Kevin Rankin

“Friday Night Lights” veteran Kevin Rankin has scored a recurring role on HBO’s “Big Love.”

Rankin has been keeping busy, having also booked a role on HBO’s Alan Ball project “All Signs of Death” and in the 2011 movie “The Chaperone.”

On “Big Love,” Rankin will play the son of a “hard line of polygamists.”

Image Credit: Michael Bezjian/WireImage.com; Lance Staedler/CBSThis next casting scoop gets the Aushole seal of approval: FormerFriday Night Lights scene-stealer Kevin Rankin (it’s Herc!) is joining CBS’ The Mentalist in the potentially recurring role of Danny Ruskin, Patrick Jane’s (Simon Baker) brother-in-law.

“He’s a hustler, a con artist, a ladies’ man—a cunning ne’er-do-well,” explains MentalistEP/creator Bruno Heller

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Kevin Rankin in character as Tyler on NBC’s Trauma.

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Kevin Rankin is probably best known for his role as wheelchair bound Herc, who befriends Jason Street in the show Friday Night Lights or as Tyler Briggs on the NBC show Trauma. Now, he plays the Devil in FX’s new original series “Justified” with Timothy Olyphant. Mr. Rankin took time out of his busy shooting schedule to talk about his characters on both Trauma and Justified.

Q. Tell us about your character Tyler. I know you came out in the Halloween episode as being gay with a partner that does not seem too happy about that. Can you discuss that?

A. Tyler is a guy that is addicted to the job. He deals with the pressures thru a very odd sense of humor. He is gay, but it doesn’t in any way define who he is or how he conducts himself. His relationship with his partner, Cameron Boone (Derek Luke), is a very important part of the show because it shows the dynamic between 2 completely different people that spend more time together than with their own families. It shows 2 people that can put their personal lives aside and really work together for a solution. His partner Boone is accepting of Tyler, and by that I mean he really accepts him as a person, human, friend.

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