Denis O'Hare

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Denis O'Hare at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

Denis Patrick Seamus O'Hare (* 16th January 1962 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American actor , best known for his winning the Tony Award for performance in the Broadway - play Take Me Out and his role as Russell Edgington in the television series True Blood . Most recently, he played leading roles in the horror series American Horror Story .

life and career

Childhood and youth

Denis O'Hare was on January 16, 1962 Kansas City in the US state of Missouri and grew up in Southfield , a suburb of Detroit , Michigan on. When he was 15, his family moved to Wing Lake , Oakland . In his youth O'Hare was a member of the school choir and at the age of twelve had his first role in a production of the musical Show Boat . At 18, he moved to Chicago to attend the Northwestern University to study theater.

Time at the theater

O'Hare stayed in Chicago after graduating and worked there as a stage actor. In 1992 he moved to New York and made his debut on Broadway in the play Racing Demon after several regional productions under the direction of Richard Eyre . Soon after, he starred in a new production of Cabaret by Rob Marshall and Sam Mendes , which won a Tony Award. He then played the lead role in a production by George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara . Denis O'Hare had his greatest hit on Broadway in 2003 as Mason Marzac in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out . For this role, he received the Tony Award , Drama Desk Award , Outer Critics Circle Award , Obie Award , Lucille Lortel Award and Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Actor . In 2005 he won the Drama Desk Award for Best Supporting Actor in Sweet Charity .

Movie and TV

In 1993 O'Hare took on a small supporting role in the television series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones . In the following years he played small supporting roles, but remained mainly active in the theater. From 2005 he increasingly took on supporting roles. He became known to a wider audience through his portrayals in Charlie Wilson's War and Milk . In 2010, he took on the role of Vampire King Russell Edgington on the HBO television series True Blood . In 2011 he took on one of the leading roles in the first season of the horror television series American Horror Story . In the third , fourth , fifth and sixth season he was part of the regular cast as the main actor.

Personal

Denis O'Hare's grandfather immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1920 . He has American and Irish citizenship .

He has been openly gay since high school and married his partner Hugo Redwood in 2011 , a month after same-sex marriages were allowed in New York.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

year price category title status
1993 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Play Captain Nominated
2003 Broadway.com Audience Award Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play Take me out Won
2003 Clarence Derwent Award Most Promising Male Performer Take me out Won
2003 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Take me out Won
2003 Drama League Award Distinguished performance Take me out Nominated
2003 Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Featured Actor Take me out Won
2003 Obie Award Outstanding performance Take me out Won
2003 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Take me out Won
2003 Tony Award Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Take me out Won
2004 Drama League Award Distinguished performance Assassins Nominated
2004 Tony Award Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Assassins Nominated
2005 Broadway.com Audience Award Favorite Featured Actor in a Musical Sweet Charity Nominated
2005 Broadway.com Audience Award Favorite onstage pair Sweet Charity Nominated
2005 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Sweet Charity Won
2005 Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical Sweet Charity Nominated
2006 Drama League Award Distinguished performance Sweet Charity Nominated
2007 Drama League Award Distinguished performance Inherit the Wind and A Spanish Play Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.curtainup.com/denisohare.html
  3. ↑ http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/29/true-blood-star-weds-gay-partner
personal data
SURNAME O'Hare, Denis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Hare, Denis Patrick Seamus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri , United States