Richard Jenkins

Fair Game
The World

Actor Richard Jenkins has been working steadily in film and TV since the 70s – appearing in movies like Hannah and Her Sisters, Flirting with Disaster, and North Country. But he is probably best known for playing the ghost of patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on HBO’s Six Feet Under. Now he plays a live person in a film called The Visitor. Richard Jenkins speaks with Faith Salie on Fair Game.

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