Biography
Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his role as Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire and for his Primetime Emmy Award-nominated role as Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. He has also appeared in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), and Stealing Cars (2015).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Eric LaRue
2025
as Steve Calhan
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a n...

Lost on a Mountain in Maine
2024
as Mr. Donald Fendler
When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to f...

The Bikeriders
2024
as Gary Rogue Leader
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerou...

Giving Birth to a Butterfly
2023
as Daryl
After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a surreal journey as they attempt to track down the per...

Hands That Bind
2021
as Andy Hollis
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.

Human Capital
2020
as Jon
Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change thei...

The Lovebirds
2020
as Moustache
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear th...

Long Way Back Home
2018
as Blundell
A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucer...

Thoroughbreds
2018
as Mark
Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, ...

The Greatest Showman
2017
as James Gordon Bennett
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Buried Child
2016
as Tilden
Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group, directed by Scott Elliott. Dodge (Ed Harris) and Halie (Amy Madigan) try t...

In the Radiant City
2016
as Michael Yurley
A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 ...
All the Birds Have Flown South
2016
as Stephen
After the death of his overbearing Mother, a sheltered man attempts to win the affection of a degenerate waitress by caring for her terminally ill and...

Stealing Cars
2016
as Conrad Sean Lewis
A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system.

Midnight Special
2016
as Agent Miller
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

Parkland
2013
as Harry McCormick
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This f...

Sparrows Dance
2013
as Wes
A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows, she ...

Mud
2013
as Carver
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family an...

Trust Me
2013
as Ray
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a sche...

The Understudy
2012
as Bobby
A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

Return
2011
as Ed
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

Please Give
2010
as Blind Date
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Edge of Darkness
2010
as Northampton Police Detective
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his...

Afterschool
2009
as Detective Eclisse
A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

The Missing Person
2009
as Gus Papitos
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone h...

Synecdoche, New York
2008
as Derek
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as ...

Rachel Getting Married
2008
as 12-Step Meeting Member
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

Deception
2008
as Detective Burke
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chanc...

Blackbird
2007
as Baylis
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. ...

Doris
2006
as Hubert
Doris is stranded in a small boat off the coast of a desolate winter beach town. The water is rough and cold, and Doris is in need of immediate medica...

Headspace
2005
as Jason
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so...
The Mortuary Assistant
N/A
as Raymond Delver
Rebecca Owens, a recent mortuary science graduate takes a night shift job at River Fields Mortuary. Initially, the job seems straightforward — embalmi...
The Stalemate
N/A
A robber and sheriff, out of bullets and far from town, must negotiate their way out of an absurd, unending chase in the Old West.