Background
Levine was born in Bellaire, Ohio, the son of Charlotte Virginia (Clark) and Milton Dmitri Levine, who were both doctors and members of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Levine"s father is a Canadian of Russian-Jewish descent and his mother is Welsh. He grew up in Oak Park, Illinois.
Career
He describes himself as a "hillbilly Jew". In 1975, he enrolled at Marlboro College. He became a fixture in the Chicago theatre scene and joined the Remains Theatre which was co-founded by Gary Cole and William Petersen.
After his stage experience, Levine began to devote most of his energy during the 1980s toward finding roles in film and television
In the drama Georgia, he played Mare Winningham"s husband, one of his most sympathetic roles. His résumé also includes an uncredited role as the voice of the sociopathic trucker "Rusty Nail" in 2001"s Joy Ride, and his performance as Detective Sam Nico in the 2003 film Wonderland, based on the gruesome murders in the Hollywood Hills.
From 2002 to 2009, he co-starred as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on United States of America Network"s detective series Monk, starring Tony Shalhoub. Levine provided the voice of the supervillain Sinestro in Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited.
Levine also appeared as a patriarch whose family takes a turn for the worse in the remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006).
In 2007, he portrayed local Sheriff James Timberlake in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and appeared in Ridley Scott"s American Gangster, alongside Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. In 2010, he appeared as the warden of the island prison in Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2012, he appeared as Sheriff Bloom Towne in Deep Dark Canyon, alongside Spencer Treat Clark and Nick Eversman, who portray Sheriff Towne"s sons, Nate and Skylar, respectively.
In 2013, he had a major supporting role in the Forex murder mystery series The Bridge as Lieutenant Hank Wade, commander of a police homicide unit in a Texas border city.
In 2014 he portrayed General Underwood in the British-Finnish action film Big Game. On February 15, 2013, Ted Levine (Frank Theodore Levine) was involved in the sale of The Holly Ridge Smokehouse Restaurant in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Membership
Levine was able to remedy this by playing more positive characters, such as a member of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino"s police unit in Heat, astronaut Alan Shepard in the Home Box Office mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, and Paul Walker"s police superior Sergeant Tanner in The Fast and the Furious. Some members of the family were involved in petitioning the Superior Court Division of Onslow County, North Carolina, to order that the restaurant be auctioned for public sale (Case File 12-SP-819).