Anson Mount

Anson Adams Mount IV (born February 25, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Cullen Bohannon in the AMC western drama series Hell on Wheels, as Jim Steele on the short-lived NBC series Conviction, as the Marvel Comics superhero Black Bolt in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise (appearing in Inhumans and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), and as Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Discovery (2019) and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present).[1][2] He also starred opposite Britney Spears in the coming-of-age film Crossroads (2002). He is a member of the board of directors of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence)

In 1998, Mount starred in Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi, for which he was honored by the Drama League.[8]

In 2008, Mount made the finalist list for the American Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center in 2008 for his full-length play Atomic City, and won the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize for his one-act play Love Liza?[9] In 2010 he appeared in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company. In 2018 he appeared in Robert O’Hara’s Mankind at Playwrights Horizons.