Biography

Rich Hutchman is an American actor born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, whose family moved to the Detroit area when he was four, fleeing the civil unrest in Ireland. He attended Benjamin Franklin High School in Livonia, Michigan, and earned a B.A. in Theater Arts from Kalamazoo College. After college, he pursued acting in Chicago for a decade, working with acclaimed companies including Lookingglass Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, and Red Orchid Theatre. He moved to Los Angeles in 1998 on the heels of the horror film Stricken and has worked consistently in film and television since. He received his MFA in Acting from CSULB in 2022, concentrating his thesis work on decreasing actor anxiety, and now serves as a part-time lecturer in Performance there. His most notable film credits include Déjà Vu (2006, as Agent Stalhuth), The Island (2005), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Dark Skies (2013, as Mike Jessop), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), Seven Pounds (2008), and Home (2020). On television, he is best known for his recurring role as Bud Campbell on Mad Men (2008, six episodes), with additional credits in Grey's Anatomy, The Resident, NCIS, Bones, Monk, The Mentalist, Shameless, Transparent, Lethal Weapon, and Space Hospital. He continues to do theater with Buzzworks Theater Company, based in Silverlake, Los Angeles.