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Birthday: 20th July 1948
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Birthplace: Alexandria, Louisiana
Height: 6 feet 1 inch
Children: 1 child
Spouse: married
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Brief Bio on acting Career:
Muse Watson attended Louisiana Tech on a music stipend for two years before transferring to Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, where he performed for the first time on stage as Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew". During and after his years at Berea, he worked in outdoor dramas, dinner theaters, and small repertory groups. His theater credits include Hamlet in "Hamlet", Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire", Pale in "Burn This", Cervantes in "Man of La Mancha", and directed "Ain't MisBehavin". In 1989, with a new commitment to film, Muse began pursuing roles in feature film. By 2004, he had appeared in 40 feature films.
See more at his official website http://www.musewatson.com/index.html






(Please put in chronological order starting with the newest first.)

Movie/Stage/Television (Indicate which one)	Title	Role	Dates / Number of Episodes	Episode # and Titles (If applicable)
Television	NCIS	Mike Franks	(2006-)	10 episodes
Television	Prison Break	Charles Westmoreland		18 episodes
Television	American Gothic	Wash Sutpen		"Damned if You Don't"
Television	Close to Home	Bob Peters		"A Father's Story"
Television	Criminal Minds	Mickey Bates		"Revelations"
Television	CSI	Station Yard Controller		"Who & What"
Television	Ghost Whisperer	Milt Charles		"Delia's First Ghost"
Television	JAG	Admiral Fessenden		"Innocence"
Television	Walker, Texas Ranger	Freddy Forbes	1999	2 episodes: "Team Cherokee 1 & 2"
Movie	Down in the Valley	Bill Snr.	2006
Movie	Iowa	Sherriff Walker	2006
Movie	House of Grimm		2005
Movie	Frankenfish	Elmer	2004
Movie	Dead Birds		2004
Movie	A Day Without a Mexican	Louis McClaire.	2004
Movie	Season of the Hunted		2003
Movie	Hollywood Vampyr	Professor Fulton	2002
Movie	American Outlaws		2001
Movie	Songcatcher		2000
Movie	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me		1999
Movie	From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money		1999
Movie	I Still Know What You Did Last Summer		1998
Movie	If I Die Before I Wake		1998
Movie	Break Up		1998
Movie	Heartwood		1998
Movie	I Know What You Did Last Summer	Benjamin Willis	1997
Movie	Rosewood		1997
Movie	Assassins		1995
Movie	Something to Talk About	Hank Corrigan	1995
Movie	Sommersby		1993
Movie	The Handmaid's Tale		1990

Before Muse was famous:

He acted on stage, worked as a purchasing agent in steel and alloy manufacturing, was a manufacturer's rep, and drove rigs for movie transportation. Appeared in a couple of films doing vehicular stunts.

Interests/hobbies:

"I used to fish, hunt, ride horses, 4 wheelin', trail rides, hiking and camping.....and then my daughter was born. I love being with her and it won't be long before we will be fishing, 4 wheelin, hiking together." Muse Watson

Memorable Quotes:

I'm sixteen years sober after looking the devil right square in the face and have had brain surgery, heart and lung surgery and back surgery. My philosophy is that life is about facing your fears. If you want to scare somebody? You may wanta try somebody else. (about being dyslexic and having any tricks to help memorize dialogue) I go to sleep with my lines playing on a tape machine that has a repeat function. I wake up totally off book. And when people send me scripts, my wife reads them and tells me whether I want to do them or not. Are movies worse today and TV better...or is the audience so impatient, so immature, so interested in instant gratification that only the quick cuts of television are satisfying the public's need for stimulation? When is the last time you talked with someone that you weren't interrupting their sentences and they weren't interrupting yours? No one waits for an entire line of dialog in his or her personal lives. No wonder their perfect entertainment has become out of focus, ill lit, quick cuts at a pace that is faster than their real lives. Film has nuance...the audience doesn't have time for nuance anymore. With film you have to go to a movie theatre and sit and watch someone have a conversation. In TV, 10 minutes after the broadcast you have 100,000 posts on your web site from the audience telling you what they liked and what they didn't like. In the next episode, you get what you want or the show is cancelled. (talking about what convinced Muse to play in "House of Grimm") The barn needed a roof.

Trivia:

In 1982, Muse Watson won Best Play at a state wide competition of penitentiaries with his cast of Lonestar. Muse Watson taught acting at a Georgia State Penitentiary. Muse Watson left Berea College before graduation to work the dinner theater circuit performing in Man of LaMancha and Humbug and Holly. After two years of attending Louisiana Tech, Muse Watson was asked to leave because of behavioral issues and was failing academically. Muse Watson's father was diagnosed with diabetes and died of complications at 36 years of age. Muse Watson went to Bolton High School. When Muse Watson was thirteen, he was diagnosed with dyslexia. Muse Watson is the youngest of four children. Muse was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2000 by Berea College in Berea, Kentucky where Muse started his acting career. Muse Watson played Parley Gentry in "Songcatcher" which won a special jury prize for 'ensemble acting' at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000. Legendary V.P. of Casting for Warner Brothers, Marion Dougherty encouraged him to move to Hollywood and arranged for his first Hollywood agent in 1994. Muse Watson first went on stage while attending Berea College in Kentucky to perform as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare. Muse Watson has a daughter. Muse guest starred on a episode of ICarly as a bull riding instructor.

Charity Work:

CHIME Charter Surfer's Healing

Awards or Nominations:

Sundance 2000: Grand Jury Award for Ensemble Acting in "Songcatcher"

Links:

Muse Watson

Muse on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/musewatson

Fan Club on Yahoo: musewatsonclub : Muse Watson Club

Link to NCIS Moderators' Blog entry on Muse Watson

Blog Entry: Muse Watson as Mike Franks

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