Len Cariou

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Len Cariou at the 2009 Emmy Awards

Leonard Joseph "Len" Cariou (born September 30, 1939 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian actor and composer .

Life

Cariou began his career at the theater in his hometown of Winnipeg, where he has appeared at the Manitoba Theater Center , which he co-founded, since 1958 .

Since the late 1960s he lived near New York City and has since been seen increasingly on Broadway and also off-Broadway . In 1979 he received a Tony Award for his role in the musical Sweeney Todd . Since the mid-1960s, Cariou has also appeared in film and television productions. Cariou has played the role of Henry Reagan in the television series Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York since 2010 . In 2019, he portrayed New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us .

Private

Len Cariou was in a relationship with Glenn Close in the 1970s ; afterwards he married Patricia Otter, the marriage resulted in a daughter. From 1975 to 1978 he was married to Susan Barbara Kapilow; after the divorce, he married Heather Summerhayes on October 25, 1986.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

nomination

  • 1992: Gemini Award for Best Actor for Monkeyhouse
  • 2009: Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In the Storm

Won

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mark Lepage: Winnipeg's Cariou takes pride in Manitoba Theater Center roots . In: Winnipeg Free Press . December 7, 2010.
  2. ^ "Len Cariou - Biography". In: IMDb. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cariou, Len
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cariou, Leonard Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba, Canada