TOBIN BELL

Tobin Bell has appeared in the films Sophie’s Choice, Mississippi Burning, Ruby, In The Line Of Fire, The Firm, Malice, Goodfellas and The Quick and the Dead. He’s worked with directors Alan Pecula, John MacKenzie, Sidney Pollack, Martin Scorcese, Wolfgang Petersen, Alan Parker, Harold Becker and Sam Raimi, among others.

Recently, he developed the lead role of Jigsaw in eight Saw films, distributed by Lionsgate. This series has become the highest grossing horror franchise in film history. For that role, he has received Best Actor nominations from MTV Movie Awards, Spike TV Movie Awards and Canada’s Space Channel. In 2009, he was awarded Universal Studios’ Film Eyegore Award for his role in Saw.

His other films include The Fourth Floor, An Innocent Man, Road to El Dorado, Good Neighbor, Black Mask 2, Power Play, Boiling Point, Cheyenne, Buried Alive, Dark House, Manson Family Vacation, Unbelief, Phantom Halo, The Old Man & the Pond & Let Us In.

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Prominent TV outings include recurring roles on the award-winning Fox series 24, Alias, NBC’s drama Revelations and The Kill Point. He’s also appeared on Seinfeld, West Wing, The Sopranos, X-Files, NYPD Blue, The Guardian, Charmed, Once and Again, Murder One, ER, Chicago Hope, Criminal Minds and Creepshow. Television movies-of-the-week include Mortal Fear, One Hot Summer Night, Deep Red, Babysitter’s Seduction and the title role of Theodore Kaczynski in Unabomber.

He’s a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

He received his formal acting training in New York with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. His theater credits include the New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Playwright’s Horizons, Theater for the New City, Boston Arts Festival, Second Stage, Theater D’ Lys, St. Marks Theater and regional theaters.

He was born in Queens, New York and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. A graduate of Boston University, he holds a Master’s Degree from Montclair State University in Environmental Studies. His hobbies and favorites include climbing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, playing guitar, photography and the game of baseball. He splits his time between New York and Los Angeles.