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Denis O'Hare 
O'Hare at the 2009 premiere of An Englishman in New YorkBorn January 16, 1962
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.Occupation actor Spouse Hugo Redwood (since 2011)[1] Denis O'Hare (born January 16, 1962) is an American actor noted for his award winning performances in Take Me Out and Sweet Charity as well as the HBO television show True Blood. He is also known for his supporting roles in the films Charlie Wilson's War and Milk. He currently stars as Larry Harvey in the FOX Network show American Horror Story.
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Life and career
Denis O'Hare was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, living in Southfield and Bloomfield Hills until he was 15, when his family moved to Wing Lake.[2] His mother is a musician and he grew up playing the church organ.[3] As a teenager, he was in his school's choir and in 1974 he went to his first audition, gaining a chorus part in a community theatre production of Show Boat.[4] In 1980 he left Detroit for Chicago to study theatre at Northwestern University.
O'Hare is Irish American and holds an Irish passport.[5] He came out as gay during high school.[6]
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 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 spin-offs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2008, he has appeared as a guest star on several episodes of Brothers & Sisters. His feature film credits include The Anniversary Party,[7] 21 Grams, Garden State, Derailed, Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart, Half Nelson, Milk, Edge of Darkness, Charlie Wilson's War and Changeling.
In 2009, O'Hare portrayed Phillip Steele (an amalgam character based on Quentin Crisp's friends Phillip Ward and Tom Steele) in a television biopic on Crisp entitled An Englishman in New York. The same year he played therapist Dr. David Worth in the series Bored to Death (episode 1.3).
In 2010, O'Hare joined the cast of HBO's True Blood in its third season as Russell Edgington, the vampire king of Mississippi who is 2,800 years old.[8] Recently he has appeared in a recurring role as Judge Charles Abernathy on the television drama series The Good Wife. O'Hare currently co-stars as Larry Harvey in FX's "American Horror Story".
O'Hare married his partner, Hugo Redwood, on July 28th, 2011 in New York.
Filmography
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Film Year Film Role Notes 1997 St. Patrick's Day Russell 1998 River Red Father 1999 Sweet and Lowdown Jake 2001 Anniversary Party Ryan Rose 2003 21 Grams Dr. Rothberg 2004 Garden State Albert 2005 Derailed Jerry the Lawyer Once Upon A Mattress Prince Dauntless TV movie Heights Andrew 2006 Half Nelson Jimbo 2007 Charlie Wilson's War Harold Holt Awake Financial News Analyst The Babysitters Stan Lyner Michael Clayton Mr. Greer A Mighty Heart John Bussey Rocket Science Doyle Hefner Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot Mike 2008 Milk State Senator John Briggs Quarantine Randy Changeling Dr. Jonathan Steele Baby Mama Dr. Manheim Pretty Bird Chuck 2009 The Proposal Mr. Gilbertson Duplicity Duke Monahan An Englishman in New York Phillip Stele Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Subject#3 2010 Edge of Darkness Moore 2011 American Horror Story Larry Harvey 2011 J. Edgar Albert S. Osborn Awards
Won
O'Hare and James Franco discuss their roles in the 2008 Gus Van Sant film Milk, and its subject, Harvey Milk.
- 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)
- 2005 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Sweet Charity)
Nominated
- 1993 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Play (Hauptmann)
- 2003 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Take Me Out)
- 2004 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Assassins)
- 2004 Tony Award Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Assassins)
- 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)
- 2006 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Sweet Charity)
- 2007 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance (Inherit the Wind) and (A Spanish Play)
References
- ^ "'True Blood' star weds gay partner". Toronto Sun. July 29, 2011. http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/29/true-blood-star-weds-gay-partner. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Chris Azzopardi (November 20, 2008). "The 'Milk' Man". Pride Source. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=33038. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
- ^ Marcus Sanford (June 25, 2007). "Hey There, Hi There, O'Hare! Alone Time With Out, Tony Award-Winning Actor Denis O'Hare". Queer Sighted. http://www.queersighted.com/2007/06/25/hey-there-hi-there-ohare-alone-time-with-out-tony-award-wi. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
- ^ Julie Yolles (January 10, 2008). "Staging a Coup". Hour Detroit. http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/January-2008/Staging-a-Coup. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
- ^ "A Talk With Denis O'Hare - Take Me Out's Mason Marzac", a CurtainUp interview
- ^ "Denis O'Hare, Star File: Broadway.com Buzz". broadway.com. 2003-02-22. http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Star_File.aspx?ci=25021. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254099/
- ^ Denis O'Hare Drops Some Hints About True Blood Season 3
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
- TonyAwards.com Interview with Denis O'Hare
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (2001–2025) Charles Brown (2001) · Frank Langella (2002) · Denis O'Hare (2003) · Ned Beatty (2004) · Michael Stuhlbarg (2005) · Samuel Barnett (2006) · Boyd Gaines (2007) · Conleth Hill (2008) · Pablo Schreiber (2009) · Santino Fontana (2010)
Complete list · (1975–2000) · (2001–2025) Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Gary Beach (2001) · Shuler Hensley (2002) · Dick Latessa (2003) · Raúl Esparza (2004) · Denis O'Hare (2005) · Jim Dale (2006) · Gavin Lee (2007) · Boyd Gaines (2008) · Gregory Jbara (2009) · Christopher Fitzgerald (2010) · John Larroquette (2011)
Complete list · (1975–2000) · (2001–2025) Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (2001–2025) Robert Sean Leonard (2001) · Frank Langella (2002) · Denis O'Hare (2003) · Brían F. O'Byrne (2004) · Liev Schreiber (2005) · Ian McDiarmid (2006) · Billy Crudup (2007) · Jim Norton (2008) · Roger Robinson (2009) · Eddie Redmayne (2010) · John Benjamin Hickey (2011)
Complete list · (1949–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–2025) Categories:- 1962 births
- Living people
- People from Kansas City, Missouri
- American people of Irish descent
- American film actors
- American film producers
- American musical theatre actors
- American stage actors
- American television actors
- Clarence Derwent Award winners
- Drama Desk Award winners
- Gay actors
- LGBT people from the United States
- Northwestern University alumni
- Tony Award winners
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