--- name: "Adam Rothenberg" canonical: "https://film.one/person/adam-rothenberg" fi1m_id: "adam-rothenberg" imdb_id: "nm1079976" tmdb_id: 129099 wikidata_id: "Q4679704" roles: ["Actor"] born: "20 June 1975" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 75 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-07T16:08:17.912947+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Adam Rothenberg ## Identity Adam Rothenberg - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adam-rothenberg - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** adam-rothenberg - **IMDb ID:** nm1079976 - **TMDB ID:** 129099 - **Wikidata ID:** Q4679704 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rothenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4679704, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1079976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/129099 Actor. Born 20 June 1975 in Tenafly. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 20 June 1975, Tenafly - **Active:** 2012–present - **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 72 (2), 2020s 80 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 74 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 1 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Mystery 1 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rothenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4679704, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1079976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/129099 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Ripper Street*](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Adam Rothenberg > An American actor whose best work is being the American in the wrong room. In *Ripper Street* he took Richard Warlow's upholstered Victorian talk and turned it into a drawl that sounded like contempt, and the series was better whenever he spoke. Adam Rothenberg's habit is to sound unimpressed. In *Ripper Street* (2012) everyone in Whitechapel speaks as though dictating a pamphlet, a subordinate clause and a flourish on every sentence, and most of the cast can be seen working to get the words out. Rothenberg does not appear to work. He lets Homer Jackson's lines fall out of the side of his mouth, flattens the ornament into a drawl and makes the whole style sound like something he finds faintly absurd. We enjoyed him more than the writing deserved: a line that would have sunk another actor came out of him as if it bored him, and the boredom was funnier than any joke Warlow wrote. It is why Jackson, the American surgeon with a past he does not discuss, who does Reid's post-mortems and lodges at Long Susan's house, is the one man in H Division we never caught acting. He arrived at that manner by way of the New York stage, and by way of plays that reward it. He was Danny in the Second Stage revival of Shanley's *Danny and the Deep Blue Sea* (2004) and Stanley Kowalski opposite Patricia Clarkson the same year; later he made his London stage debut in *Fool for Love* (2016). Shepard, Williams and Shanley write men who argue with their shoulders, and that is what he brought to Jackson, an ex-Army surgeon and Pinkerton man who can open a body and start a fight in the same afternoon. He called it "like a dream part. Early forensics, gun-slinging, card-counting, whoring, you know? It's got everything kind of rolled into one." He played it across all 36 episodes, which is a long time to keep a drawl from curdling into a tic, and the consensus is that it held. The parts since have mostly been the same man in different rooms: Officer DeKeiffer in James Gray's *The Immigrant* (2013), turns in *Dietland* (2018), *Castle Rock* (2018) and *The Serpent* (2021), and a season of *Ozark* (2022) as Mel Sattem, a private investigator who will not leave the Byrde family alone. Casting directors have noticed what we noticed. He is useful as the outsider whose methods do not match the institution around him, the man who knows something the locals do not and is not polite about it. We have not reviewed those and will not pretend to weigh them. We will say that an actor built to carry a series has lately been asked to carry a few episodes of someone else's. He has made a career of being the American who does not belong where he has been put, and it has been a decent one. Somebody should write him another part with everything in it. ## Biography Adam Rothenberg is an American actor. He was born on 20 June 1975 in Tenafly, New Jersey, and trained at The Acting Studio – New York under James Price. He performed in several off-Broadway productions, including the 2004 revival of *Danny and the Deep Blue Sea* and *Birdy* (2003). Rothenberg is best known for playing Captain Homer Jackson in the BBC drama series *Ripper Street* (2012–2016). His other television credits include *Ozark* (2017) as Mel Sattem, *The Serpent* (2021) as Gilbert Redland, and guest roles in *Person of Interest* (2011), *Elementary* (2012) and *Orange Is the New Black* (2013). Film appearances include *Mad Money* (2008) and *The Immigrant* (2013). He has also worked as a producer. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Rivals* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Johnny Friedlander — [page](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md) - *Ozark* (2017), Fi1m 70, as Mel Sattem — [page](https://film.one/tv/ozark.md) - *Ripper Street* (2012), Fi1m 74, as Homer Jackson — [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md) ## Complete filmography (21) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Bombing of Pan Am 103* (2025), series, as Neil Gallagher - *Rivals* (2024), series, as Johnny Friedlander — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md) - *The Serpent* (2021), series, as Gilbert Redland - *Dietland* (2018), series, as Dominic O’Shea - *Ozark* (2017), series, as Mel Sattem — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/ozark.md) - *The Immigrant* (2013), as Officer DeKeiffer - *Orange Is the New Black* (2013), series, as Mr. Doggett — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/orange-is-the-new-black.md) - *Ripper Street* (2012), series, as Homer Jackson — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md) - *Elementary* (2012), series, as Liam Danow - *Alcatraz* (2012), series, as Johnny McKee - *Person of Interest* (2011), series, as Andrew Benton — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/person-of-interest.md) - *The Dish & the Spoon* (2011), as Husband - *The Ex List* (2008), series, as Augie - *Tennessee* (2008), as Carter - *Mad Money* (2008), as Bob Truman - *Conviction* (2006), series, as Jay Patterson - *House* (2004), series, as Taylor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/house-2004.md) - *Coyote Beach* (2003), as The Man · Producer - *Hack* (2002), series, as Greg - *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Henry Di Piano - *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Marty Vance — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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