Skip Schwink

Skip Schwink

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An actor and filmmaker known for the A24/Plan B produced Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and starring Steven Yeun, which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Dramatic Feature at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the upcoming family comedy/drama Breaking Them Up in which he co-stars alongside Kellen Coleman and Steven Schneider. Skip also stars opposite Dennis Quaid in the feature biopic Reagan where he will portray the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. A former student of the Upright Citizens Brigade and Groundlings improv and sketch schools in Los Angeles, Skip has performed at some of the worlds most famous comedy clubs including The Comedy Store and The Laugh Factory. His comedic talents will be on full display when he takes on the lead role of the supervillain known as Alpha Dog in the family comedy adventure feature film "C.I.Ape," about the worlds first chimpanzee secret agent - to be released through Lionsgate, spring 2021.

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Guardians of Time
Jason
One day, in the family manor, four cousins discover a passage to a mysterious world. Trapped in this unearthed land, the Kingdom of Keoherus, they must confront the Guardian of Time and face dark forces and beast to hopefully get home.
C.I.Ape
Alpha Dog
When a criminal plot is discovered, the C.I.A. turns to its first ever ape, their most unique operative, to foil the plot from the inside.
Joey and Ella
When a baby kangaroo gets accidentally swept up in a jewelry heist, she becomes separated from her mother for the first time in her young life. Alone and frightened, a worldly teenage girl Ella, who also knows the pain of losing her mother, discovers her and nurses Joey back to health. However, when Joey is falsely implicated in the robbery, Ella has to work quickly to reunite her with her mother before shes either captured by the bumbling jewel thieves or taken into custody by a determined detective hot on their trail.
Truth and Lies
Alpha dog
Bondi James, otherwise known as Agent BJ, is young, hung and full of verve. He lives for one thing: to catch spies and surfing. He enlists the help of a talking chimp to engage in a luscious journey to Wolfhound Island to stop the devious and evil Alpha Dog's plans for universal domination.
Ape Canyon
Franklin
Cal Piker hasn’t seen his sister Samantha since their mother’s funeral, so when he interrupts her English lecture one morning with a proposal - a week out in the woods of Oregon, looking for Bigfoot in the legendary 'Ape Canyon' - she is more than a little surprised. But it’s a dangerous thing to be led around by Cal, an irresponsible, frustratingly likable kid brother, enthusiastic to the point of irrationality to find Bigfoot for himself. For Cal, this is not a matter of legend. This is not just some adventure. If Samantha doesn’t stop him, Cal will either find Bigfoot or die trying.
Minari
Doctor
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
The Sneak Over
Mr. Blevins
It's the summer before fifth grade and Henry Hudson hasn't found his place in the world. Then he meets a group of immature film geeks who give him the courage to lead a battle against the neighborhood bullies and finally become one of the guys.
Breaking Them Up
Frank
Tired of his parents’ constant bickering, 15 year old Damien is certain they’re all wrong for each other— he would know, he’s a relationship expert. Damien and his best friend Erin have a side hustle coupling-up classmates for the right price. So when Damien discovers his parents may have had a shotgunning wedding, he convinces Erin to turn their efforts toward finding his parents new partners— but the cost of doing business may come at the price of everyone involved.
Reagan
Jimmy Carter
A drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office.