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Jeff Perry (born August 16, 1955) is an American actor of stage, television, and film. He currently stars in the ABC political drama ''Scandal''. ==Career== At an early age, his elder sister Jo took him to an audition at Ravinia Festival where American Conservatory Theater was staging Luigi Pirandello's ''Six Characters in Search of an Author''. He auditioned and got the part. He is one of the original co-founders of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. Perry and schoolmates Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney started the company in one end of the cafeteria at Highland Park High School and later moved it to a small space in the Immaculate Conception Church in Highland Park. It has since grown into a notable national theater company whose alumni include John Malkovich, John Mahoney, and Joan Allen. Perry remains an Executive Artistic Director along with co-founders Kinney and Sinise. After spending nearly two decades with Steppenwolf, Perry made the move to Los Angeles in 1987 to pursue film and television work. Perry is perhaps best known as Inspector Harvey Leek (a diehard Grateful Dead fan) on the Don Johnson police show ''Nash Bridges''. He was a tough superior to Kevin Bacon's detective in the thriller ''Wild Things'' (1998). Many of his television and film credits include ''The Human Stain'' (2003), ''Hard Promises'' (1991) and ''The Grifters'' (1990) as well as appearances on ''My So-Called Life'' (1994), ''The West Wing'' (1999), ''The Practice'' (2003), ''Lost'' (2005), ''Cold Case'' (2006), ''Raines'' (2007), and several episodes of ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2005) as Meredith Grey's father. He replaced John Billingsley in the role of Terrence Steadman in the critically acclaimed TV show ''Prison Break''. Perry has also been in multiple stage productions. These include ''Time of your Life'' (in San Francisco and Seattle), ''Grapes of Wrath'' (Broadway and London), and ''The Caretaker'' (Broadway). He starred in the Tracy Letts play ''August: Osage County'' on Broadway, which originated at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Jeff Perry )〕 In 2012, he appeared Off Broadway playing Christopher, the aggressive father in an intellectual, though dysfunctional, British family, in the U.S. premiere of the award-winning play ''Tribes'' by Nina Raine. As of 2012, Perry starred in the ABC drama series ''Scandal'' as Cyrus Beene. The series debuted on April 5, 2012 as a mid-season replacement in the 2011–12 television season. The series was created by Shonda Rhimes and is currently in its fifth season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff Perry (American actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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