Justify This: A Career Without Compromise

About Nick Searcy

Veteran actor Nick Searcy has maintained a distinguished career spanning more than three decades. His credits range from independent features to Hollywood blockbusters and television series hits. He played General Hoyt in Guillermo del Toros 2018 Best Picture winner The Shape of Water and had a role in the multiple Oscar-winning film Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri from writer-director Martin McDonagh. Searcys other big-screen highlights include Bennett Millers Oscar-nominated Moneyball Robert Zemeckiss Cast Away and Jon Avnets beloved classic Fried Green Tomatoes. Other films include The Best of Enemies The Last Song The Ugly Truth The Dead Girl Runaway Jury Eagle Eye Head of State Nell The Fugitive Days of Thunder and many others. Searcy appeared in two feature films in 2022 both westerns: The Old Way opposite Nicolas Cage and Terror on the Prairie starring Gina Carano. His most recent project is the 2023 film Reagan in which he plays Secretary of State James Baker. On television he is best known for the tough-but-tender Chief Deputy Art Mullen on the FX series Justified. He also appeared as Deke Simmons in Hulus 11/22/63 and has been a series regular on UPNs Seven Days CBSs American Gothic HBOs From the Earth to the Moon ABCs Rodney and CWs Easy Money. He has guest starred on countless shows including Lethal Weapon The Ranch Chicago Med Hawaii Five-0 Mom Hot in Cleveland Intelligence Archer The Mentalist Lie to Me Without a Trace The West Wing CSI Ill Fly Away In the Heat of the Night and NCIS. Also an accomplished director Searcys first film Paradise Falls (now called Carolina Low) won six festival awards including the Best Feature Film award at the 1997 Hollywood Film Festival. His second film Gosnell was released in theaters nationwide on October 12 2018. In 2023 he will direct the feature film Infiltration. Searcys first documentary America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee an exploration of the relationship between God and America is available on Amazon. The second documentary Searcy has produced and hosted Capitol Punishment is available at capitolpunishment.locals.com. Justify This is Searcys first book.