Who’s Who: Keith Carradine
KEITH CARRADINE (Dr. Farquhar) is best known to New York theatre audiences for his Tony Award nominated performance as the title character in The Will Rogers Follies. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Foxfire with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and most recently appeared as Lawrence in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Imperial Theater. Recent television roles include Wild Bill Hickock in HBO's Deadwood, FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy on Showtime's Dexter and Agent Carl McGowan in the new season of NUMB3RS on CBS. Carradine appeared with brothers David and Robert as the Younger brothers in Walter Hill’s film The Long Riders. He appeared again for Hill in Southern Comfort. His first notable film appearance was in director Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller. He went on to play Bowie in Altman's Thieves Like Us and one of the principal characters, callow, womanizing folk singer Tom Frank, in Altman's critically acclaimed movie Nashville. His song from that movie, "I'm Easy", was a top-ten Billboard hit and Carradine won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song for writing the tune. He starred opposite Harvey Keitel in Ridley Scott's The Duellists. He has worked several times in the offbeat films of Altman's protégé Alan Rudolph, playing a disarmingly candid madman in Choose Me an incompetent petty criminal in Trouble in Mind and an American artist in 1920s Paris in The Moderns. He also had a cameo role as Will Rogers in Rudolph's Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Carradine co-starred with Daryl Hannah as homicidal sociopath John Netherwood in the thriller The Tie That Binds. Other notable works include Emperor of the North with Lee Marvin, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, the CBS mini-series Chiefsand the video for Madonna's single "Material Girl." He recently completed filming an as-yet untitled dark comedy with Hope Davis, Selma Blair and Dermot Mulroney, and Peacock with Cillian Murphy, Susan Sarandon and Ellen Paige.
