John Benjamin Hickey
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| Born | June 25, 1963 Plano, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1992–present |
John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart.
On Broadway, he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995, a role he would recreate for the 1997 film version. He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, and played Reverend John Hale in the Tony-nominated 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Currently, he plays Sean, the homeless brother of Cathy (played by actress Laura Linney), the main character, on the Showtime series, The Big C.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Education
Hickey graduated from Plano Sr. High School, Plano Texas 1981 and attended Texas State University - San Marcos from 1981–1983 and was active in the theater department.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree in English at Fordham University in 1985.[2]
[edit] Film
On film, in addition to his role in Love! Valour! Compassion! Hickey played the lead in the 1998 independent film Finding North and played American novelist and playwright Jack Dunphy in the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous, along with supporting roles in a number of other films, including The Ice Storm and The Anniversary Party. Hickey's best-known television role is perhaps that of Philip Stoddard on the short-lived gay-themed ABC sitcom It's All Relative. Since It's All Relative, Hickey has made many other television appearances on shows like Alias, Law & Order, Brothers & Sisters, Stacked, Undercover History, Heartland, In Plain Sight, and most recently Law & Order: Los Angeles. He appeared in Flightplan as David, Flags of Our Fathers as Keyes Beech, Freedom Writers as Brian Gelford, Helen Hunt 's directorial debut Then She Found Me as Alan, the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, as Deputy Mayor LaSalle, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sequel to the 2007 film, playing Theodore Galloway, a fictionalized anti-Transformer National Security Advisor. He was also in Ted Demme's The Bet and The Ref. He was also in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.
[edit] Theatre
In addition to Cabaret, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and The Crucible, he was cast in the 2011 revival of The Normal Heart, for which he earned a Tony Award. He has also been a production of Mary Stuart.[3]
[edit] Personal life
Hickey was born in Plano, Texas. He is openly gay; his longtime partner is Modern Family writer Jeffrey Richman. He is good friends with actress Sarah Jessica Parker with whom he attended the premiere of his film, Flags of Our Fathers.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://txstateu.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/texas-state-updates-tony-award-winner/
- ^ http://fordhamnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/fordham-alumnus-wins-tony-award.html
- ^ http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-EXCLUSIVE-2011-Tony-Award-Interview-with-John-Benjamin-Hickey-20110514_page2
- ^ Gay Arts & Entertainment on BGay.com - Gay Arts, Entertainment, Movies, Artists, and Gossip
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: John Benjamin Hickey |
- John Benjamin Hickey at the Internet Movie Database
- John Benjamin Hickey at the Internet Broadway Database
- John Benjamin Hickey at AllRovi
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