Although the streaming date has not been announced with precision, the third season of Landman already promises to be exceptional, filled with plot twists and highly intriguing updates affecting both the storyline and the cast. Among the most anticipated new arrivals is Michael Kelly. The unforgettable Doug Stamper from House of Cards – The Intrigues of Power will take on the role of William Crockett, the executive of the world’s largest oil management company. But while we await to discover what will unfold in the new episodes and how Crockett will relate to Tommy Norris, how about revisiting some of the most iconic TV series in which he has appeared?
Where else have we seen the House of Cards actor in other TV series
Paragraphs sent to memory by fans of Michael Kelly certainly recall him from House of Cards. Yet the Philadelphia-born actor, born in 1969, has over the years taken part in other acclaimed TV series that, if you haven’t seen them yet, we strongly recommend watching them all in one sitting.
Born in Philadelphia but raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Kelly began his acting career in the mid-1990s with small cameos or supporting roles on various TV shows, such as Law & Order – Special Victims Unit. Although he appeared in a number of notable films, including What Just Happened, Private Justice, The Guardians of Destiny, Now You See Me – The Magicians of Crime, Man of Steel, Everest, The Secret in Their Eyes, Transformers – Rise of the Beasts, and The Night Always Comes, he soon realized that his true calling lay in television, and in particular, in TV series.
From the early 2000s onward, he appeared in a range of successful series such as Judging Amy, CSI: Miami, The Sopranos, Criminal Minds, and Black Mirror, gradually taking on more significant or leading roles. But what cemented his broad appeal—and contributed to extraordinary success beyond House of Cards—are especially these series: Person of Interest, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Jack Ryan, Lioness, The Penguin.
In Person of Interest, Kelly portrays Mark Snow, a cynical and relentless CIA agent who appears as one of the recurring antagonists in the early seasons, pursuing the protagonist John Reese, convinced he is a traitor. In Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, he plays FBI Special Agent Jonathan “Prophet” Simms, a man haunted by a troubled past who spent six years in prison for the murder of his wife and uses his own inner darkness to understand the minds of serial killers.
Among his most memorable characters is certainly Mike November in Jack Ryan: the former station chief of the CIA in Venezuela who, initially a rather rigid bureaucrat, quickly becomes a field agent—ironically witty and willing to go to great lengths to do the right thing. Also in Lioness he is part of the CIA as Byron Westfield, the deputy director of CIA operations, cold and pragmatic, skilled at managing the political repercussions of secret undercover missions. Finally, in The Penguin, a TV series tied to the Batman cinematic universe, the actor plays Johnny Viti, the underboss of the Falcone crime family who runs the group’s operations in Gotham City and increasingly becomes entangled in the power struggle between Oz Cobb and Sofia Falcone.
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