Known for Acting
Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his role as Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire and for his Primetime Emmy Award-nominated role as Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. He has also appeared in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), and Stealing Cars (2015).
Born
October 16, 1971 (age 54)
Birthplace
Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Filmography
32 films, 20 shows
A Company of Thieves
A Company of Thieves
2026
country: United States
A trio of petty criminals embark on a string of bizarre heists and harebrained schemes across New York City — including the attempted acquisition of a million-dollar Prince Albert. Along the way, their misadventures collide with a struggling tech company whose employees face layoffs amid the rise of artificial intelligence.


The Mortuary Assistant
2026 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Rebecca Owens, a recent mortuary science graduate takes a night shift job at River Fields Mortuary. Initially, the job seems straightforward — embalming bodies, completing paperwork, and keeping things tidy. But once Rebecca starts working the night shift, things take a dark turn.


Eric LaRue
2025 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.


Lost on a Mountain in Maine
2024 · 1h 55m
country: United States
When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from sight. And he doesn't count on taking a turn that leaves him alone to wander aimlessly for nearly two weeks in the empty mountain wilderness.


The Bikeriders
2024 · 1h 56m
country: United States
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.


Hands That Bind
2023 · 1h 56m
country: Canada
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.


Giving Birth to a Butterfly
2023 · 1h 17m
country: United States
After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a surreal journey as they attempt to track down the perpetrators.


Human Capital
2020 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change their lives forever. At the same time, the accident has a major impact on both their families who, despite the class difference, cross paths.


The Lovebirds
2020 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.


Thoroughbreds
2018 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.


The Greatest Showman
2017 · 1h 45m
country: United States
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.


Buried Child
2016 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group. Dodge and Halie try to hang on to their farmland and their sanity while caring for their two wayward grown sons. When their grandson arrives, no one seems to recognize him and a secret must be kept.


In the Radiant City
2016 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 years ago.
All the Birds Have Flown South
All the Birds Have Flown South
2016 · 1h 38m
country: Unknown
After the death of his overbearing Mother, a sheltered man attempts to win the affection of a degenerate waitress by caring for her terminally ill and abusive husband. Soon all three lives begin to unravel as obsession and disease consume them all.


Stealing Cars
2016 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system.


Midnight Special
2016 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.


Parkland
2013 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.


Sparrows Dance
2013 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows, she is forced to call in the plumber.


Mud
2013 · 2h 10m
country: United States
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.


Trust Me
2013 · 1h 30m
country: United States
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.


The Understudy
2012 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.


Return
2011 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.


Please Give
2010 · 1h 30m
country: United States
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.


Edge of Darkness
2010 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.


Afterschool
2009 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.


The Missing Person
2009 · 1h 35m
country: United States
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.


Synecdoche, New York
2008 · 2h 4m
country: United States
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.


Rachel Getting Married
2008 · 1h 53m
country: United States
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.


Deception
2008 · 1h 47m
country: Spain
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.


Blackbird
2007 · 1h 48m
country: Unknown
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.


Doris
2006 · 23m
country: United States
Doris is stranded in a small boat off the coast of a desolate winter beach town. The water is rough and cold, and Doris is in need of immediate medical attention. A short film by Sean Durkin.


Headspace
2005 · 1h 29m
country: United States
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.