Charles Parnell (actor)

Charles Parnell is an American actor.

He is best known for being the second actor to portray Police Chief Derek Frye on All My Children (2004-2008).

He joined the cast of the show on September 8, 2005, and made his final appearance on September 24, 2007.

He voices Jefferson Twilight on Cartoon Network's The Venture Bros..

Before taking the role of Derek Frye, Parnell played Achilles in Iphigeneia at Aulis, a play by Euripides translated and adapted by Kenneth Cavander at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.

He also portrayed Master Chief Russ Jeter on the TNT show The Last Ship from 2014 to 2018.

Parnell also acted in the films Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), and The Killer (2023).

Parnell took over the role of Frye on All My Children, previously played by actor William Christian.