'The Shape of Water' Golden Globe nominee Richard Jenkins on the mastery of Guillermo del Toro and loving Sally Hawkins
by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times
Jan 03, 2018
4 minutes
With 70-odd movies and a couple of dozen TV projects under his belt, Richard Jenkins gets recognized fairly often. Still, when people stop him on the street or tap him on the shoulder on an airplane, they can't always quite place him.
"I get a lot of: 'Did we go to high school together?'" says Jenkins. "They'll say, 'What's your name?' 'Richard.' 'Are you sure?' 'Pretty sure.'"
One of Hollywood's most respected and in-demand character actors, Jenkins first broke out in the early 2000s as the patriarch on the HBO drama series "Six Feet Under" and went on to earn an Oscar nomination for the 2008 film "The Visitor"
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