Anson Mount

 ( 1973 Births ) 

Anson Adams Mount IV (born February 25, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Cullen Bohannon in the AMC western drama series Hell on Wheels, as Jim Steele on the NBC series Conviction (2006), as the Marvel Comics superhero Black Bolt in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise (appearing in Inhumans and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), and as Captain Christopher "Chris" Pike in the Star Trek television series , (2019), and (2022present). He also starred opposite Britney Spears in the coming-of-age film Crossroads (2002). He is a member of the board of directors of METI International.

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Early life Mount's father, Anson Adams Mount II, was one of the original contributing editors to Playboy magazine. His mother, Nancy Smith, is a former professional golfer. From his father's first marriage, Mount has an older brother (Anson Adams Mount III) and two sisters.

Mount attended Dickson County High School in Dickson, Tennessee, , and Columbia University.

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Career

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Stage In 1998, Mount starred in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, for which he was honored by the Drama League.

In 2008, he was a finalist for the American Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center in 2008 for his full-length play Atomic City, and won the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize for his one-act play Love Liza? In 2010 he appeared in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company. In 2018 he appeared in Robert O'Hara's Mankind at Playwrights Horizons.

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Film Mount made his feature film debut in 2000 as Tully Coats in the independent film Tully.

In 2009, he produced and starred in the independent film Cook County, which earned awards at several major film festivals, including Hollywood, AFI Dallas, Nashville and SXSW.

In 2022, Mount portrayed Black Bolt in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, reprising his role from 2017's Inhumans.

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Television Mount is widely known for his role as Cullen Bohannon on AMC's hit series Hell on Wheels, which he also produced from 2014 to 2016.

In 2017, he starred as Black Bolt in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) ABC television series Inhumans.

In 2018, he was cast as Captain Christopher Pike of the Starship Enterprise in the CBS series . His performance was well received, and inspired a popular petition for a Pike spin-off series. In 2019, he reprised his role as Pike in a few episodes. In May 2020, it was announced that, due in part to fans' requests, he would star as Pike in the new series , which premiered on May 5, 2022.

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Academic Mount is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University, teaching audition technique for graduate actors.

His non-fiction pieces have been published in the magazines Mosaic, The Daily Beast and Cowboys & Indians, and in the Calgary Herald newspaper.

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Personal life On July 8, 2017, Mount announced his engagement to his longtime girlfriend, photographer Darah Trang. They were married on February 20, 2018, and have a daughter, who was born in December 2021. He is an Episcopalian.

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Credits

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Film

Nominated Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Combo (shared with Britney Spears) Nominated Teen Choice Award for Best Chemistry (shared with Britney Spears)
TV movie
TV movie
Voice
MK Ultra	Ford Strauss

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Television

Episode: "Civil War"

Episode: "Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women"

5 episodes

Episode: "Precipice"

13 episodes

Episode: "Not Landing"

13 episodes

Episode: "Man of Science, Man of Faith"

Episode: "Church"

Episode: "Gray Hour"

Lead role; 55 episodes

3 episodes

Lead role; 8 episodes

Series regular; 14 episodes

4 episodes

3 episodes

Voice role; 12 episodes

Main role; 20 episodes Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor in a Streaming Series (2022) Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor in a Television Series (2024)

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Theater

1998	Cymbeline	Delacorte Theater	Iachimo/Jupiter
	Cymbeline	Delacorte Theater	Frenchman/Roman Captain
	Corpus Christi	New York City Center/ Stage I	Joshua
	The Caucasian Chalk Circle	La MaMa E.T.C.
2002	Elle	Zipper Theatre	photographer
2008	Glengarry Glen Ross	Macha Theater	Richard Roma
2009	Mourning Becomes Electra	Acorn Theater	Captain Adam Brant
2010	Fifth of July	Bay Street Theatre	Kenneth Talley Jr.
2011	Three Sisters	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	Solyony
2013	Venus in Fur	Singapore Repertory Theatre-DBS Arts Centre	Thomas
2018	Mankind	Playwrights Horizons	Mark

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As producer/director/writer

2008	Cook County	film	Producer/starring	Dallas International Film Festival 2008 Special Jury Prize Hollywood Film Awards 2008 Hollywood Discovery Award - Best Feature Film Nashville Film Festival 2008 Best of Festival Award - Honorable Mention The SXSW Film Awards 2008 The Audience Award Sidewalk Film Festival 2008 Best Feature Film
	Atomic City	theature	Dramaturg/playwright
2009	In Stereo	short	Producer
2011	Love Liza?	theature	Playwright	Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize
2013	Last Time We Checked	short	Executive producer/Director/Writer
2015–2016	Hell on Wheels	TV	Producer	Alberta Film & Television Awards 2015 Rosie Awards: Best Dramatic Series Alberta Film & Television Awards 2016 Rosie Awards: Best Dramatic Series

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Podcast Mount writes, produces, and hosts The Well podcast with his longtime friend Branan Edgens. He has served as a narrator on the Pseudopod podcast, reading the Thomas Ligotti story "The Town Manager".

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Video games

Cameo

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External links

• The Well Podcast

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