Jay Huguley

Jay Huguley
Born	(1966-07-26) July 26, 1966 Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present

Jay Huguley (born July 26, 1966) is an American film, TV and theatre actor, best known for playing Whit Peyton on Brothers & Sisters (2006–2007), Will Bransom on Treme (2012–2013), Jimmy Ledoux on True Detective (2014) and David on The Walking Dead (2015).

Early life and education

Huguley was born in Englewood, New Jersey and raised in nearby Tenafly, New Jersey, the youngest of three boys, to father Arthur W. Huguley, III, a commodities trader and president of Westway Trading Corporation, and mother Katherine McCrae Yarborough Huguley, a housewife.

As a child, Huguley spent his teenage years attending the Peddie School, a boarding school in Hightstown, New Jersey, from where he later graduated. He spent a year abroad at the University of London studying political science and graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a double major in political science and communications.

Huguley studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, under the aegis of Anna Strasberg, and at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles, under the world-renowned teacher Milton Katselas.

Career

Prior to his professional acting career, Huguley was a fashion model. Following college, he was discovered working as a lifeguard, when someone working in fashion in New York suggested he should try modeling. Two Polaroids were taken of him, and he was brought into New York City. Soon after. he received a contract with Wilhelmina Models, which sent him to London, Paris, Milan and Sydney, Australia.

Huguley lived in Paris throughout the early-1990s, where he worked as a model for brands like Armani, Valentino, Zegna and Romeo Gigli. He first realized his passion for acting while taking a directing class in college, where one of his assignments was to audition for the school play to get an idea of what actors experience in their process of attempting to score acting roles. He got the part of the Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Huguley then moved back to the United States, where he began to work regularly in theatre and studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute. He moved to Los Angeles to do a play directed by Lee's widow, Anna Strasberg.

In his earliest appearances on television, Huguley starred in smaller roles on Mad TV, The Norm Show, Walker, Texas Ranger, Providence, and Strong Medicine before getting more recurring roles in TV shows such as Summerland, and Alias. He also starred in 2010 as Richard Hightower on the long-running soap opera, The Young and the Restless.

Huguley is best known for playing David on AMC's The Walking Dead, and Jimmy Ledoux on HBO's True Detective. Huguley also played Will Branson on seasons 3 and 4 of the HBO series Treme, and Whit Peyton in the ABC TV series, Brothers & Sisters.

Huguley has also played recurring characters in ABC Family's Ravenswood (a spin-off to Pretty Little Liars), and in the CW's Star-Crossed. He's also guest-starred in episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Red Band Society, Nashville, Breaking In, Drop Dead Diva, and Army Wives.

In 2013, he appeared as Sheriff H.P. Voorhies, the man who negotiated the freedom of Solomon Northup, in Steve McQueen's film 12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, and Michael Fassbender.

In 2015, he appeared in Helen Hunt's Ride, and starred as Jonah Bock in Sunny in the Dark, a feature film written by Courtney Ware, for which he took home the award for "Best Actor" from the Northeast Film Festival.

In 2016, Huguley appeared in the horror film, Abattoir, by the man credited for furthering the Saw franchise, Darren Lynn Bousman.

In 2018, Huguley had roles in Heart, Baby and as William Henry Moody, the prosecuting attorney in the infamous Lizzie Borden trial in the film Lizzie alongside Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart.

In 2008, Huguley starred in David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony Award-winning play Rabbit Hole at the Skylight Theatre. About his performance, the Los Angeles Times said, "Jay Huguley dwells inside the play's contradictions and connects us to its anguished, buoyant heart." In 2009, Huguley played the lead role of Henry in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing at Los Angeles' Skylight Theatre.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Vampire Vixens from Venus	Drained Driver
	Call Girl	Arthur Benton
1998	Brina's Problem	Michael
1999	Temptations	Tanner
2003	Melvin Goes to Dinner	Johnny Extra
	Saved by the Rules	Mike
2005	Silent Men	Richard 'Sadhu'
	Stress, Orgasms, and Salvation	Reverend James
2012	Hijacked	Tim
2013	Hot Guys with Guns	Bruce Lieberman
	12 Years a Slave	Sheriff H.P. Voorhies
2014	Patient Z	Dr. Vincent Gersh
	When the Game Stands Tall	Coach Towne	Uncredited
	Ride	Co-worker
2015	Sunny in the Dark	Jonah
2016	Carbon Canyon	Mr. Loris
	Abattoir	Felix
2017	The Hammer	Officer Paul
2018	Lizzie	William Henry Moody
	Tales from the Hood 2	Fitch Measpine
	Almost Home	Lexus John
2019	The Hacks	Kevin
	From Zero to I Love You	Eric Dupont
	Killerman	James Manning
2020	The Glorias	TV Interviewer
	The Eagle and the Albatross	Dean
	The Fox Hunter	Edwin McCushing
	Surviving in L.A.	Mark
2021	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Jimmy Swaggart
2022	The Walk	Riley
2024	On Swift Horses	Sonny
	The Ghost Trap	Paul
2025	Blind River	Hooper Miller
TBA	The Panic	Charles Schwab	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Mad TV	Cop	Episode: "Vivica A. Fox"
2000	The Norm Show	Man	Episode: "I've Got a Crush on You"
	Walker, Texas Ranger	Detective Rogers	Episode: "Deadly Situation"
2001	Dexter's Laboratory	Hokochoo	2 episodes
2002	That '80s Show	Bartender	3 episodes
	Providence	Georgeous Doctor	Episode: "It's Raining Men"
	Meet the Marks	Jay 'the groom'	Episode #1.1
2003	Boomtown	Chris Hamlin	Episode: "The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang"
2004	Strong Medicine	Donald Murray	Episode: "Graft"
2005	Summerland	Doug Fox	3 episodes
2005, 2006	Alias	Dr. Peter Marks	2 episodes
2006	Medium	Larry Greene / Best Man	Episode: "Knowing Her"
	Cold Case	Joe Livingston (1979)	Episode: "The Key"
	Thick and Thin	Gerard	Episode: "Jen the Model"
2006–2007	Brothers & Sisters	Whit Peyton	6 episodes
2007	What About Brian	Martin First	Episode: "What About the Tangled Web..."
2008	Quarterlife	Arthur	Episode: "Goodbyes"
2010	The Young and the Restless	Richard Hightower	4 episodes
	Dad's Home	Brian Westman	Television film
2011	Drop Dead Diva	Kevin Williams	Episode: "Prom"
2012	Breaking In	Sean Hurley	Episode: "The Legend of Hurley's Gold"
	Army Wives	Dr. Paul Campell	Episode: "Handicap"
2012–2013	Treme	Will Branson	6 episodes
2013	Nashville	Dewey	Episode: "I'm Sorry for You, My Friend"
	The Neighbors	Paul	Episode: "Mother Clubbers"
	Anna Nicole	John Lawfton	Television film
2013–2014	Ravenswood	Tom Beddington	3 episodes
2014	True Detective	Jimmy Ledoux	Episode: "After You've Gone"
	Star-Crossed	Ray Whitehill	4 episodes
	Red Band Society	Sean Fahey	Episode: "So Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want"
2015	CSI: Cyber	Gordon	Episode: "L0M1S"
	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	Young Rebecca's Father	Episode: "I Hope Josh Comes to My Party!"
	The Walking Dead	Dave	3 episodes
2016	The Inspectors	Frank Macom	Episode: "No Good Deed"
	Halt and Catch Fire	Cal Erickson	Episode: "Rules of Honorable Play"
	Rosewood	David B. Jones	Episode: "Boatopsy & Booty"
	The Real O'Neals	Gary	Episode: "The Real Tradition"
2019	The Purge	Defense Attorney	Episode: "Blindspots"
2020	NCIS: New Orleans	Ben Kinnaman	Episode: "Relentless"
2022	Big Sky	Harold Gardiner	Episode: "A Brief History of Crime"
2023	Will Trent	Evan Bernard	Episode: "I'm a Pretty Observant Guy"
	Outer Banks	Sowell	Episode: "The Dark Forest"
	Bookie	Dr. Hegland	Episode: "Beware the Family Jewels"
2024	Lioness	JSOC Commander Dixon	4 episodes
	Found	Alan Allman	Episode #2.19

External links

• Jay Huguley at IMDb
• Profile on TV Guide