Robert Leonard
Milestones
- Birthplace: Westwood, New Jersey, USA
- 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