Charles Esten
Year Work Role Notes
1996 Wing Commander IV : The Price of Freedom Generic Cap # 1 ( voice ) Video game
1997 The Sleepwalker Killing Mark Schall TV film
1997 The Postman Michael , Abby 's Husband
1999 The Expendables Ram TV film
1999 Late Last Night Beverly Hills Cop TV film
2000 Thirteen Days Maj. Rudolf Anderson
2001 61* Kevin Maris ( '98 ) TV film
2001 Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis Major Anderson Video documentary
2002 The Johnny Chronicles Patrick Monroe TV film
2002 Ten Minutes Older : The Trumpet Bill Twelve Miles to Trona segment
2003 All Grown Up TV film
2003 Water Under the Bridge Don
2003 Nobody Knows Anything ! Conner Fulton
2007 American Family Larry Bogner
2008 1% John Tipton
2008 Swing Vote Lewis
Filmography -- Films
Charles Esten Puskar III (born September 9, 1965), known professionally as Chip Esten, is an American actor, musician and comedian. Esten is best known for his role as country singer Deacon Claybourne on the ABC/CMT drama Nashville from 2012 to 2018 which subsequently kickstarted his own musical career. He previously appeared on the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? regularly between 1999-2005.