Best Guest Stars on Season 6 of "the X Files"
by JohnSlash | created - 22 Nov 2012 | updated - 14 Dec 2012 | PublicIn order from greatest to least.
William B. Davis, Nicholas Lea, Chris Owens, and Mitch Pileggi would be on the list, but they were all credited as 'Also Starring' for this season.
1. John Hawkes
Actor | The Sessions
John Hawkes is an award-winning actor known for crafting memorable performances across a wide range of styles and genres. He will next be seen in the upcoming fourth season of HBO's "True Detective" with Jodie Foster. Previous projects include the indie film "Roving Woman," "The Peanut Butter ...
Phillip Padgett (1 episode)
2. James Pickens Jr.
Actor | Grey's Anatomy
James Pickens Jr. was born October 26, 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio. While attending college at Bowling Green State University, Pickens began pursuing an interest in acting. He graduated from BGSU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1976. Afterwards, Pickens began work on the stage at the Roundabout Theatre...
FBI Deputy Director Alvin Kersh (6 episodes)
3. Veronica Cartwright
Actress | Alien
Born in Bristol, England, Veronica is the older sister of the popular child actress Angela Cartwright. In her early career, Veronica was cast in a number of popular movies such as William Wyler's The Children's Hour (1961), Spencer's Mountain (1963) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). As such,...
Cassandra Spender (2 episodes)
4. Laurie Holden
Actress | The Boys
Laurie Holden is best known to audiences as Andrea in the hit AMC drama series The Walking Dead. However, Laurie's big acting break came much earlier in her career, starring with Vanessa Redgrave in the critically acclaimed TNT mini-series Young Catherine. Since that auspicious beginning, she has ...
Marita Covarrubias (1 episode)
5. Jesse L. Martin
Actor | Rent
Jesse Martin was born Jesse Lamont Watkins in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountain range. His mother, Virginia Price, was a college career counselor. His father, Jesse Reed Watkins, was a truck driver. His parents divorced when he was very young. His mother then moved his family to Buffalo, New York. He ...
Josh Exley (1 episode)
6. Bruce Campbell
Actor | Bubba Ho-Tep
In 1979 with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, The Evil Dead (1981), in which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where it became the best-selling ...
Wayne Weinsider (1 episode)
7. Raymond J. Barry
Actor | Just Married
Raymond J. Barry was born in New York, and attended Brown University, where he was a star athlete in football, basketball, and track. While there, he earned his degree in Philosophy and as a senior, was cast in the stage production of "Picnic," where he played a football player. He then entered the...
Senator Richard Matheson (1 episode)
8. Lily Tomlin
Actress | Nashville
Lily Tomlin was born September 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, to Lillie Mae (Ford) and Guy Tomlin, who moved to Michigan from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Her mother was a nurse's aide and her father was a factory worker. She graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1957, and ...
Lydia (1 episode)
9. Bryan Cranston
Actor | Breaking Bad
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were German, and his father was of Irish, German, and Austrian-Jewish ancestry. He was raised in the Canoga ...
Patrick Crump (1 episode)
10. Geoffrey Lewis
Actor | The Way of the Gun
Talented and highly capable character actor Geoffrey Lewis, with rustic (sometimes sour-faced) looks, grew up in Rhode Island but was moved out to California at the age of ten. Lewis was very keen on the dramatic arts at high school, but often preferred to put on his own one-man shows rather than ...
Alfred Fellig (1 episode)
11. Carrie Hamilton
Actress | Fame
Carrie Hamilton was born on December 5, 1963 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Fame (1982), Shag (1988) and Tokyo Pop (1988). She was married to Marc Templin. She died on January 20, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pam (1 episode)
12. Edward Asner
Actor | Up
Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...
Maurice (1 episode)
13. Darren McGavin
Actor | A Christmas Story
A remarkably seasoned actor of stage, screen and television, Darren McGavin has notched in excess of 200 performances; however, he is most fondly remembered by cult TV fans as heroic newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak in the classic but short-lived horror TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974). ...
Arthur Dales (1 episode)
14. Michael McKean
Actor | This Is Spinal Tap
McKean was born in New York City at Manhattan Women's Hospital, now part of the Mt. Sinai St. Luke's complex on Amsterdam Avenue. He is the son of Ruth Stewart McKean, a librarian, and Gilbert S. McKean, one of the founders of Decca Records, and was raised in Sea Cliff, New York, on Long Island. ...
Morris Fletcher (3 episodes)
15. Fredric Lehne
Actor | Men in Black
Born in Buffalo, N.Y. but raised in the Garden State, Fredric first appeared in small theater productions at the age of six, and in his teens spent weekends studying at The Neighborhood Playhouse and HB Studios in NYC. During the summer he apprenticed at The Peterborough Players in N.H. - New ...
Young Arthur Dales (1 episode)
16. M. Emmet Walsh
Actor | Blood Simple
Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s.
Michael Emmet Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, to Agnes Katharine (Sullivan) and...
Arthur Dales (1 episode)
17. Signy Coleman
Actress | The X Files
Signy Coleman was born on July 4, 1960 in Ross, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The X-Files (1993), The Young and the Restless (1973) and River Ridge (2012). She was previously married to Thomas Nolan and Vincent Irizarry.
Susanne Modeski (1 episode)
18. Bruce Harwood
Actor | The X Files
Bruce was born in North Vancouver but then moved to Prince Rupert. When he was in elementary school, his family moved to Vernon, British Columbia in the Okanagan Valley, where he lived until going to the University of British Columbia. He met Heather when they were in Junior High School together, ...
John Fitzgerald Byers (4 episodes)
19. Tom Braidwood
Actor | The X Files
Tom Braidwood was born on September 27, 1948 in British Columbia, Canada. He is an assistant director and actor, known for The X Files (1998), Da Vinci's Inquest (1998) and The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008).
Melvin Frohike (5 episodes)
20. Dean Haglund
Actor | The X Files
Dean Haglund was born on July 29, 1965 in Oak Bank, Manitoba, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for The X Files (1998), The X-Files Game (1998) and The X Files: Resist or Serve (2004).
Richard 'Ringo' Langly (5 episodes)
21. Bill Dow
Actor | Cool Runnings
Bill Dow is an award-winning actor and director (and occasional writer) in theatre, film, and television, with scores of credits over a long and varied career. Currently appearing in two hit television series, Bill Dow is a versatile and sought after performer.
As Dr. Lee on Stargate SG-1 (1997), he...
Charles Burk (1 episode)
22. Jeff Gulka
Actor | The X Files
Jeff Gulka was born on October 23, 1986 in British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor, known for The X-Files (1993), Once Upon a Time (2011) and Stan Helsing (2009).
Gibson Praise (1 episode)
23. Arlene Warren
Actress | The X Files
Arlene Warren was born on December 30, 1966. She is an actress, known for The X-Files (1993), The X Files: Resist or Serve (2004) and Profile for Murder (1996). She has been married to Mitch Pileggi since January 1, 1997. They have one child. She was previously married to Dean Warren.
Skinner's Assistant (3 episodes)
24. Brian Thompson
Actor | The Terminator
Brian Earl Thompson was born on August 28, 1959 in Ellensburg, Washington. Raised on the Columbia River in Longview, he learned the value of academics and athletics, as the son of two teachers and the second of six siblings. His interest in acting was first sparked during his senior year of high ...
Alien Bounty Hunter (1 episode)
25. Nora Dunn
Actress | Three Kings
Nora Dunn got her start working at the famous Second City comedy troupe, where she was eventually spotted by Saturday Night Live (1975) casting directors, and she joined the SNL cast (among them Joan Cusack, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller, Randy Quaid, Terry ...
JoAnne Fletcher (2 episodes)
26. Abraham Benrubi
Actor | Christmas Bloody Christmas
Abraham Benrubi was born on October 4, 1969 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022), Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990) and ER (1994).
Big Mike Raskin (1 episode)
27. Silas Weir Mitchell
Actor | Rat Race
Silas Weir Mitchell was born on September 30, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Rat Race (2001), The Whole Ten Yards (2004) and Flags of Our Fathers (2006).
Dougie (1 episode)
28. Joel McKinnon Miller
Actor | Brooklyn Nine-Nine
A native Minnesotan, Joel McKinnon Miller started out studying opera and theatre at University of Minnesota-Duluth. After college, he joined John Houseman's The Acting Company, a classical theatre touring company based in New York City where he spent 3 years (1984-87) touring the US. He then ...
Deputy Greer (1 episode)
29. Valente Rodriguez
Actor | McFarland, USA
Valente Rodriguez was born on February 14, 1961 in Edcouch, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for McFarland, USA (2015), George Lopez (2002) and The Mentalist (2008).
Walter Suarez (1 episode)
30. Jim Beaver
Actor | Deadwood
Jim Beaver is an American character actor, best known for his leading roles on the TV series Deadwood (2004) and Supernatural (2005). Born in Laramie, Wyoming a minister's son, he was raised in and around Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Following high school and a year of college, he joined the ...
Coroner (1 episode)
31. Andrew Robinson
Actor | Hellraiser
Andrew Jordt Robinson was born in New York City and attended the University of New Hampshire, later receiving his B.A. in English from the New School for Social Research in NYC. After graduation, he spent a year in England at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts on a Fulbright Scholarship...
Dr. Ian Detweiler (1 episode)
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