Victor Garber

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Victor Garber
Victor Garber, April 2006
Born	Victor Joseph Garber March 16, 1949 (1949-03-16) (age 60) London, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actor/Singer
Years active	1958–present

Victor Joseph Garber (born March 16, 1949) is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is perhaps best known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Television 5 Broadway 6 Off-Broadway 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Personal life

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Garber was born in London, Ontario, Canada and is of Russian descent. He went to Ryerson Elementary School and got his acting start at the London Little Theater. When Garber was 12 he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. His mother, Hope Garber (née Wolf), was an actress, singer and hostess of At Home with Hope Garber, a morning television show in London, Ontario. Like his father Joe (who passed away in 1995), she suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.

[edit] Career

Garber began acting at the age of nine, joining the University of Toronto's Hart House at age 15. In 1967, he formed a folk band called The Sugar Shoppe with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood and Lee Harris. The group enjoyed moderate success, even performing on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson before breaking up.^[1] He has worked in various American and Canadian movies and television, including James Cameron's Titanic (1997), in which he used a Northern Irish accent to play the shipbuilder Thomas Andrews, and CTV's E.N.G. (1991–1993), on which he had a recurring guest role.

Other well-known appearances include Godspell (1973) as Jesus, Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Legally Blonde (2001), Annie (1999), and Tuck Everlasting (2002). In the late 1980s, he received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Liberace in the made-for-TV movie, Liberace: Behind the Music.

He is most well known for his portrayal of Jack Bristow on ABC's show, Alias, for which he earned three Emmy nominations. He recently appeared on the now-cancelled television series Justice on FOX and ABC's Eli Stone. His most recent TV appearance is as a mysterious character named "Olivier Roth" in 4 episodes of the Canadian science drama ReGenesis. He appeared in the third episode of the FOX series Glee.

He appeared on Broadway in the original productions of Deathtrap, Sweeney Todd, and Noises Off and in the original off-Broadway cast of Assassins, as well as in the 1990s revival of Damn Yankees. He has been nominated for four Tony awards and opened the Tony Awards program in 1994 (the year he was nominated for the Tony Award for Damn Yankees). In 1998, he co-stared on Broadway in the Tony Award winning play Art with Alan Alda and Alfred Molina. He continues to be a sought-after theatrical performer in musicals, comedies and dramatic productions. In 2005, he played the role of Frederic in the LA Opera's production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music. He played the male lead in a critically hailed Encores presentation of Follies in 2007, with Donna Murphy. In mid-2007, he played the role of Garry Essendine in a production of Noel Coward's Present Laughter at Boston's Huntington Theatre.^[2] He is slated to reprise the role in the Roundabout Theatre's New York production in winter 2009-2010. In 2009, Victor Garber took on the role of he DC Comics super villain Sinestro in the direct-to-video animated film film, Green Lantern: First Flight. Also in 2009, Garber played a Klingon interrogator in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie; however, his scenes were deleted from the finished film. ^[3]

[edit] Filmography

• Godspell (1973)
• Liberace: Behind the Music (1988)
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Exotica (1994)
• Jeffrey (1995)
• The First Wives Club (1996)
• Titanic (1997)
• The Absolution of Anthony (1997)
• Annie (1999)
• Invisible Child (1999)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• Tuck Everlasting (2002)
• Home Room (2002)
• The Music Man (2003)
• Milk (2008)
• Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
• Star Trek (2009) - deleted scene
• You Again (2010)

[edit] Television

• I Had Three Wives (1985)
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987–1988)
• E.N.G. (1991–1993)
• Queen (1993)
• Dieppe (1993)
• Cinderella (1997)
• Annie (1999)
• Frasier - Guest Star (2000)
• Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
• Call Me Claus (2001)
• Alias (2001–2006)
• The Music Man (2003)
• Will & Grace (2004)
• Justice (2006)
• ReGenesis (2007-2008)
• Ugly Betty (2007)
• Eli Stone (2008-2009)
• Waking the Baby Mammoth (2009)
• The Last Templar (2009)
• Glee (2009)
• Nurse Jackie - Guest Star (2009)

[edit] Broadway

• The Shadow Box - 1977
• Tartuffe - 1977
• Deathtrap - 1978 (Tony Nomination)^[4]
• Sweeney Todd - 1979
• They're Playing Our Song - 1981
• Little Me - 1982 (Tony Nomination)
• Noises Off - 1983
• You Never Can Tell - 1986
• The Devil's Disciple - 1988
• Lend Me a Tenor - 1989 (Tony Nomination)
• Two Shakespearean Actors - 1992
• Damn Yankees - 1994 (Tony Nomination)
• Arcadia - 1995
• 'Art' - 1998
• Present Laughter - 2010

[edit] Off-Broadway

• Ghosts - 1973
• Joe's Opera -1975
• Cracks - 1976
• Wenceslas Square - 1988
• Love Letters - 1989
• Assassins - 1990

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Victor Garber at the Internet Movie Database
• Victor Garber at the Internet Broadway Database
• Victor Garber at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Victor Garber Interview on Fox News Radio