Denis O'Hare
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Denis O'Hare (born January 17, 1962) is an American Tony Award-winning actor.
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[edit] Biography
O'Hare was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's theatre school.[1] O'Hare is Irish American and has an Irish passport.[2] He came out as gay during high school.[3]
O'Hare won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, where his character's lengthy monologues in which he slowly falls in love with the game of baseball were considered the main reason for his award. He also won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Oscar Lindquist in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity.
In 2004 he played Charles J. Guiteau in the Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, for which he was nominated for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Award. He lost to co-star Michael Cerveris who played John Wilkes Booth. Before appearing in those shows, he appeared on Broadway in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, in which he played Ernst Ludwig onstage and the clarinet in the show's orchestra, the "Kit Kat Band."
O'Hare was featured in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Saint Maybe. He has appeared as a guest star on several episodes of Law & Order and its spinoff, SVU. His feature film credits include 21 Grams, Garden State, Derailed, Michael Clayton, and A Mighty Heart.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Won
- 2005 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Sweet Charity)
- 2003 Broadway.com Audience Award Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play (Take Me Out)
- 2003 Clarence Derwent Award Most Promising Male Performer (Take Me Out)
- 2003 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Take Me Out)
- 2003 Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Featured Actor (Take Me Out)
- 2003 Obie Award Outstanding Performance (Take Me Out)
- 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Take Me Out)
- 2003 Tony Award Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (Take Me Out)
[edit] Nominated
- 2007 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Inherit the Wind) and (A Spanish Play)
- 2006 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Sweet Charity)
- 2005 Broadway.com Audience Award Favorite Featured Actor in a Musical (Sweet Charity)
- 2005 Broadway.com Audience Award Favorite Onstage Pair (Sweet Charity)
- 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Sweet Charity)
- 2004 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Assassins)
- 2004 Tony Award Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Assassins)
- 2003 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Take Me Out)
- 1993 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Play (Hauptmann)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Denis O'Hare at the Internet Broadway Database
- Denis O'Hare at the Internet Movie Database
- Denis O'Hare - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
- Star File: Denis O'Hare at Broadway.com
- TonyAwards.com Interview with Denis O'Hare
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