Denis O'Hare (born January 17, 1962) is an American Tony Award-winning actor.
O'Hare was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's theatre school. O'Hare is Irish American and has an Irish passport. He came out as gay during high school.
O'Hare won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, where his character's lengthy monologues in wh...
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Denis O'Hare (born January 17, 1962) is an American Tony Award-winning actor.
O'Hare was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's theatre school. O'Hare is Irish American and has an Irish passport. He came out as gay during high school.
O'Hare won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, where his character's lengthy monologues in which he slowly falls in love with the game of baseball were considered the main reason for his award. He also won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Oscar Lindquist in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity.
In 2004 he played Charles J. Guiteau in the Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, for which he was nominated for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Award. He lost to co-star Michael Cerveris who played John Wilkes Booth. Before appearing in those shows,...
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