Robert Knepper Biography
When Robert Knepper initially broke into Hollywood, his unusual appearance -- markedly gaunt, with coal-black hair, olive skin, deep-set eyes, and a frequent goatee -- made him a virtual shoe-in as a character actor. Knepper debuted on a prestigious note, working for producer Tony_Adams and director Blake_Edwards in the Jack_Lemmon/Julie_Andrews comedy-drama That's_Life! (1986). In terms of quality, subsequent efforts ran the gamut from the okay romance Made in Heaven (1987) to the awful superhero picture Wild_Thing (1987) to the well-received post-noir thriller D.O.A. (1988). For better or worse, these were all generally A-list releases; as Knepper's career rolled on, he expanded his workload to include telemovies (Zelda, 1993) and direct-to-video pictures (Mugshot, 1996; Lady in the Box, 2001), with occasional work in Hollywood A-listers (such as Woody_Allen's 1996 Everyone_Says_I_Love_You). Knepper is best known, however, for his series portrayals of the predatory white-supremacist inmate "T-Bag" (aka Theodore Bagwell) on the popular Fox show Prison_Break (starting in 2005) and "roving reporter" Tommy Dolan on the cult HBO supernatural drama Carnivàle (2003-2005). Nathan Southern, Rovi
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