Robert Leonard
Milestones
- Birthplace: Westwood, New Jersey
- Birthday: February 28, 1969
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2004
Cast as Dr. James Wilson on Fox s medical drama House
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2003
Appeared in the Broadway production of The Violet Hour
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2001
Cast as a naval investigator in the fact-based drama A Glimpse of Hell (FX Channel)
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2001
Had villainous role in Driven
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2001
Portrayed the young incarnation of A E Housman in Tom Stoppard s play The Invention of Love ; earned Tony Award
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2001
Stepped into the title role of the hit revival of the Broadway musical The Music Man (August)
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1999
Played pivotal role of Don Parritt in acclaimed Broadway revival of Eugene O Neill s The Iceman Cometh
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1998
Had featured role in Whit Stillman s The Last Days of Disco
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1997
Appeared as Tom Wingfield in Baltimore production of The Glass Menagerie
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1997
Played a young man dying of AIDS who returns home in Christopher Reeve s directorial debut, In the Gloaming (HBO)
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1997
Revisited Nazi era, this time as a young Nazi officer, in Billy Hopkins I Love You, I Love You Not
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1996
Appeared in CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of Off-Broadway play The Boys Next Door
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1996
Portrayed sympathetic prison guard Henry Lesser who encourages 1920s serial killer Carl Panzram to write about his life in Killer: A Journal of Murder
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1995
Had featured role in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard s Arcadia
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1994
Acted in Martin Scorsese s The Age of Innocence
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1993
Earned Tony nomination for his performance in the Roundabout Theatre revival of Candida
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1993
Played Claudio (of Florence) in Branagh s Much Ado About Nothing
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1993
Starred as jazz-obsessed German youth who must come to terms with rise of fascism in Nazi-era Swing Kids (met Kenneth Branagh)
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1990
Appeared as Douglas Bridge, son of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, in Merchant-Ivory s Mr & Mrs Bridge
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1989
Delivered sensitive performance as the would-be actor driven to suicide by his father in Peter Weir s Dead Poets Society
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1988
First lead role in a feature, My Best Friend Is a Vampire
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1987 to 1988
Portrayed Christopher Morcum in Broadway production of Breaking the Code
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1986
Feature acting debut, The Manhattan Project
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1986
Made stage musical debut in Playwrights Horizons workshop production of Stephen Sondheim s Into the Woods (date approximate)
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1986
Starred in Brighton Beach Memoirs in Ogunquit, Maine at age 17; made Broadway acting debut, reprising role as Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs
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1985
Appeared Off-Broadway in Sally s Gone, She Left Her Name ; credited as Robert Leonard
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1981
Made stage debut at age 12 as Artful Dodger in Oliver! at New Players Summerstock Theatre, New Jersey
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Formed Malaparte. Theater Company (NYC) with, among others, Dead Poets pal Ethan Hawke
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Understudied three roles in Alberto Innaurato s Coming of Age in Soho at the New York Shakespeare Festival s Public Theatre