Tobin Bell was born August 7, 1942 in Queens, New York. He is an American film and television actor.

Starting with the role of FBI agent Ernest Stokes in Mississippi Burning (1988), Tobin Bell has played a long line of interesting characters on both sides of the law: JFK conspirator David Ferrie in Ruby, Mendoza in In The Line Of Fire, the riveting Nordic in The Firm, gunfighter Dog Kelly in The Quick and the Dead, Lucian Morano in Serial Killer, a parole officer in Goodfellas, the voice of Zaragosa in DreamWorks’s Road to El Dorado, and roles in Overnight Delivery, HBO’s The Fourth Floor, Good Neighbor, Black Mask 2, Loose Cannons, Malice, and Powerplay.

Tobin is a familiar face to viewers of TV movies and dramas. Tobin has been a prominent guest star on some of the most critically acclaimed and popular dramas of the last decade: as attorney Nathan Volk on the NBC drama Revelations, with Bill Pullman, Natasha McElone and John Rhys-Davies; as Peter Kingsley in five episodes of 24; as Agent Dreyer on Alias; and as Karl Storm in one of the fans’ favorite episodes of Walker: Texas Ranger. Tobin has also appeared on The West Wing, The Guardian, The Sopranos, Charmed, Once And Again, X-Files, Stargate, Silk Stalkings, ER, La Femme Nikita, NYPD Blue, Murder One, and Chicago Hope. His resume also includes the television movies-of-the-week One Hot Summer Night, Babysitter’s Seduction, Mortal Fear and Deep Red.

Tobin comes by some of his acting skill naturally; his mother is the British actress Eileen Bell. But Tobin also learned from the best, studying with Lee Strasberg and Ellen Burstyn at the New York's Actor Studio and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. On the New York stage Tobin has appeared at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the New York Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Playwright’s Horizons.

His notable role was the nefarious "Jigsaw," a serial killer who wants others to appreciate the value of life via twisted "games" in the 2004 film Saw and its sequels, Saw II and Saw III, as well as the upcoming Saw IV.

Bell is a renowed lover of animals and has brought his five cats and two dogs on the sets of his movies. He is also a friend of entertainer Kylie Minogue.

Filmography

• Saw V (2008)
• Repo! The Genetic Opera! (2009)
• Highway 61 (2008)
• Boogeyman 2 (2008)
• Saw IV (2007)
• The Haunting Hour Volume One: Don't Think About It (2007)
• "The Kill Point" (6 episodes, 2007)
• Decoys 2: Alien Seduction (2007)
• Buried Alive (2007)
• Saw III (2006)
• Saw II (2005)
• "Revelations" (2005)
• Saw (2004)
• "24" (4 episodes, 2003)
• Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002)
• "The West Wing" (1 episode, 2002)
• "Charmed" (1 episode, 2002)
• Power Play (2002)
• "Alias" (2 episodes, 2001)
• "The Guardian" (1 episode, 2001)
• "The Sopranos" (1 episode, 2001)
• "Once and Again" (1 episode, 2001)
• Good Neighbor (2001)
• "Harsh Realm" (1 episode, 2000)
• "The X Files" (1 episode, 2000)
• The Road to El Dorado (2000)
• "The Pretender" (1 episode, 1999)
• "Strange World" (1 episode 1999)
• The 4th Floor (1999)
• Best of the Best: Without Warning (1998)
• "Vengeance Unlimited" (1 episode, 1998)
• "Walker, Texas Ranger" (2 episodes, 1998)
• Overnight Delivery (1998)
• One Hot Summer Night (1998)
• "Stargate SG-1" (1 episode, 1998)
• Brown's Requiem (1998)
• "Nash Bridges" (1 episode, 1997)
• "La Femme Nikita" (1 episode, 1997)
• "Chicago Hope" (1 episode, 1996)
• Unabomber: The True Story (1996)
• "NYPD Blue" (2 episodes, 1993-1996)
• "Murder One" (1 episode, 1996)
• "The Lazarus Man" (1 episode, 1996)
• The Babysitter's Seduction (1996)
• Cheyenne (1996)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• "Under Suspicion" (1 episode, 1995)
• Serial Killer (1995)
• New Eden (1994)
• Mortal Fear (1994)
• "ER" (1 episode, 1994)
• Dead Man's Revenge (1994)
• Deep Red (1994)
• Malice (1993)
• In the Line of Fire (1993)
• The Firm (1993)
• Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash (1993)
• Boiling Point (1993)
• "Seinfeld" (1 episode, 1993)
• "Silk Stalkings" (1 episode, 1992)
• Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story (1992)
• "Mann & Machine" (1 episode, 1992)
• Ruby (1992)
• Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride (1991)
• "Disney Presents The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage" (1 episode, 1991)
• The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (1991)
• Love, Lies and Murder (1991)
• "Broken Badges" (1 episode, 1990)
• "Jake and the Fatman" (1 episode, 1990)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• "Alien Nation" (1 episode, 1990)
• Loose Cannons (1990)
• False Identity (1990)
• Perfect Witness (1989)
• An Innocent Man (1989)
• Mississippi Burning (1988)
• "The Equalizer" (1 episode, 1988)