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Peter C. MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for the roles of the...

Peter C. MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for the roles of the eccentric and abnormal John Cage in the FOX comedy-drama Ally McBeal, as Tom Lennox in the sixth season of the Fox show 24, and as Alan Birch in Chicago Hope. He is currently starring in the CBS crime drama NUMB3RS as physicist Dr. Larry Fleinhardt. MacNicol was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, the youngest of five children of Barbara and John Johnson, who was an Episcopal priest. MacNicol began his career studying at the University of Dallas and continued at the University of Minnesota. While in Minnesota, he performed in two seasons at the Guthrie Theater. A New York talent agent spotted him and told him to make a move to Manhattan. MacNicol was cast in the off-Broadway play, Crimes of the Heart. The production eventually moved to Broadway, and MacNicol won the Theatre World Award. It was also during this production that a casting agent noticed him and called him in to read for his eventual role in Sophie's Choice. In 1981 he appeared in his first film Dragonslayer, opposite Sir Ralph Richardson. In 1987, he starred in the Trinity Repertory Company's original production of the