ACTOR

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

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ABOUT THIS CHARACTER

Bill Phillips is a character actor at home on stage and screen and comfortable in both dramatic and comedic roles.  He’s perhaps best known as Reverend Jenkins, Frank and Claire Underwood's hometown minister opposite Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in the Netflix series HOUSE OF CARDS. Bill was most recently on the New York stage in the Off-Broadway premiere of the acclaimed Michael McKeever play, AFTER, at 59E59. He can be seen on Apple TV as Mr. Pike in the Keola Racela comedy-horror film PORNO.  IndieWire called it, "Pure pulpy cinephile fun, the breakout of the SXSW Film Festival!" Bill has performed in television series such as LAW & ORDER: SVU, in the Amazon Prime series Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING as HL Mencken, and in NBC's SHADES OF BLUE (opposite Jennifer Lopez).

GOOD NEWS! I’ll be back on stage at Penguin Rep in their upcoming season this summer in the hilarious comedy, CENTENNIAL CASTING, playing the comedic sidekick DooDoo! If you’re in the New York area you may get tickets at PenguinRep.org

FINALLY! After 118 days an agreement with the film and television studios has been reached! Thanks to our Negotiating Team and fellow SAG-AFTRA members for standing strong until a fair contract was reached. All of those steps on the picket line were not in vain!

SAG-AFTRA STRONG!

Photos: Michael Cullen, Jason Liebman

Strike Captain Kevin Scullin, NY Local President Ezra Knight.

Connection is why we’re here, it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Brené Brown

With one of my acting and comedy heroes, Bill Irwin, at the Penguin Rep gala! Shouldn't we play brothers?!

 
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Reviews

“Bill Phillips seems born to his role… playing Father Murphy, he creates a complex man - emphasis on man - of the cloth.  Murphy is thoughtful and erudite, but he’s also tolerant, and Mr. Phillips makes it clear that he doesn’t really relish the debate with Melissa.  But when she points out that a celibate priesthood isn’t a biblical injunction, and says contemptuously, “You gave up sex for nothing!” Mr. Phillips recoils in a way that makes palpable the cost of Father Murphy’s sacrifice.”

New York Times review of The Savannah Disputation

"Vincent's right-hand man, known only by the unfortunate nickname of Doo-Doo, Bill Phillips, radiates an Ed Norton quality (the sewer worker on "The Honeymooners").  He inexplicably knows show business lingo and understands why actors list driving skills on their resumes (car chases)... a lovably tough-talking New Yorker, so sympathetic that the audience chooses to believe it... but keeping jokes so firmly in character is no small achievement."

New York Times review of Centennial Casting