Early Years. A native of Alexandria, Louisiana, Muse Watson is the youngest of four children of German and French descent. His father died when he was six years old and he depended on his maternal grandfather, his namesake, for guidance. Muse had not excelled scholastically in school when at the age of thirteen, he was diagnosed with and treated for dyslexia by a family friend who pioneered awareness of the condition in the area. His love of music led him to the school band and the church choir. His mother had struggled to purchase a clarinet for his sister and he learned to play it. It was through performing music that Watson first got his taste of the "acting bug".

Learning Years. Watson successfully parlayed his talents into a music stipend at Louisiana Tech, where he studied for two years before transferring to Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. It was there that he made his theater debut in 1970 with the lead role of Petruchio in Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew. Rave reviews and sold out performances followed with roles in outdoor drama, dinner theaters, and small reportory groups, performing in plays such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Wizard of Oz, A Streetcar Named Desire and Wilderness Road. Acting became his passion, but a desire to be of service led Watson to teach reading and writing in the surrounding counties as part of Berea Colleg's literacy outreach program.

Watson then moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, working in purchasing departments of two plants there and becoming active in little theater. He starred as Cervantes in Man of LaMancha, and Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls. Moving to Chattanooga, Watson founded an acting troupe called "Ragtime on the River", a repertory comedy group that performed melodramas on a riverboat. That led to Watson being asked to direct performances of Lonestar for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and Ain't MisBehavin for the Bessie Smith Foundation. He also taught acting at a Georgia State Penitentiary, and won "Best Play" at the state wide competition of penitentiaries in 1982 with his inmate cast of Lonestar.

Beginning in Film. Watson then became a driver for major feature films such as "Mississippi Burning" starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe and "Steel Magnolias" with Julia Roberts and Sally Field. Driving enabled him to observe successful actors and fine tune his craft. It was the best internship he could have had. After several jobs as a driver, he purchased trucks to lease to film production companies. Income from the equipment he rented allowed him to begin auditioning full time. Incorporating the knowledge he learned on the set, with his own acting experience, it wasn't long before Watson started appearing in guest starring roles on television shows such as Matlock, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" and "American Gothic".

With a new committment to film, Watson began pursuing roles in feature films. By 2003, he had appeared in thirty-five motion pictures, some of which included "Sommersby" with Jodie Foster and Richard Gere, "Something to Talk About" with Julia Roberts and Robert Duvall, Assassins with Sly Stallone, and the John Singleton film "Rosewood".

Besides his home in L.A., Muse and his wife spend time at their farm in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

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