Biography
Shea Whigham (born January 5, 1969) is an American actor best known for portraying Elias "Eli" Thompson in the drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also appeared in the first season of True Detective and the third season of Fargo and in numerous films, including Wristcutters: A Love Story, Take Shelter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, Kong: Skull Island, First Man, Vice, Joker, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One....
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027
as George Stacy (voice)
Miles Morales is now a fugitive on the run from every other Spider in the multiverse, and Gwen and his other friends might not be enough to help him.

F1
2025
as Chip Hart
Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more cha...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
as Briggs
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe —...

Lake George
2024
as Don
Newly released from prison, a white-collar criminal, used to dealing with numbers, is tasked with one last job by his boss: kill the boss’ girlfriend ...

Fancy Dance
2024
as Frank
Following her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki d...

Eileen
2023
as Jim Dunlop
During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she wo...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
as Briggs
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023
as George Stacy (voice)
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the S...

The Gray Man
2022
as Six's Father
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head...

South of Heaven
2021
as Schmidt
Convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now...

Small Engine Repair
2021
as Patrick 'Packie' Hanrahan
The seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden agenda fuelled by the arrival of a privileged young ...

The Gateway
2021
as Parker
A social worker assigned to the care of the daughter of a single mother intervenes when the dad returns from prison and lures them into a life of crim...

F9
2021
as Michael Stasiak
Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: his forsaken brother.

Vampires vs. the Bronx
2020
as Frank Polidori
Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.

The Quarry
2020
as The Man
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's u...

Low Tide
2019
as Sergeant Kent
In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan and his friends Red and Smitty break into vacation homes to ste...

Joker
2019
as Detective Burke
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychop...

To the Stars
2019
as Hank Deerborne
Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.

Vice
2018
as Wayne Vincent
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to poli...

First Man
2018
as Gus Grissom
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July ...

Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
as Dr. Woodbury Laurence
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful ni...

City of Lies
2018
as Frank Lyga
Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case -- the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupa...

Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
as Andy Wheeldon
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

The Catcher Was a Spy
2018
as Joe Cronin
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.

Beirut
2018
as Gary Ruzak
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsibl...

Wheelman
2017
as Motherfucker
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.

Death Note
2017
as James Turner
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

Kong: Skull Island
2017
as Earl Cole
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

Star Trek Beyond
2016
as Teenaxi Leader (voice)
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the...

Term Life
2016
as Matty Miller
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performi...

A Country Called Home
2016
as Cole Edwards
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that ...

Knight of Cups
2015
as Jim
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in...

Lila & Eve
2015
as Holliston
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own h...

Cop Car
2015
as Man
Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.

Non-Stop
2014
as Agent Marenick
Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone...

The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
as Captain Ted Beecham
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infi...

American Hustle
2013
as Carl Elway
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.

Fast & Furious 6
2013
as Michael Stasiak
Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries; Dominic unexpectedly gets sidetracked with facing his presumed d...

Silver Linings Playbook
2012
as Jake Solatano
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life an...

Savages
2012
as Chad
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

Big Miracle
2012
as SAR Pilot Conrad
A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of...

Catch.44
2011
as Billy
The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a ...

Take Shelter
2011
as Dewart
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

This Must Be the Place
2011
as Ernie Ray
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

The Conspirator
2011
as Capt. Cottingham
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she ...

The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
as DJ Corliss
Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty cro...

Machete
2010
as Sniper
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against h...

Barry Munday
2010
as Donald
Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital aft...

Radio Free Albemuth
2010
as Phil
Record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los A...

Blood Creek
2009
as Luke Benny
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
as Justin
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to hi...

Fast & Furious
2009
as Michael Stasiak
When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner. But as they are forced to confront a ...
Source of Pride: The Making of "Pride and Glory"
2009
as Self
Documentary about the chaotic film shooting of "Pride and Glory"

Spooner
2009
as Stan Manfretti
Facing eviction from his parent's home on his 30th birthday, a socially awkward guy meets the girl of his dreams and creates his own rules for growing...

The Killing Room
2009
as Tony Mazzolla
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with...

Splinter
2008
as Dennis Farell
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by lo...

South of Heaven
2008
as Mad Dog Mantee
A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping spree...

Pride and Glory
2008
as Kenny Dugan
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a ...

Wristcutters: A Love Story
2007
as Eugene
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down...

First Snow
2006
as Vincent McClure
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

Lords of Dogtown
2005
as Drake Landon
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of spor...

Faith of My Fathers
2005
as Norris Overly
Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half ...

Man of the House
2005
as Ranger Holt
Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of U...

Water
2004
as Daniel West
On an East Coast Island off season, a woman's naked and badly beaten body washes ashore. Jessy Turner , the sister of the murdered woman, comes to the...

Out of This World
2004
as Russell Reade
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between...

Paradise
2004
as Jeremiah Alcott
Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his...

All the Real Girls
2003
as Tip
In a sleepy little mill town in North Carolina, Paul is the town Romeo. But when his best friend's sister returns home from boarding school, he finds ...

Bad Company
2002
as Agent Wells (Uncredited)
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.

Submerged
2001
as Capt. Oliver Naquin
A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine...

Tigerland
2000
as Pvt. Wilson
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands...
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.