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Bill Camp

Bill Camp
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About

Bill Camp (born 1964, Massachusetts) is an American character actor trained at Juilliard who built his career largely on New York stages. He earned a 2016 Tony nomination for Arthur Miller's The Crucible and an Emmy nomination for HBO's The Night Of. On screen he has appeared in Lincoln, 12 Years a Slave, Joker and Nightmare Alley, as well as TV series such as The Queen's Gambit, Presumed Innocent and Zero Day.

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Oscar nomination (films he appeared in, through January 2020)
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Emmy nomination for his roles (The Night Of, Presumed Innocent)
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upcoming films and series in production

What's new

  • 2025-09

    Bill Camp participated in the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony as a nominee for his role in the series Presumed Innocent.

  • 2025-07

    Washington Post published a profile of the actor who over the past year played roles in the series Sirens, Zero Day, The Gilded Age, and Presumed Innocent.

  • 2026-05

    The actor joined the cast of the thriller Turpentine directed by Craig Zobel alongside Melissa McCarthy.

  • 2026

    Camp has a number of other projects in production, including the film Matchbox: The Movie and the series Lazarus for Apple TV.

Tracks

Joker (2019)role of Detective Garrity, film with 11 Oscar nominations
The Queen's Gambit (2020)role of chess mentor in hit Netflix miniseries
Presumed Innocent (2024)role of Prosecutor Raymond Horgan, Emmy nomination
Zero Day (2025)political thriller on Netflix with Robert De Niro
The Night Of (2016)role of detective, Emmy nomination

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