Charles Parnell Height, Weight, Age, Facts, Biography

Charles Parnell Quick InfoHeight 6 ft 1 in Weight 79 kg Date of Birth October 26, 1964 Zodiac Sign Scorpio Eye Color Dark Brown

Charles Parnell is an American actor, voice actor, and stage artist who is known for playing Derek Frye in the television soap opera All My Children, Rear Admiral Solomon “Warlock” Bates in the action drama film Top Gun: Maverick, Cyrus in the crime mystery drama television series Briarpatch, District Attorney Buckner in the HBO dark comedy crime drama series Barry, and CMDCM Russ Jeter, USN in the TNT action-drama series The Last Ship. In addition to that, Charles Parnell has also been cast in a variety of other shows and movies such as Law & Order, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Hack, Mississippi Damned, The Mandalorian, The Venture Bros., Constantine, Without a Trace, CSI: Miami, Crash, Bones, A Million Little Pieces, Lie to Me, Longmire, Pariah, Mind the Gap, NCIS, Spiderhead, Fringe, The Forgotten, The Education of Charlie Banks, North Woods Law, Kindred, Better Things, Grand Crew, Diminished Capacity, and Everyone’s Hero.

Born Name

Charles Parnell

Nick Name

Charles

Sun Sign

Scorpio

Born Place

Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Residence

Los Angeles, California, United States

Nationality

Occupation

Actor, Stage Artist, Voice Actor

Build

Athletic

Charles Parnell in a black-and-white selfie in May 2022

Height

6 ft 1 in or 185.5 cm

Weight

79 kg or 174 lbs

Race / Ethnicity

Black

Hair Color

Salt and Pepper

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Deep-set eyes

Brand Endorsements

Charles Parnell was cast in a “Straight Talk Commercial” in 2014.

Charles Parnell as seen in February 2022

Charles Parnell Facts

He made his first theatrical film appearance as John McCabe in the 2004 multi-story comedy-drama film Mind the Gap. His co-stars for the project included , Eric Schaeffer, Jill Sobule, John Heard, , and Alan King.
Charles Parnell played Assistant District Attorney Worsheck in the 2007 drama film The Education of Charlie Banks, starring , , , Gloria Votsis, and Chris Marquette.
From 2012 to 2015, he was cast as the narrator of the reality television series North Woods Law.
Along with , , , , Marissa Neitling, Christina Elmore, Jocko Sims, John Pyper-Ferguson, , Bren Foster, and others, Charles Parnell co-starred as Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell “Russ” Jeter (previously served as Nathan James’s senior enlisted sailor and unofficial chaplain) in the post-apocalyptic action-drama television series The Last Ship from 2014 to 2018.
He was seen as Miles Davis in the 2018 psychological drama film A Million Little Pieces, based on the 2003 semi-fictional book of the same name by James Frey.
Charles Parnell brought to life the character of RADM Solomon “Warlock” Bates (the commander of the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center and an acquaintance of Maverick’s) in the 2026 action drama film Top Gun: Maverick, starring , , , , , , Ed Harris, and . The film serves as a sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun.
In 2026, Parnell appeared as District Attorney Buckner (the district attorney for Los Angeles) in the 4th season of the dark comedy crime drama television series Barry.
He played Achilles in a production of Iphigeneia at Aulis (a play by Euripides translated and adapted by Kenneth Cavander) at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.
Charles Parnell has done voiceover work for several video games including The Warriors, Manhunt 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, The Crew, Avengers, and Mass Effect: Andromeda.

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