Nick Searcy is an actor, director, author, and documentarian whose distinguished screen career spans independent films, Hollywood blockbusters, and hit television series.  He played General Hoyt in Guillermo del Toro’s Best Picture winner “The Shape of Water,” appeared in the multiple Oscar‑winning “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and his big‑screen highlights include “Moneyball,” “Cast Away,” “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “The Best of Enemies,” and many others.  On television, he is best known as Chief Deputy Art Mullen on FX’s “Justified,” and has also been a series regular on “7 Days,” “American Gothic,” “From the Earth to the Moon,” “Rodney,” and “Easy Money,” with guest roles on shows such as “The West Wing,” “CSI,” “NCIS,” and “Hawaii 5‑0.”

Searcy is an accomplished filmmaker whose second feature as director, “Gosnell,” was released nationwide, and whose first film, “Paradise Falls” (now “Carolina Low”), won six festival awards, including Best Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival.  He has produced and hosted three documentaries—“America America God Shed His Grace on Thee,” “Capitol Punishment,” and “The War on Truth”—which explore the relationship between God and America and the government’s narrative about January 6, 2021.  

His recent and upcoming projects include the westerns “The Old Way” and “Terror on the Prairie,” portraying Secretary of State James Baker in “Reagan,” a lead role across all episodes of Netflix’s limited series “The Perfect Couple,” a recurring role in Amazon’s “Reacher,” Paramount’s feature “The Rescue,” and the Dean Cain–directed “End the Wait.”  He is also the author of the 2024 biography “Justify This: A Career Without Compromise.”