Carl Palmer

Carl Palmer was born in Austin, Texas and put up for adoption at birth. About a month later he was adopted by Pat and Barbara Palmer of Houston, Texas, and shortly afterwards the family moved to the factory town of Norco, Louisiana, twenty miles outside of New Orleans. He has a sister, Patty. He attended Catholic school for twelve years and then majored in History and Political Science at Louisiana State University, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He planned to attend law school and pursue a career in politics and law, but took an Acting class his last semester - getting the last available seat for the last available class - the acting bug bit and he entered into LSU's Theatre program. He then went on to California Institute of the Arts where he graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree. After graduating he lived primarily in New York or Los Angeles for twenty years where he piled up over sixty Off-Broadway and major regional credits playing a wide range of roles from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Bottom to John Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Bob Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird, along with film and TV credits beginning with The Pelican Brief in a scene opposite Julia Roberts. In 2011 he moved to New Orleans where he's amassed numerous film and TV credits including Martin Scorcese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Dallas Buyers Club, Just Mercy, Fear the Walking Dead, and recurring roles on Bloodline and Filthy Rich. He still returns to the stage, most recently in the Public Theatre and Audible's Off-Broadway re-mounting of Coal Country by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen at the Cherry Lane Theatre and Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Being adopted, he came to search for his biological parents and wrote and performed his one-man-show about the experience, The Nature of a Fool, in New York and Seattle in the Nineties. He has since totally revamped and re-worked the play into what he now calls A Loss for Words, which delves even further into his birth parent's love story as revealed through their actual love letters as well as what happened after the search. He makes his primary home in Manhattan.