Raised in Chicago’s Hyde Park, Charles Parnell trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston before relocating to New York in 1994 and eventually settling in Los Angeles. Early stage work included playing Achilles in a Yale Repertory Theater production of Iphigeneia at Aulis, after which he entered television as the second actor to portray Police Chief Derek Frye on All My Children (2005-2007)…
