Robert Sean Leonard

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Robert Sean Leonard

Robert Sean Leonard (* 28. February 1969 in Westwood , New Jersey as Robert Lawrence Leonard ) is an American actor . He is best known for his role as Dr. James Wilson in the television series Dr. House and his leading roles in the films The Dead Poets Club (1989; role of Neil Perry ) and Swing Kids (1993). He also plays regularly in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.

Life

Robert Sean Leonard was born Robert Lawrence Leonard in Westwood , New Jersey . His parents, Joyce, a nurse, and Robert Howard, a Spanish teacher, moved with him to Ridgewood . There he graduated from high school before attending Fordham University and Columbia University . Since there is an actor of the same name, he took his brother's name as a second name to the US actor union ( Screen Actors Guild ) join to.

He has been married to Gabriella Salick since 2008 . The trained teacher has been a show jumper for Israel at the Olympic Games for many years and trains for this in Germany and the Netherlands. Their daughter was born in January 2009.

Career

Robert Sean Leonard made his acting debut in 1986 in The Manhattan Project , in which John Lithgow also starred. He then played the lead role of the teenager in love with a bite , who is bitten by a vampire and later hunted by vampire hunters. Leonard had his breakthrough as Neil Perry in the movie The Dead Poets Club by director Peter Weir , in which he can be seen alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke . He was then seen in Mr. & Mrs. Bridge with Oscar winners Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward , who played Leonard's parents, and Kyra Sedgwick as his sister.

For the Riverside Shakespeare Company he played off-Broadway from 1990 to 1991 Romeo in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . In Dinner for Six - Woodstock meets Wall Street , Leonard played an investment banker. In 1993 he starred with Emma Thompson , Keanu Reeves , Denzel Washington , Michael Keaton and Kate Beckinsale in Much Ado About Nothing , a film adaptation of the comedy by William Shakespeare. Here led Kenneth Branagh directed and wrote the screenplay himself. In the same year the two stood together in front of the camera in Swing Kids , a film about the swing movement in Hamburg during the Nazi era. Together with Christian Bale and Frank Whaley, they were nominated for the Young Artist Award for their performance .

In The Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese plays Daniel Day-Lewis his father, Winona Ryder his mother and Michelle Pfeiffer the mistress of his father. In 1996, Leonard landed the lead role of the former prison guard in Killer - The Diary of a Serial Killer who befriends a serial killer (played by James Woods ). In 1997 he starred in At Dusk , a television movie directed by Christopher Reeve , with Bridget Fonda , Whoopi Goldberg and Glenn Close . This was followed in 1998 with films with Kate Beckinsale in The Last Days of Disco and Kiefer Sutherland in Ground Control .

In 2001 he was seen twice at the side of Uma Thurman , in the films Tape (with Ethan Hawke) by Richard Linklater and Chelsea Walls (with Vincent D'Onofrio and Steve Zahn ) by Ethan Hawke. In the film Driven he plays the brother and manager of Jimmy Bly (played by Kip Pardue ) with Sylvester Stallone , Til Schweiger and Burt Reynolds in the leading roles. From 2004 to 2012 Leonard was Dr. James Wilson in the FOX - TV series Dr. House (broadcast in Germany on RTL ), who is the grumpy Dr. Gregory House (portrayed by Hugh Laurie ) is. From 2013 to 2014 Leonard played a supporting role in the sci-fi series Falling Skies . There he was as Dr. See Roger Kadar .

Leonard was nominated for a Tony Award in 1993, 2001 and 2003 , and received it in 2001 for his role as Alfred Edward Housman in Tom Stoppard's play The Invention of Love .

Leonard's German dubbing voice is Robert Missler .

Filmography

Awards

  • 1993: Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Candida
  • 1994: Young Artist Award nomination for Best Young Acting Ensemble for Swing Kids
  • 2001: Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Invention of Love
  • 2003: Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Long Days Journey into Night

Web links

Commons : Robert Sean Leonard  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FEI rider database: Gabriella Salick  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.fei.org  
  2. ↑ Marriage and baby - Gabriella Salick is taking a break. In: pferdenachrichten.de of July 12, 2008. Archived from the original on August 6, 2010. Retrieved on June 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Robert Sean Leonard: "This is my last season of House" http://www.tvline.com/2011/04/robert-sean-leonard-house-leaving-born-yesterday/
  4. ↑ http://www.serienjunkies.de/news/falling-skies-ausblick-staffel-45469.html
personal data
SURNAME Leonard, Robert Sean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonard, Robert Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Westwood , New Jersey , United States