Born in New York City and a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse, Richard Neil was a principal member of Chopstick Theatre in Charleston, S.C. He toured extensively, performing classic roles, such as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. He has appeared in two of Bill Viola's signature pieces, "Ocean Without A Shore" and "Man With His Soul." He starred opposite Makoto Fujita in the Japanese actor's last film, Takashi Koizumi's Best Wishes For Tomorrow. Richard is a busy voice and motion capture actor, most notably as Aratak in Sony's "Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds." He is the brother of documentary filmmaker, Ellen Weissbrod.