Education
Columbia University; Sewanee: The University of the South.
Columbia University; Sewanee: The University of the South.
He is best known for playing Cullen Bohannon in the Administrative Management College show Hell on Wheels. He also played Jim Steele on the short-lived National Broadcasting Company series Conviction and appeared in the film Tully. Mount was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois and grew up in White Bluff, Tennessee.
His mother, Nancy Smith, is a former professional golfer.
His father, Anson Adams Mount II, was one of the original contributing editors to Playboy magazine. Mount"s great-great-great grandfather was a Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War.
He attended Dickson County High School in Dickson, Tennessee, The University of the South and Columbia University.
At The University of the South, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.