Clark Middleton

He exemplified triumph over adversity. Born in 1957, Clark Tirsey Middleton was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 4, a disease that he would suffer from throughout his life. “At first it distorted my hands. Then the cortisone I had to take made my cheeks plump. At 8 years old, I lost movement in my neck for life. At 15, my hip broke. I had to go on crutches and then I fell and broke my leg,” he recalled. As a consequence of the evil, he measured only 1.63. 

Despite his physical limitations, when he was a student at the University of Arizona, he introduced himself to the amateur theater group and discovered that he loved acting, to the point that he dropped out and moved to New York, where he would study Drama, first with Uta Hagen and later with Geraldine Page , who would become her mentor. For fifteen years she worked at the New York Shakespeare Festival, taking part in multiple productions on stage. In 1983 she made her television debut, with a brief job at American Playhouse .

In movies, he played a taxi driver in Serendipity , a thug in Sin City , a friend of Michael Madsen ‘s character , who helps him bury his girlfriend, still alive in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 , already a painter in Snowpiercer (Snowbreaker) . He also had a very minor appearance in Birdman (or the unexpected virtue of ignorance) . But Clark Middleton stood out above all on television, as cantankerous boss Glen Carter on The Blacklist , and as the husband of Audrey ( Sherilyn Fenn ) on the third season of Twin Peaks .

On the other hand, Clark Middleton wrote and directed the short My Milonga , and also taught acting for over 20 years in New York City and was a spokesperson for the Arthritis Foundation.