Actor

Jon
Tenney

Previously at the Geffen: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People and David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. Broadway credits include: the Tony Award-winning revival of The Heiress (opposite Cherry Jones), Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Sweet Sue, as well as the national tour of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing directed by Mike Nichols. Off-Broadway credits include: Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire (Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center Theater), John Guare’s Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater), John Patrick Shanley’s Beggars in the House of Plenty and David Marshall Grant’s Current Events (Manhattan Theatre Club), Beth Henley’s Impossible Marriage (opposite Holly Hunter at Roundabout Theatre Company) and Tuesdays with Morrie (opposite Alvin Epstein at New York Stage & Film and The Minetta Lane Theatre). Television credits include seven seasons starring opposite Kyra Sedgwick on TNT’s The Closer, reprising his role in Major Crimes and directing episodes of both. Tenney played Vice President Andrew Nichols on ABC’s Scandal and recurs on Amazon’s Hand of God. Film credits include You Can Count on Me, Tombstone, Fools Rush In, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World and Rabbit Hole. A Vassar graduate and trained at The Juilliard School, Tenney will next be seen in the film adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan.