Chance Kelly is the busiest actor you’ve never heard of.
Chance played football for Ithaca College but, after losing a bet and in spite of a profound fear of public speaking, he entered an acting class. He was so terrified that he gave his first monologue to a brick wall.
He played the role of Lt. Col. Stephen “Godfather” Ferrando in HBO’s Generation Kill. On Memorial Day 2009, he was appointed Honorary Marine by the Marine Corps League (Cpl. Philip A. Reynolds Detachment – 203, Freehold, New Jersey) for his work in Generation Kill. Since then his acting career has been on fire.
From working on ‘American Sniper’ to ‘House of Cards’ to most recently Fox’s ‘Aquarius’, Chance Kelly has essentially cemented his role in Hollywood for playing the stereotypical cop, soldier and security guard. In an interview with the NYPost, the actor revealed how he became the busiest actor in Hollywood and it’s pretty inspiring.
“It sort of made sense to me,” Kelly says of the role. “I understood the humor and I felt like I knew these guys. I’ve played enough cops and good guys and bad guys, and [guys] anywhere in-between, to see where the writers were coming from.
“And they actually told me to grow my hair for a change,” he says, laughing. “I don’t hear that that much. It’s the longest hair I’ve had in a long time.”
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