Tom Pelphrey isn’t a villain — he’s just played one on TV for two decades.

After growing up doing local theater in New Jersey, then training at the Globe Theatre in London, Pelphrey made his television debut on the CBS soap opera “Guiding Light.” For 154 episodes, he played the diabolical Jonathan Randall — a truly dastardly soap villain — whose crimes included, but were not limited to, seducing his own cousin to get revenge, choking his mother, framing his stepfather for abuse and drugging his aunt.

Since that breakthrough role in 2004, which landed Pelphrey two Daytime Emmy statues, he has worked consistently. After guest starring on a handful of procedurals, “Blue Bloods” and “Law & Order: SVU” and the like, he booked a key role on the Cinemax crime drama “Banshee.” He’d struggled to

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