Paul Sparks

Paul Sparks is the kind of actor I treasure: a face you half-recognise attached to performances you cannot forget. Trained at NYU's Tisch and raised in Marlow, Oklahoma, he has quietly become one of television's most reliable character actors, from Mickey Doyle in Boardwalk Empire to the writer Thomas Yates in House of Cards. He rarely leads, but his presence reliably raises the ceiling of whatever he is in. I admire actors who serve the story rather than their own profile, and Sparks does it with an unshowy precision that, to me, is its own kind of stardom.

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Name (English)

Paul Sparks

Name (Japanese)

ポール・スパークス

Reading

ぽーる・すぱーくす

Born

October 16, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Lawton, Oklahoma, United States

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Sparks
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153714

Tags

• Oklahoma
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

October 16, 2026

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