The middle of five children. His father was a police officer/detective and his mother was a social worker. He received his B.A. from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and pursued his M.F.A. on a full scholarship at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Kelly has appeared in numerous off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions, primarily at the Public Theater and the Second Stage. A product of regional national theater, he has been a company member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Folger Theater, Arena Stage, and the Actors Theater of Louisville among others. He toured with the National Players, the oldest classical touring company in the United States. He starred on Broadway as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and as Paul Verrall opposite Madeline Kahn in "Born Yesterday". In 2003, he appeared at the Mark Taper Theater Forum, originating the role of Richard in "Living Out" by Lisa Loomer.

Filmography

• 2021Far More — Dick McAllister
• 2021Skipping Stones — Mr. McDowell
• 2019Among the Shadows — Bittencourt
• 2019Crazy Alien — The President of the United States
• 2016A Father's Secret — Caswell Foxx
• 2016Holiday Breakup — William
• 2015Sex, Death and Bowling — Dick McAllister
• 2015ToY — Steven
• Growing Up Fisher — Tom Hawkins
• 2013Devil May Call — Tony
• 2013Invasion Roswell — David
• 2013Mischief Night — David
• 2013The Monkey's Paw — Gillespie
• 2012God's Country — Mr. Randolph Whitaker
• Law & Order: LA — Judge Royce
• Castle — Evan Potter
• NCIS: Los Angeles — Man
• The Mentalist — Philip Carmichael
• Supernatural — Jake Devins
• Boston Legal — William Brewster
• Cold Case — Elliot Glick (2008)
• Las Vegas — Senator William Percy 'Bill' Henderson
• NCIS — Admiral Kendall
• For the People — Ted Hartford
• 2001Guardian — Agent Taylor
• Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot — John F. Kennedy
• Ponderosa — Ben Cartwright
• 2000Growing Up Brady — Robert Reed
• 2000The In Crowd — Dr. Henry Thompson
• 1999Chill Factor — Col. Leo Vitelli
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Mark Dobbins
• The West Wing — James Cook
• Twice in a Lifetime — Rex Stanford / Charles
• 1998Atomic Dog — Brook Yates
• 1998Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story — Lonn Reisman
• From the Earth to the Moon — Gene Cernan
• 1998Labor of Love — Gordon Connell
• Oh Baby — Grant
• 1998Star Trek: Insurrection — Sojef
• 1997Five Desperate Hours — Jim Ballard
• 1997Stranger in My Home — Doug Martin
• Second Noah — Noah Beckett
• 1995Bad Company — Les Goodwin
• 1995Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story — Steve Sohmer
• 1995No Greater Love — Ben Jones
• The Outer Limits — Alex Buchanan
• 1995The Tuskegee Airmen
• 1994A Child's Cry for Help — Donald Prescott
• 1994MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice — Franklin Carter
• 1993The Good Son — Wallace Evans
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Tim Preston
• 1992Citizen Cohn — Congressman Neil Gallagher
• The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
• Law & Order — Councilman Kevin Crossley, Julian Spector, Lawrence Garber, Leland Barnes
• I Married Dora — Peter Farrell
• 1987Night of Courage — Paul Forrest
• 1987Nowhere to Hide — Rob Cutter
• Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder — Mike George
• 1987Someone to Watch Over Me — Scotty
• 1983Cujo — Vic Trenton
• Hardcastle and McCormick — Mark "Skid" McCormick, Director
• Chicago Story — Det. Frank Wajorski
• 1981Thin Ice — Jack
• Battle of the Network Stars

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self