Victor Garber

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Victor Garber (2006)

Victor Garber (born March  16, 1949 in London , Ontario ) is a Canadian actor .

Life

He is the son of Hope Garber (née Wolf, a well-known Canadian entertainer) and Joe Garber. He has a brother and a sister. At age 12, Garber was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes . He attended Ryerson Elementary School.

Garber turned to acting as a child and later took acting classes at Hart House at the University of Toronto .

He then began a career as a folk singer and formed the band The Sugar Shoppe in 1967 with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood and Lee Harris . The band was relatively successful and had four top 40 hits in Canada. Then Garber turned back to acting and was particularly active on Broadway , where he took part in comedies and musicals. For his role performances in the productions Deathtrap , Little Me , Lend Me a Tenor and Damn Yankees , he received nominations for a Tony Award . In 1993 he starred opposite Tom Hanks in the movie Sleepless in Seattle and alongside Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane in Help! Everyone is the greatest with.

Garber lives openly gay with the Canadian artist Rainer Andreesen in New York City and has been married to him since 2015.

One of his greatest cinema appearances to date was in 1997, the role as Thomas Andrews , the designer of the Titanic, in the blockbuster Titanic by James Cameron . In 2008 he played the role of Mayor George Moscone in the film Milk by Gus Van Sant about the gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk .

He achieved greater fame from 2001 to 2006 with the successful television series Alias ​​- The Agent as Jack Bristow , one of the leading roles for which he received three Emmy nominations. In the series Eli Stone he played the role of Jordan Wethersby , the owner of the legal office and manager of Eli Stone . In 2011, Garber took on the speaking role of Charles "Charlie" Townsend in the short-lived remake of the television series Charlie's Angels . He also became known for the role of Martin Stein , a part of Firestorm in the DC Universe , in particular in the TV series The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Victor Garber  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Victor Garber confirms he is gay and in longterm relationship with artist Rainer Andreesen at dailymail.co.uk, accessed on January 26, 2013
  2. ^ William Keck: Keck's Exclusives: How Victor Garber Became Charlie's Angels' Charlie . TVGuide.com . September 23, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Garber, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH London , Ontario , Canada