| After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, obtained Equity card working at Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera |
1995 | Moved to NYC; landed role in a touring company of "Miss Saigon" |
1996 | Toured as Billy Bigelow in "Carousel"; staged by Nicholas Hytner |
1997 | Had leading role as Erwin 'Chopin' Bootz, in the musical by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, "Harmony" |
1997 | Portrayed a young reporter in love in the play "Lucky in the Rain" |
1998 | Played a dramatic role in the six-hour stage adaptation of "The Cider House Rules" at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Center |
1999 | Cast as part of an ensemble in the short-lived Broadway musical "The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm" |
1999 | Played the lead role of Jamie, the fact-checker and would-be writer in the Off-Broadway stage musical "Bright Lights, Big City" |
2000 | Played the lead in the stage musical "The Full Monty"; originated part at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre before reprising it on Broadway; earned Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical |
2001 | Made film debut in "My Sister's Wedding" |
2002 | Returned to Broadway as Curly in the revival of "Oklahoma!"; earned Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical |
2003 | Portrayed Joe Pitt in the HBO miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner's award-winning "Angels in America"; directed by Mike Nichols; received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations in 2004 for Supporting Actor in a Miniseries |
2004 | Portrayed Raoul in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," the screen adaptation of the long-running stage musical |
2005 | Played a a sexual predator opposite Ellen Page in the psychological thriller "Hard Candy" |
2006 | Co-starred in Todd Field's "Little Children" opposite Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly |
2006 | Starred in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" |
2008 | Appeared in the Broadway revival of "All My Sons" |
2008 | Co-starred with Kerry Washington as an interracial couple being harassed by a racist cop in Neil LaBute's "Lakeview Terrace" |
2009 | Cast as Nite Owl II in the film adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen" |
2010 | Acted opposite Bradley Cooper and Liam Neeson in the feature film adaptation of "The A-Team" as Lynch, originally played in the 1980s TV series by William Lucking |
2010 | Played the title character in the comedy "Barry Munday" |
2011 | Acted opposite Charlize Theron in "Young Adult," written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman |
2011 | Starred in the horror film "Insidious" |
2011 | Starred on the CBS drama "A Gifted Man" as a neurosurgeon who communicates with the ghost of his ex-wife |
2012 | Cast as the young Elizabeth Shaw's (played as an adult by Noomi Rapace) father in "Prometheus," directed by Ridley Scott |
