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Brett Rickaby - Biography

Brett Rickaby is a veteran actor of 80 films and television shows. He has carved out a niche playing primarily emotionally charged psychos and other ne’er-do-wellian types. Earlier in his career, after numerous television appearances, he landed the role of The Riddler in CBS’s Return To The Batcave. The warped, iconic Riddler established Rickaby as a true character actor with a knack for playing oddball, quirky and often frightening characters.
Probably best known for his work in The Crazies, Zodiac, Bad Blood, and as deranged serial killer Graham Sutter in Bereavement, his other feature credits include: Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways To Die in the West as gunslinger Charlie Blanche, his turn as NSA agent Ray Berry in the spy-thriller Tentacle 8, The Axe Murders of Villisca, On The Doll, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, How To Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog and Cursed.
This past year, audiences saw Rickaby cause trouble on ABC’s The Rookie, switch sides and play the part of a lawman in Stephen King’s Castle Rock, play sad-sack restaurateur Barley in Broken Sidewalk, perform on stage in Brandon Jacob-Jenkins vital play An Octoroon at Chautauqua Theater Company; and write, direct and produce Love Takes A Stand at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Soon he can be seen as a low-level consigliere in the upcoming film Where Sleeping Dogs Lie.
On the small screen, ‘creepy guy’ Rickaby has guest starred or recurred in over 50 television shows including The Orville, Shameless, Criminal Minds, Fear The Walking Dead, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, Longmire, Dexter, C.S.I., NCIS, True Blood, and Southland.
The son of a dairy farmer, Rickaby grew up in rural Minnesota. He received a BFA from University of Minnesota, Duluth. There he won numerous honors including The National Irene Ryan Award and was awarded a full scholarship to NYU, where he completed his MFA.
Following his studies, Rickaby worked on stage in New York and regionally in such theaters as The Public, The Roundabout, New York Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Soho Rep, Asolo, La Mama and The American Jewish Theater. Director Nicolas Hytner cast Rickaby as Jigger Craigin in the national tour of Carousel. Rickaby helped originate The Bottle House, a play comprised of Sam Shepard short stories at The Public Theater in New York.
Rickaby has been teaching on-camera acting for over 15 years. He opened Inside Job Acting Studio in 2013 (presently on writing hiatus). In 2006, he created a personal production company for actors called Oracle Filmworks. Rickaby was one of the Co-Founders of NYU’s West Coast Collective. His plays 70 Dollars to a Bus Ride Home and Asylum were produced at the Hudson Avenue Theatre and The Court Theatre in Los Angeles, respectively. In addition to his plays, he has published five books on different topics.
Brett, his wife, and their two children live in Los Angeles.