Editing Kyle Secor (section)

==Career==
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After attending a community college, Secor moved to [[Los Angeles]]. There, he performed in plays such as ''[[And a Nightingale Sang]]'' at the Santa Monica Playhouse (1986),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Middleton |first=Thomas H. |date=April 30, 1986 |title=Childhood Chants About Underpants |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-30-vw-2828-story.html |access-date=April 4, 2022}}</ref> ''[[Look Homeward, Angel (play)|Look Homeward, Angel]]'' (1986) and ''[[In the Jungle of Cities]]'' (1987) at the [[Pasadena Playhouse]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Arkatov |first=Janice |date=June 3, 1986 |title=SECOR LIVES A DREAM BECAUSE OF AN 'ANGEL': 'ANGEL' MAKES ACTOR'S FOND DREAM COME TRUE |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-03-ca-9318-story.html |access-date=April 4, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Koehler |first=Robert |date=February 20, 1987 |title=STAGE REVIEW: STUMBLING VERSION OF EARLY BRECHT |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-20-ca-3016-story.html |access-date=April 4, 2022}}</ref> 

Secor's first major television role was the character Brian Bradford on the [[soap opera]] ''[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]'', soon followed by a stint on the hospital drama ''[[St. Elsewhere]],'' in which he played Brett Johnston, a patient dying of [[AIDS]].

After working in several movies, including ''[[Heart of Dixie (film)|Heart of Dixie]]'' (1989), ''[[City Slickers]]'' (1991), ''[[Sleeping with the Enemy (1991 film)|Sleeping with the Enemy]]'' (1991), ''[[Delusion (1991 film)|Delusion]]'' (1991), and ''[[Untamed Heart]]'' (1993), in 1993 Secor was cast as Detective [[Tim Bayliss]] in ''Homicide: Life on the Street'', a role which he would fill for the entirety of the series. Throughout most of this time, Secor was paired on screen with actor [[Andre Braugher]], who played his partner Frank Pembleton. Though the show was an [[ensemble cast|ensemble]] work, Secor's character was placed in a particularly pivotal role, as the series began on his first day of work in the [[Baltimore]] homicide unit, and ended with his resignation in the series finale. Bayliss' character was conflicted through much of the show's run, obsessed with the murder of a child he and Pembleton could not solve. The character also had issues involving social protest, past [[child molestation|molestation]] by an uncle and questions about his own [[Human male sexuality|sexuality]].

After a successful seven-year run on ''Homicide'', Secor went on to a short-lived role on ''[[Party of Five]]'' and made two feature films, ''Endsville'' and ''Beat''. He returned to the small screen as a doctor in the [[CBS]] production, ''City of Angels'', for nine weeks during the fall of 2000. He appeared in the [[made-for-TV movie]] ''Bailey's Mistake'', which was shown on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] on March 18, 2001. He appeared in the [[pilot episode]] of ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'' in the fall of 2001 and had a recurring supporting role in the cancelled ABC production of [[Steven Bochco]]'s ''[[Philly (TV series)|Philly]]'' from September 2001 through May 2002. In fall 2002 he was seen as a guest star on CBS's ''[[Without a Trace]]''. Spring of 2004 brought [[Lifetime Network|Lifetime]]'s ''Infidelity'' opposite former ''Philly'' costar [[Kim Delaney]], and the long-awaited [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]-ABC [[television film]] ''[[A Wrinkle in Time (2003 film)|A Wrinkle in Time]]'' featuring him in the role of the Man with Red Eyes. He had a recurring role as [[Jake Kane]] in the 2004–2005 freshman season of the show ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' and guest-starred in the series finale.

From 2005 to 2006, he starred with [[Geena Davis]] in ABC's ''[[Commander in Chief (television)|Commander in Chief]]'', playing Rod Calloway, the husband and 'first gentleman' of President Mackenzie Allen, the first female President.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Duffy |first=Mike |date=November 28, 2005 |title=As 'first gentleman,' Kyle Secor treads new ground |work=The Gainesville Sun |url=https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2005/11/29/as-first-gentleman-kyle-secor-treads-new-ground/31467668007/ |access-date=April 4, 2022}}</ref> In 2007, he played Alan 'Skip' Matthews in the short-lived show ''[[Hidden Palms]]''.

Secor had a recurring role as Hanson North, a defense attorney who has a romantic history with [[Laura Harris]]' character in ABC's ''[[Women's Murder Club (TV series)|Women's Murder Club]]'', 2007 – 2008.

He also acted in ''[[Boston Legal]]'' as Dr. Robert L. Brooks, who was married to Phoebe Prentice, a former flame of Alan Shore. Also, he guest starred in ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' as Doug Bancroft. In August 2010 he made a guest appearance on ''[[The Closer]]'' as an airline pilot involved in drug smuggling. Secor appeared on the revival of the television series ''[[Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)|Hawaii Five-0]]'' on the fifth episode of their first season, "Nalowale", playing Ambassador Michael Reeves. In 2016, he portrayed presidential candidate Minister Edwidge Owens running opposite Senator Charlene "Charlie" Roan ([[Elizabeth Mitchell]]) in ''[[The Purge: Election Year]]''. He also had a recurring role as Thomas Snow/Icicle on the 2018-19 [[The Flash (season 5)|fifth season]] of ''[[The Flash (2014 TV series)|The Flash]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Agard |first=Chancellor |date=August 22, 2018 |title=The Flash casts Veronica Mars alum Kyle Secor as Caitlin's MIA father |url=https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/22/the-flash-kyle-secor-caitlin-father/ |access-date=April 4, 2022 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref>

In 2021, Secor published a semi-autobiographical book titled ''DEATH of the ACTOR: Everything I Never Learned About Nothing'' where he explores the concept of [[Nonduality (spirituality)|nonduality]] as it pertains to acting.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Secor |first=Kyle |title=DEATH of the ACTOR: Everything I Never Learned About Nothing |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-578-33985-6 |pages= |language=en}}</ref>