Ron Eldard has had a diversified career in film, television and on stage. He played a helicopter pilot captured by Somalians in Ridley Scott's Oscar nominated Black Hawk Down, starred in the supernatural thriller, Ghost Ship, and in the comedy Just a Kiss. Other film credits include House of Sand and Fog, opposite Sir Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly, Deep Impact, with Morgan Freeman and Robert Duvall, and Mystery Alaska, opposite Russell Crowe. Wilson also appeared with Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman and Brad Pitt in Barry Levinson's Sleepers, and in Bash: Latter Day Plays, by Neil Labute, opposite Paul Rudd and Calista Flockhart.

His stage work includes the role of Willy Loman's son, Biff, in Death of a Salesman and Terry Malloy in the Broadway production of On the Waterfront. A former golden gloves boxer, Eldard also wrote the one-man show, Standing Eight Count.

Eldard has had numerous TV roles as well, including the drama ER and the comedy Men Behaving Badly.