Brent Bailey is an American film and television actor, director, producer, and screenwriter born in Tucson, Arizona. Bailey has appeared in television series such as Criminal Minds, Rizzoli & Isles and Hart of Dixie. Bailey also played Alex Knightley on the series Emma Approved, which won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program in 2015. He played John F. Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorensen in the film LBJ, directed by Rob Reiner.