Biography
A stage-trained actor from the age of 12, Leonard became known for his earnest and touching dramatic performances throughout his career. Dividing his time equally between stage and screen, Leonard managed to maintain success in both mediums, starring opposite some of the business' most acclaimed actors, including Paul Newman, Glenn Close and Kenneth Branagh. Making the shift to series television in 2004, Leonard joined the cast of the hit …
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Career Milestones
2004 | Cast as Dr. James Wilson on Fox's medical drama "House" | |
2003 | Appeared in the Broadway production of "The Violet Hour" | |
2001 | Stepped into the title role of the hit revival of the Broadway musical "The Music Man" (August) | |
2001 | Portrayed the young incarnation of A E Housman in Tom Stoppard's play "The Invention of Love"; earned Tony Award | |
2001 | Had villainous role in "Driven" | |
2001 | Cast as a naval investigator in the fact-based drama "A Glimpse of Hell" (FX Channel) | |
1999 | Played pivotal role of Don Parritt in acclaimed Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" | |
1998 | Had featured role in Whit Stillman's "The Last Days of Disco" | |
1997 | Appeared as Tom Wingfield in Baltimore production of "The Glass Menagerie" | |
1997 | Played a young man dying of AIDS who returns home in Christopher Reeve's directorial debut, "In the Gloaming" (HBO) | |
1997 | Revisited Nazi era, this time as a young Nazi officer, in Billy Hopkins' "I Love You, I Love You Not" | |
1996 | Appeared in CBS "Hallmark Hall of Fame" adaptation of Off-Broadway play "The Boys Next Door" | |
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" | |
1995 | Had featured role in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" | |
1994 | Acted in Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence" | |
1993 | Played Claudio (of Florence) in Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" | |
1993 | Starred as jazz-obsessed German youth who must come to terms with rise of fascism in Nazi-era "Swing Kids" (met Kenneth Branagh) | |
1993 | Earned Tony nomination for his performance in the Roundabout Theatre revival of "Candida" | |
1990 | Appeared as Douglas Bridge, son of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, in Merchant-Ivory's "Mr & Mrs Bridge" | |
| Formed Malaparte. Theater Company (NYC) with, among others, "Dead Poets" pal Ethan Hawke | ||
1989 | Delivered sensitive performance as the would-be actor driven to suicide by his father in Peter Weir's "Dead Poets Society" | |
1988 | First lead role in a feature, "My Best Friend Is a Vampire" | |
1987 | Portrayed Christopher Morcum in Broadway production of "Breaking the Code" | |
1986 | Made stage musical debut in Playwrights Horizons workshop production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" (date approximate) | |
1986 | Feature acting debut, "The Manhattan Project" | |
1986 | Starred in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" in Ogunquit, Maine at age 17; made Broadway acting debut, reprising role as Eugene in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" | |
1985 | Appeared Off-Broadway in "Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name"; credited as Robert Leonard | |
| Understudied three roles in Alberto Innaurato's "Coming of Age in Soho" at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theatre | ||
1981 | Made stage debut at age 12 as Artful Dodger in "Oliver!" at New Players Summerstock Theatre, New Jersey | |
Awards
2009 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in House |
2001 | Tony Award for Actor (Featured Role--Play) |