Charles Parnell (actor)

Charles Parnell is an American actor. He is best known for the role of Rear Admiral Solomon "Warlock" Bates in the film Top Gun: Maverick (2022). He was the second actor to portray Police Chief Derek Frye on All My Children (2004–2008).

Early life

Parnell was born and raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. He attended high school at the Kenwood Academy, and trained as an actor at the Piven Theatre Workshop in nearby Evanston. He relocated to New York in 1994 before eventually settling in Los Angeles.^[1]

Career

Before taking the role of Derek Frye, Parnell played Achilles in Iphigeneia at Aulis, a play by Euripides translated and adapted by Kenneth Cavander at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.^{[citation needed]}

Parnell took over the role of Frye on All My Children, previously played by actor William Christian. He joined the cast of the show on September 8, 2005, and made his final appearance on September 24, 2007. He voices Jefferson Twilight on Cartoon Network's The Venture Bros..

Other appearances include the role of Master Chief Russell "Russ" Jeter on the TNT show The Last Ship from 2014 to 2018, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), its sequel Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025), and The Killer (2023).

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

References

1. ^ Quaranta, Cadence (May 31, 2022). "Chicago's Charles Parnell rises through the acting ranks to a big-time role alongside Tom Cruise". The Chicago Sun-Times
2. ^ "Seven NAACP Image Awards for PARIAH". Focus Features. January 19, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
3. ^ "Nominations Announced for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®". Screen Actors Guild. January 10, 2024. Retrieved January 10, 2024.

External links

• Charles Parnell (actor) on Twitter
• Charles Parnell at IMDb