The Biography

Tim Kelleher (born Timothy J. Kelleher, January 9, 1956, in the Bronx, New York) is an American writer, actor, and director who grew up across the five boroughs of New York City, including Staten Island, where he played football for Monsignor Farrell High. After college he entered the Jesuit novitiate but left to return to New York and train as a stage actor under Robert Patterson. He co-founded The Colony Theatre, serving as its artistic director and staging original works including three of his own plays. He was received into the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1995, and is married to Canadian novelist Billie Livingston (since 2008). His most notable film credits include a Cop at Harlem Station in Malcolm X (1992, directed by Spike Lee), a Technician in Independence Day (1996), Argento in The Negotiator (1998, with Samuel L. Jackson and Gene Hackman), Ted Sorensen in Thirteen Days (2000), Bishop in Matchstick Men (2003, with Jason Bateman), Charlie Defao in Flash of Genius (2008), Stewart Goodman in Seven Pounds (2008, with Hugh Jackman), and the Thin Man in Inception (2010, directed by Christopher Nolan). On television he is best known as the resident villain Jim Steele in Dark Skies (1996–1997, 19 episodes) and NCIS Special Agent Christopher Pacci in NCIS (2004–2015, 6 episodes), with additional credits in The West Wing (2005), 24 (2005), Almost Human (2013–2014), Fringe (2012), Supernatural (2016), The Night Agent (2023, 2 episodes), Star Trek: Voyager (1999), Star Trek: Enterprise (2002), and NYPD Blue (1993). He also voiced Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993).