<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1999--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Anson Adams Mount IV (born February 25, 1973) is an American actor . He portrayed the fictional character Cullen Bohannon in the AMC western drama series Hell on Wheels . He was also cast in the role of Jim Steele on the short - lived NBC series Conviction and appeared in the film Tully (2000). In 2017, he portrayed the Marvel Comics superhero Black Bolt in Marvel's Inhumans . On April 9, 2018, it was announced that Mount will have a recurring role as Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise in season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery . </P> <P> Mount was born in Mount Prospect, Illinois and grew up in White Bluff, Tennessee . His mother, Nancy Smith, is a former professional golfer . His father, Anson Adams Mount II, was one of the original contributing editors to Playboy magazine . Anson has an older brother, Anson Adams III, and two sisters, Kristin and Elizabeth, from his father's first marriage . Mount's great - great - great grandfather was a Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War . </P>

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