Biography

Randy Oglesby has guest starred in many episodic television shows, among them all the David E. Kelly shows, and played in Star Trek, from Next Generation to Enterprise. Recent recurring roles are in Godless, Strange Angels, Sharp Objects and most recently he is recurring as President Jim Bragg in the Apple TV series, For All Mankind. Some of his favorite film roles are in Pale Rider, Independence Day, Pearl Harbor, The Lone Ranger, Path to War, Patch Adams and Liar, Liar, The Island. Randy was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where he began studying theatre. After leaving school and to support his efforts to become an actor, there began a long, strange, character-building series of odd jobs that by their peculiar variety deserve mention; scrub assistant in surgery, waiter, singing bartender, hod carrier, starting and exercising thoroughbred racehorses, working in a cement batching company, a hide factory, pool hall rack boy, cutting and selling firewood, training polo ponies, and, finally, after going to New York, he drove a cab and was a bicycle messenger, while studying acting with Julie Bovasso and at last moving to San Francisco to continue studying at the American Conservatory Theatre. After two years of school, he joined A.C.T.'s acting company for the next five years, having performed in forty plays during the seven years he was there. Among these included Romeo & Juliet, The Little Foxes, Ibsen's Ghost, O'Neil's Mourning Becomes Elektra. He then moved to Los Angeles, became a founding member of the Pacific Resident Theatre, with whom he acted, wrote, directed and produced plays, and started working in film and television. He also continued working on larger stages, doing seven plays at the Mark Taper Forum, working at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, the Old Globe in San Diego, the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Denver Repertory Theatre, and the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, and working in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Kentucky Cycle that premiered at the Intiman, then the Mark Taper Forum, where it won the Pulitzer, before going on to play at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the Royal Theatre on Broadway. He has guest starred in many episodic television shows, among them all the David Kelly shows, and played in Star Trek, from Next Generation to Enterprise, having the interesting distinction of having done more characters, seven, than anyone. Recent recurring roles are in Godless, Strange Angels, and Sharp Objects and most recently he recurred as Vice President Jim Bragg in the Apple TV series, For All Mankind, soon to be returning as President Jim Bragg. He lives in Los Angeles, is married, has two daughters and a grandson, two dogs and a big, brown thoroughbred gelding, and in the past few years has finally started to call himself a Westerner and a Californian. His only advice would be to tell the truth (because that is always a safe bet) and keep your fingers crossed (because you will need a little luck), and maybe, just maybe, it will work out.

- IMDb mini biography by: Arthur Craven