Personal life

Boothe, the youngest of three boys, was born on a farm in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County, Texas, to Emily Kathryn (née Reeves) and Merrill Vestal Boothe, a rancher. He has been married to his college sweetheart Pam since 1969, and as of 2012, they lived in Los Angeles with their two children, Parisse and Preston.

Career

After graduating from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, Boothe joined the repertory company of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, with roles in Henry IV, Part 2 (portraying Henry IV of England), Troilus and Cressida, and others. His New York stage debut was in the 1974 Lincoln Center production of Richard III. Five years later, his Broadway theater debut came in a starring role in the one-act play Lone Star, written by James McLure.

Boothe first came to national attention in 1980, playing Jim Jones in the CBS-TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. Boothe's portrayal of the crazed cult leader received critical acclaim. In Time's story on the production, Boothe was praised: "There is one extraordinary performance. A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the charisma and evil of 'Dad', Jim Jones." Boothe won the Emmy Award for his role, beating out veterans Henry Fonda and Jason Robards. As the Screen Actors Guild were on strike in the fall of 1980, he was the only actor to cross picket lines to attend the ceremonies, saying at the time, "This may be either the bravest moment of my career or the dumbest."

Powers Boothe made an appearance during the 1987 Celebrity Golf Challenge for Charity where he made the current long drive record for celebrities of 490 yards. For these efforts, Boothe was awarded the Golden Pumpkin, but, because of scheduling conflicts, he could not receive the award in person.

Boothe joined the ranks of Humphrey Bogart and other actors when he portrayed Philip Marlowe in a series of short films for HBO in the 1980s. He appeared in such films as Southern Comfort, A Breed Apart, Red Dawn, The Emerald Forest and Extreme Prejudice, as well as the HBO films Into the Homeland and By Dawn's Early Light. Additionally, he appeared in the 1990 CBS-TV film Family of Spies, in which he played traitor Navy Officer John Walker. Boothe portrayed Curly Bill Brocius in the hit 1993 Western Tombstone, the disloyal senior Army officer in Blue Sky (opposite Jessica Lange's Oscar-winning performance), and the sinister lead terrorist in Sudden Death. He was also part of the large ensemble casts for Oliver Stone's Nixon (as Chief of Staff Alexander Haig) and U Turn (as the town sheriff).

In 2001, he starred as Flavius Aëtius, the Roman general in charge of stopping the Hun invasion in the made-for-TV miniseries Attila. Boothe played a featured role as brothel-owner Cy Tolliver on the HBO series Deadwood, and the seedy Senator Roark in the motion picture Sin City (2005), as well as its sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). He is the voice of one of the characters in the 2005 video game Area 51 and of Gorilla Grodd, the hyper-intelligent telepathic supervillain in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. He voiced the villain, Kane, in the 2008 video game Turok.

He was a special guest star on 24, where he played Vice President Noah Daniels. He returned in the prequel to the seventh season, 24: Redemption. Just after taking the role as acting President, Boothe is seen exiting Air Force Two with F-15s in the background. Boothe played a downed F-15 pilot in Red Dawn. In March 2008, he narrated a television campaign ad for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign. He maintains a private art collection which includes Western paintings of his friend and fellow actor Buck Taylor.

In 2012, Boothe appeared in Joss Whedon's The Avengers in a secretive role as a shadowy governmental superior to S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2015-16, he reprised the role, now named Gideon Malick, in ABC's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'

Boothe appeared in the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys as Judge Valentine "Wall" Hatfield. Boothe was also cast as Lamar Wyatt in the ABC musical drama series Nashville. Boothe also lent his voice to Hitman: Absolution, a 2012 video game developed by IO Interactive, voicing the character of Benjamin Travis.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1977	The Goodbye Girl	Richard III Cast
1980	Cruising	Hankie Salesman
1980	The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful)	???
1981	Southern Comfort	Hardin
1984	A Breed Apart	Mike Walker
1984	Red Dawn	Lt. Col. Andrew 'Andy' Tanner
1985	The Emerald Forest	Bill Markham
1987	Extreme Prejudice	Cash Bailey
1988	Sapphire Man	Ryan	short
1989	Stalingrad	General Cuikov
1992	Rapid Fire	Mace Ryan
1993	Tombstone	Curly Bill Brocius
1994	Blue Sky	Vince Johnson
1995	Mutant Species	Frost
1995	Sudden Death	Joshua Foss
1995	Nixon	Alexander Haig	Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
1997	Con Air	Officer at Leaving Ceremony	voice
1997	U Turn	Sheriff Potter
2000	Men of Honor	Captain Pullman
2001	Frailty	FBI Agent Wesley Doyle
2005	Sin City	Senator Roark
2006	Superman: Brainiac Attacks	Lex Luthor	voice
2007	The Final Season	Jim Van Scoyoc
2008	Edison and Leo	George T. Edison	voice
2010	MacGruber	Col. Jim Faith
2011	Guns, Girls and Gambling	The Rancher
2012	The Avengers	Gideon Malick
2013	Straight A's	Father
2014	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Senator Roark

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Skag	Whalen	6 episodes
1980	The Plutonium Incident	Dick Hawkins
1980	Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones	Jim Jones	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1980	A Cry for Love	Tony Bonnell
1983-1986	Philip Marlowe, Private Eye	Philip Marlowe	11 episodes Nominated — CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Presentation (1983)
1987	Into the Homeland	Jackson Swallow	Nominated — CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries
1990	Family of Spies	John A. Walker Jr
1990	By Dawn's Early Light	Cassidy
1992	National Geographic: Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas	Narrator
1992	Wild Card	Preacher
1993	Marked for Murder	Mace 'Sandman' Moutron
1994	Web of Deception	Dr. Philip Benesch
1996	Dalva	Sam
1997	True Women	Bartlett McClure
1998	The Spree	Det. Bram Hatcher
1999	Joan of Arc	Jacques D'Arc
1999	A Crime of Passion	Dr. Ben Pierce
2001	Attila	Flavius Aetius
2003	Second Nature	Kelton Reed
2002-2006	Justice League	Gorilla Grodd / Red Tornado	voice, 9 episodes
2004-2006	Deadwood	Cy Tolliver	34 episodes Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2007)
2006	National Geographic: Lions v. Hyenas	1 episode, narrator
2007	24	Vice President Noah Daniels	14 episodes
2008	24: Redemption	President Noah Daniels
2012	Hatfields & McCoys	Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield
2012-2014	Nashville	Lamar Wyatt	Series Regular, Season 1 Recurring Role, Season 2, 26 episodes Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2012)
2015-2016	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Gideon Malick	10 episodes
2015	Moonbeam City	Eo Jaxxon	Episode: "Glitzotrene: One Town’s Seduction"

Video games

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2005	Area 51	Major Bridges	voice
2008	Turok	Roland Kane	voice
2012	Hitman: Absolution	Benjamin Travis	voice

[ Source: Wikipedia ]