Holt McCallany born Holt Quinn McAloney September 3 1963 is an American actor writer and producer He is known for portraying Bill Tench on the series Mindhunter 2017present and has had several supporting roles in various television series and films His first job in the professional theater was as an apprentice actor at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland Ohio in the same apprenticeship once served by Tom Hanks among others Subsequently he returned to New York City and was cast as an understudy in the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues McCallany landed a series of supporting parts in such films as Casualties of War Alien 3 Creepshow 2 The Search for Oneeye Jimmy and Jade as well as the TV miniseries Rough Riders After playing the legendary boxing trainer Teddy Atlas in the HBO telefilm Tyson he became a supporter of the Atlas Foundation Charity a grassroots organization dedicated to helping children and families with medical and financial hardships He continued working in films and television throughout the nineties and 2000s with roles in films such as Fight Club Three Kings Men of Honor and Below among others He played a detective with psychological problems in CSI Miami and a soldier with posttraumatic stress disorder on Criminal Minds He appeared in the 2010 Warner Bros film The Losers based on the graphic novel from DC Comics McCallany also was the star of the 2011 FX television series Lights Out playing an aging boxer Patrick Lights Leary forced out of retirement and into a comeback bid to regain the heavyweight title despite having pugilistic dementia He followed this with roles in films like Sully Shot Caller and Blackhat among many others Since 2017 McCallany costars in the Netflix series Mindhunter for director David Fincher He plays Bill Tench an FBI agent researching serial killers in the late1970s His first French language film will be released in September 2019 an adaptation of the George Feydeau comedy Le Dindon