Paul Sparks
Also Known As: Πολ Σπαρκς
Biography: Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his role as Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire and for his Primetime Emmy Award-nominated role as Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. He has also appeared in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), and Stealing Cars (2015).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Birthday: October 16, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 167564
IMDb-Id: nm0817027
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Doris
Overview: Doris is stranded in a small boat off the coast of a desolate winter beach town. The water is rough and cold, and Doris is in need of immediate medical attention. A short film by Sean Durkin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-29
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Return
Overview: Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-10
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Mud
Overview: Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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The Understudy
Overview: A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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Sparrows Dance
Overview: A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows, she is forced to call in the plumber.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-23
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Trust Me
Overview: In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-20
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Blackbird
Overview: In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-12
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Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Overview: When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from sight. And he doesn't count on taking a turn that leaves him alone to wander aimlessly for nearly two weeks in the empty mountain wilderness.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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The Bikeriders
Overview: After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-19
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Eric LaRue
Overview: Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-10
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Please Give
Overview: In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-30
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Stealing Cars
Overview: A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-05
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Midnight Special
Overview: A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-18
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All the Birds Have Flown South
Overview: After the death of his overbearing Mother, a sheltered man attempts to win the affection of a degenerate waitress by caring for her terminally ill and abusive husband. Soon all three lives begin to unravel as obsession and disease consume them all.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-10
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Thoroughbreds
Overview: Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Parkland
Overview: November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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The Missing Person
Overview: John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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Rachel Getting Married
Overview: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-03
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The Greatest Showman
Overview: The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-20
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In the Radiant City
Overview: A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Long Way Back Home
Overview: A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-20
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Human Capital
Overview: Ian begins a relationship with Drew's daughter, who works in the financial sector. The couple gets involved in a tragic accident that will change their lives forever. At the same time, the accident has a major impact on both their families who, despite the class difference, cross paths.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-17
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Edge of Darkness
Overview: As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-28
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Buried Child
Overview: Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group, directed by Scott Elliott. Dodge (Ed Harris) and Halie (Amy Madigan) try to hang on to their farmland and their sanity while caring for their two wayward grown sons (Rich Sommer and Paul Sparks). When their grandson (Nat Wolff) arrives no one seems to recognize him and a secret must be kept.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-28
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Hands That Bind
Overview: A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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The Lovebirds
Overview: A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-22
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Synecdoche, New York
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Deception
Overview: As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-24
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Headspace
Overview: 25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-18
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Afterschool
Overview: A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Overview: After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a surreal journey as they attempt to track down the perpetrators.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-01
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