Anson Mount

Anson is an accomplished actor and writer widely known for his role as Cullen Bohannan on AMC’s hit series Hell on Wheels. He will next be seen as Black Bolt in Marvel’s The Inhumans on ABC. Mount made his feature film debut as Tully Coats in the independent film Tully (2000). He received widespread critical praise for the performance, and the film won several film festival awards and numerous Independent Spirit Award nominations. In 2009, Mount starred in and produced Cook County. Other films include Non-Stop, City by the Sea, Poolhall Junkies, Burning Palms, Hick, Safe, Supremacy, The Forger, and Mr. Right. On television, Mount starred in the NBC drama series Conviction as Deputy District Attorney Jim Steele. He also starred in the ABC series Line of Fire, touted by the Miami Herald as “the best new drama of the year.” Anson Mount’s writing has been equally acclaimed. 

He made the finalist list for the American Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill in 2008 for his full length play Atomic City, which was also selected in the Great Plains Theatre Conference as well as Last Frontier Theater Conference. Mount won the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize for his one act Love Liza? produced at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo. He is also the author of Colonus, detailing the friendship and collaboration of Charles Laughton and Bertolt Brecht, as well at the screenplays Pure Fantasy and co-author of Hysteria. Born in White Bluff, Tennessee, Mount holds a MFA in acting from Columbia University, where he now serves as an Associate Adjunct Professor. He is also executive producing The Well, a podcast set to debut in the Fall. He currently resides in New York.