Ted Levine is an American actor best known for playing the roles of Buffalo Bill in the film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series Monk (2002-2009). He has also appeared in several other notable films such as Heat (1995), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom (2018), and The Report (2019). Ted Levine was born on May 29 , 1957, and attended Marlboro College. He is married to Kim Phillips and has two children.