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About Nick SearcyJohnny Russo

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 Toro’s 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.

Searcy’s other big-screen highlights include Bennett Miller’s Oscar-nominated Moneyball, Robert Zemeckis’s Cast Away, and Jon Avnet’s 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 Hulu’s 11/22/63 and has been a series regular on UPN’s Seven Days, CBS’s American Gothic, HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon, ABC’s Rodney, and CW’s 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, I’ll Fly Away, In the Heat of the Night, and NCIS.

Also an accomplished director, Searcy’s 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.

Searcy’s 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 Searcy’s first book.