Jim Dougherty

Jim Dougherty is a character actor who studied theater and film at Indiana University. He spent years in Chicago training to be a stuntman with John Hicks Pearce, and was involved in forming The Chicago Stunt Team. He studied and managed at The Degerberg Academy of Martial Arts for years. He started his screen work as a precision driver on Nora Ephron's Michael, and appeared on the Discovery Channel and the SyFy Channel, and opposite Emmy winner Margo Martindale in Scalene. In 2016 he moved to Atlanta to work as an actor, editor, director of photography and instructor. He booked roles in Marvel's The Gifted, Kevin Probably Saves the World, House of Cards, Ozark, The Inspector's and Chicago PD, along with the NatGeo movie Killing Reagan (2016). He acted in independent features including Columbus (2017) with John Cho and Parker Posey, and worked behind the scenes as first assistant director on Dead Draw (2016) and as an editor on Homecoming.