Charles Parnell is an American actor. He is best known for the role of Rear Admiral Solomon "Warlock" Bates in the film ' (2022). He was the second actor to portray Police Chief Derek Frye on All My Children (2004âÂÂ2008).
Parnell was born and raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. He attended high school at the Kenwood Academy, and trained as an actor at the Piven Theatre Workshop in nearby Evanston. He relocated to New York in 1994 before eventually settling in Los Angeles.
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.
Parnell took over the role of Frye on All My Children, previously played by actor William Christian. 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..
Other appearances include the role of Master Chief Russell "Russ" Jeter on the TNT show The Last Ship from 2014 to 2018, ' (2023), its sequel ' (2025), and The Killer (2023).