Anson Adams Mount IV (born February 25, 1973) is an American actor. He
is known for his television roles as fictional character Cullen
Bohannon in the AMC western drama series Hell on Wheels, as Jim Steele
on the short-lived NBC series Conviction, as the Marvel Comics
superhero Black Bolt in Marvel's Inhumans, and as Captain Christopher
Pike in season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. He also appeared in the film
Crossroads (2002).Mount was born February 25, 1973, in Mount Prospect,
Illinois, and grew up in White Bluff, Tennessee. His mother, Nancy
Smith, is a former professional golfer. His father, Anson Adams Mount
II, was one of the original contributing editors to Playboy magazine.
Anson has an older brother, Anson Adams III, and two sisters from his
father's first marriage. Mount's great-great-great grandfather was a
Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War.Mount attended Dickson
County High School in Dickson, Tennessee, Sewanee: The University of
the South, and Columbia University.In 1998, Anson Mount starred in
Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, for which he was honored by the
Drama League.
is known for his television roles as fictional character Cullen
Bohannon in the AMC western drama series Hell on Wheels, as Jim Steele
on the short-lived NBC series Conviction, as the Marvel Comics
superhero Black Bolt in Marvel's Inhumans, and as Captain Christopher
Pike in season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery. He also appeared in the film
Crossroads (2002).Mount was born February 25, 1973, in Mount Prospect,
Illinois, and grew up in White Bluff, Tennessee. His mother, Nancy
Smith, is a former professional golfer. His father, Anson Adams Mount
II, was one of the original contributing editors to Playboy magazine.
Anson has an older brother, Anson Adams III, and two sisters from his
father's first marriage. Mount's great-great-great grandfather was a
Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War.Mount attended Dickson
County High School in Dickson, Tennessee, Sewanee: The University of
the South, and Columbia University.In 1998, Anson Mount starred in
Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, for which he was honored by the
Drama League.
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