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Date of Birth

17 January 1962, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Birth Name

Denis Patrick Seamus O'Hare

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse

Hugo Redwood

(28 July 2011 - present) 1 child

Trivia

Graduate, Northwestern University

Performed in "Cabaret" on Broadway as Herr Ludwig with Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson.

Won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for his performance as Mason Marzac in Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out." Was nominated the next year, in 2004, as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for playing Garfield assassin Charles J. Guiteau in "Assassins."

Graduate, Brother Rice High School Class of '80

Spent 12 years as a stage actor in Chicago before moving to New York.

Made his Broadway debut in "Racing Demon" (1995)

Won the 2003 Clarence Derwent Award for "Take Me Out", presented to outstanding newcomers to the New York theater scene.

In addition to his Tony Award for "Take Me Out", he also won the 2003 Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

For his performance as Oscar in Broadway's "Sweet Charity," he won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He was also nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award (Best Actor in a Musical) and two Broadway.com Audience Awards, for Favorite Featured Actor in a Musical and Favorite Onstage Pair (with Christina Applegate).

Born in Kansas City, Missouri but raised in Southfield, Michigan.

Nominated five times for the Distinguished Performance Award from the Drama League, for "Take Me Out" (2003), "Assassins" (2004), "Sweet Charity" (2006), "Inherit the Wind" and "A Spanish Play" (2007) and "Uncle Vanya" (2008).

Has been compared physically to William Schallert.

He was awarded the 1986 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Never the Sinner" at the Stormfield Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Hauptmann" at the Stormfield Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Voice of the Prairie" at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 1988 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Sneaky Feelings" at the Remains Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Music from a Locked Room" at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

He was awarded the 1992 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Hauptmann" at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

Irish-American.

Holds an Irish Passport.

Personal Quotes

[after being detained at an airport as a possible terrorist] For the first time I feel like leaving the country. America is becoming a nightmare with the permanent war culture brought on by this President. I don't recognize my country. - November 2005

[on his 2011 marriage to Hugo Redwood, in "Out" Magazine] We got married because we wanted to do it quickly for fear that they would take it away again, like they did in California. Getting married was a political act because so many people fought so hard for it. Also, every time I say the word "husband" and somebody flinches, I am helping to teach society this is the way it will be. This is the way it is.