During his career he was best known for his recurring role as Officer Asher on the FX drama The Shield and as the lead in the horror movie Darkness Falls.
Chaney Kley Minnis was born August 20, 1972, in Manassas, Virginia,[1] and raised in Denver, Colorado.
[2] Kley starred in a 1998 Chicago Dramatists' production of The Angels of Lemnos, for which he won a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor.
He then later appeared on NCIS, Cold Case, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, as well as Las Vegas.
Kley died on July 24, 2007, in Venice, Los Angeles and was later buried in Denver, Colorado.