Chris Kerson

ACTOR, CASTING_DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

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Chris Kerson is an American film, television, and theater actor. He is best known for his roles as Nails in True Detective and Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson in Gotti.Kerson was born in New York City and spent his childhood living between Manhattan and Westchester. He attended the College of William and Mary where he earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology. During his studies, he happened into an acting class, to satisfy an arts elective. He discovered a passion for the medium that would become his career. Immediately following graduation, he began frequent rotations between New York City and Los Angeles for work and continued development of his craft.Kerson's filmography began with a role in Paul Duran's freshman feature, Flesh Suitcase, which premiered at WorldFest Houston in 1995. He played lead in The Ride, by NYU filmmaker and Martin Scorsese Scholarship recipient, Thomas Kim, of which Scorsese named best short film of the year. In 2010, Kerson found critical and audience acclaim as the lead in Sean Kirkpatrick's Big Break Movie Contest feature Cost of a Soul. The gritty drama, about a combat soldier who returns to violence in the streets of Philadelphia, opened in 50 theaters nationwide and screened at numerous festivals. Kerson played a supporting role in Broadway's Finest, which won the Audience Award for Best Film at the 2012 Long Island International Film Expo. He followed that performance as a co-star in Another Zero in the System before working alongside Lance Henriksen in the cult sci-fi Daylight's End. Kerson won multiple awards for his co-starring role in the 2019 suspense short Rendezvous. He played Paddy (son of Bruce Dern's character) in the 2020 comedy Crabs in a Bucket. Chris plays a leading role as Detective Kevin McKenzie in Equal Standard, a 2020 NYPD action and crime-thriller starring and executive-produced by Ice-T.Kerson's work in television got started with a supporting role as Buck in the "Takedown" episode of Pacific Blue's first season. In 2010, he nabbed an uncredited role as the Cool Camera Guy in the "College" episode (season 5, episode 6) of 30 Rock. Next, Kerson played Gunnar in the Merchants of Menace episode in the 15th season of the hit show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2015 Kerson landed his breakout role, as the recurring character Nails in the HBO hit True Detective. Nails is named for the scars he wears as the survivor of a nail gun attack.Kerson has worked off-Broadway in a variety of theater roles. Early billings include Franz Xaver Kroetz' play The Nest and Stephan Morrow's Hurry, which saw a sold-out show at the Blue Heron Art Center. He played Carl the Usher in the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams' rediscovered play These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch. Kerson also starred in Mario Fratti's Missionaries opposite theater icon Rose Gregorio. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Wikipedia

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Releases by Year

Chris Kerson on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1997 to 2015. See the full graphs of the number of Chris Kerson movies released per year from 1997 till 2015.

Top Genres

Chris Kerson works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Fantasy Genre flixes. 44% of Chris Kerson movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Chris Kerson worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Chris Kerson has worked on is 6.3.

6.3 / 10

Chris Kerson's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A vigilante ex-con is determined to clean up his crime-infested community. As he avenges the death of his sister, he begins a series of actions that may lead to his own destruction.

5.8/1084 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

A gritty tale of two veterans who return home from Iraq to the war-zone of their own slum neighborhood. Their lives collide as their own families become entangled in a web of crime and corruption.

5.1/10107 min

Available in 8 platform(s).