Peruvian-Scottish actor Henry Ian Cusick began his acting career on stage. On screen, his first few works were in an episode each the television series ‘Taggart’ (1993), ‘Performance’ (1997) and miniseries ‘Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes’ (2001). He was next roped in to portray the recurring role of Jason in BBC One’s medical drama series ‘Casualty’ (2001-2002, 9 episodes). He was then seen in another BBC television drama ‘Two Thousand Acres of Sky’ (2001-2003, as Dr. Ewan Talbot) and Channel 4’s comedy drama ‘The Book Group’ (2003, as Miles Longmuir). In films, he first did an uncredited role in the 2002 movie ‘Possession’ and thereafter bagged the lead role of Jesus Christ in the 2003 epic film ‘The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John’. He also acted in a few television movies including ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ (2002), ‘Carla’ (2003), ‘Perfect Romance’ (2004) and worked in an episode each of tv series ‘Happiness’ (2003), ‘Adventure Inc.’ (2003), ‘Midsomer Murders’ (2004) and ‘Waking the Dead’ (2005).
In 2005, Henry Ian Cusick joined the cast of the American adventure fantasy drama tv series ‘Lost’. Initially, he was signed for the recurring role of Desmond Hume in the 2nd season of this ABC series; however, from 3rd season onwards, his role became a part of the main cast. He continued to portray the character till season 6 (2010) and in 2006 earned a ‘Primetime Emmy Award’ nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In addition, the series also won him the 2006 Best Guest Actor award at the ‘Gold Derby TV Award’ and ‘OFTA Television Award’ as well as the 2008 ‘Gold Derby’ Ensemble of the Year award (shared with other cast members). The series has a Rotten Tomato score of 85%.
From 2006 to 2010, he acted in a couple of episodes each of action crime drama series ‘24’ (2006, as Theo Stoller) and the mystery crime drama series ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ (2010, as Erik Weber) as well as one episode of the science programme ‘Nova’ (2009, as Charles Darwin). In films, he was seen in the horror mystery drama ‘Half Light’ (2006), romance thriller ‘9/Tenths’ (2006), action crime thriller ‘Hitman’ (2007) and fantasy comedy drama ‘Dead Like Me: Life After Death’ (2009, direct-to-video release).
In 2012, he was seen in the main role of Stephen Finch in the 1st season of the ABC’s political thriller series ‘Scandal’. Afterwards, he appeared as a guest cast in an episode of the 4th season of the series (2015). In 2013, he directed and acted in a short film titled ‘Dress’ which won the ‘Hawaii International Film Festival’ Audience Award for Best Short Film. As a director, Henry Ian Cusick also directed a couple of episodes of the sci-fi mystery drama series ‘The 100’ (2017-2018), a show wherein he played the main role of Marcus Kane in 6 seasons from 2014 to 2019. Both ‘Scandal’ and ‘The 100’ have a Rotten Tomato score of 93%.
His other significant television projects that followed include a recurring role in ABC’s sci-fi action-adventure series ‘Inhumans’ (2017, as Dr. Evan Declan) as well as main roles in thriller series ‘The Passage’ (2019, as Dr. Jonas Lear, 1 season) and the action-adventure drama series ‘MacGyver’ (4th-5th season, 2020-2021, as Russell Taylor). During this time, he also acted in an episode each of tv series ‘Hawaii Five-0’ (2013), ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ (2013), ‘Rush Hour’ (2016, pilot episode) and ‘Big Sky’ (2022) as well as 2 episodes each of television series ‘Fringe’ (2012) and ‘Body of Proof’ (2013) and 3 episodes of ‘The Mentalist’ (2012-2013).
In films, the period saw him playing the lead roles in the thriller ‘The Girl On The Train’ (2014), the romance comedy drama ‘Frank vs God’ (2014), the drama movie ‘Just Let Go’ (2015) and the sci-fi thriller drama ‘Chimera Strain’ (2018). Additionally, he acted in other movies like ‘Not Another Happy Ending’ (2013), ‘10.0 Earthquake’ (2014), ‘Pali Road’ (2015), ‘Everglades’ (2016) and ‘Rememory’ (2017). Henry Ian Cusick’s works since 2010 also include two short films ‘Visible’ (2016) and ‘Hae Hawai'I’ (2018). The former won him the Best Actor in a Short Film award at the ‘Northeast Film Festival, US’
