 Mount attended Dickson County High School in Dickson, Tennessee, , and Columbia University.In 1998, Anson Mount starred in Terrence McNally's "Corpus Christi" for which he was honored by the Drama League.In 2008, Mount made the finalist list for the American Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center in 2008 for his full length play, "Atomic City", and won the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize for his one act play "Love Liza?"