palm Springs, California, and raised by his parents in Sacramento, California. Sullivan graduated from a Sacramento-area Catholic high school and then attended and graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts. Sullivan has been married to producer Rachel Reichard since 2010; the couple has two children. Sullivan’s height is 6’ 4”.
Awards
Nominee, Best ) Actor-Drama Series, Emmy Awards (2019, 2021); Two-time Winner, Best Ensemble—Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Awards (2018-2019).
Chris Sullivan Movies
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Live by Night
asBrendan Loomis
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Facts About Chris Sullivan
Man with a Band: Chris Sullivan has founded a band called Sully and the Benevolent Folk.
Catholic: Sullivan was not raised in a Catholic family, but he did attend Catholic high school and the Catholic-administered Loyola Marymount College.
