Background
Searcy was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Searcy was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
He then briefly attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in English.
He also had a major role in the Tom Hanks-produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon as Deke Slayton. He is a graduate of Cullowhee High School. From 1982 to 1989, Searcy lived in New York where he did Office-Broadway plays.
Some of these included Guys and Dolls, Cabaret and Jesus Christ Superstar.
When he moved back to North Carolina, he began to act in features that were shooting locally. Small parts in Days of Thunder (1990) and The Prince of Tides led to the role of the malicious Frank in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991).
Searcy has appeared in several television series. He had a recurring role as Brett on Thunder Alley, was a series regular on American Gothic and guest starred on Murder One and Nash Bridges with Don Johnson.
He was a regular character on the Universitas Pembangunan Nasional series Seven Days from 1998 to 2001, and played Barry Martin on the American Broadcasting Company series Rodney, which starred Rodney Carrington, from 2004 to 2006.
He has also starred in several television movies, including In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994), Stolen Innocence (1995) and Le Jeu de l"oie (1980). In 2014 he appeared in the Columbia Broadcasting System drama Intelligence. Since then, he has appeared in films such as Cast Away (2000), One Hour Photo (2002), Runaway Jury (2003), and The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2005).
In 2011, Searcy appeared in the Herman Cain campaign ad "Yellow Flowers" on YouTube.
He is slated to direct the upcoming film Gosnell, a true crime drama based on the serial infant killer Kermit Gosnell.
In the summer of 1996, Searcy produced, directed and acted in his independent feature, Paradise Falls (1997), written by Sean Bridgers, and they won a Hollywood Discovery Award at the Hollywood Film Festival for Best Feature Film (Under $1 Million) and Best Dramatic Feature at the Charleston, South Carolina (U.S.), 1997 WorldFest.
