After decades of work in regional theater and made-for-television movies, American character actor Richard Jenkins began to attract the attention of critics and audiences in the late 1990s with quiet but engrossing performances in a wide variety of feature films. Equally capable at both broad comedy and drama, he frequently essayed tightly controlled men of authority – judges, government agents, detectives and medical professionals – to whom Jenkins brought depth and soul. Occasionally, his characters spun wildly out of control – a DEA agent who experiences a spectacular LSD trip in “Flirting