American actor Teddy Sears has several notable roles to his name, including Hunter Zolomon AKA Zoom AKA Black Flash in The Flash, Richard Patrick Woolsley in Raising the Bar, Teddy Sears as Dr Austin Langham in Masters of Sex, Keith Mullins in 24: Legacy, and Kyle Sheffield in Chicago Fire. He has recently made guest appearances in shows such as S.W.A.T. and American Horror Stories. He is popular on social media, having over 166,000 followers on Instagram.
Sears was born in Washington, D.C., in April 1977. He studied at the University of Maryland, and played football for them, but graduated with a degree in business management in 1999. However, any potential suit-and-tie career was put on hold when he won a part in the long-running soap opera, One Life to Live, making his screen debut in 2001. He then did some training in comedy and won a recurring role playing comic characters on Letterman in 2005. In 2008, he got his first significant break when he was cast as Richard Patrick Woolsley, one of the leading characters in TNT’s legal drama, Raising the Bar, which ran for two seasons.
Between 2013 and 2016, Sears was one of the stars of the Golden Globe-nominated drama series Masters of Sex, and in 2015, he joined the second season cast of The Flash, also appearing in further series. The role won him a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice TV Villain. Further recurring roles have followed, as Sears continues to prove himself as one of America’s most versatile and diligent character actors.
