American actor
John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart .
Early life
Hickey was born in Plano, Texas , and graduated from Plano Sr. High School [1] in 1981. He attended Texas State University - San Marcos from 1981 to 1983, where he was active in the theater department. He earned his bachelor's degree in English at Fordham University in 1985.[2] [3]
Career
On Broadway , he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally 's play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995,[4] a role he recreated for the 1997 film version .[5]
He played supporting roles in a number of films including The Ice Storm (1997)[6] and The Anniversary Party (2001).[7] He has also appeared in Flightplan , Flags of Our Fathers , Freedom Writers , Then She Found Me , Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , The Bet [6] and Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows .[8]
He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret , which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.[9] In that same year, he played the lead in the independent film Finding North .[10]
On Broadway, he played Reverend John Hale in the 2002 revival of Arthur Miller 's The Crucible .[9]
Hickey played American novelist and playwright Jack Dunphy in the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous .[11] Hickey played Philip Stoddard on the short-lived gay-themed sitcom It's All Relative .[12] Since It's All Relative , Hickey has appeared on Alias , Law & Order , Brothers & Sisters , Stacked , Heartland , In Plain Sight , Law & Order: Los Angeles , and Modern Family .
He appeared in the 2011 Broadway revival of The Normal Heart , for which he won the Tony Award, Featured Actor in a Play.[9] He was in the Broadway revival of Mary Stuart in 2009, as the Earl of Leicester.[13] [14]
From 2010 to 2013, he appeared on The Big C and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for the final season of the series,[15] subtitled Hereafter . Hickey starred as scientist Frank Winter on the TV series Manhattan , which concluded on December 15, 2015 after two seasons and 23 episodes.[16]
In 2015, he appeared Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in the play Dada Woof Papa Hot by Peter Parnell.[17]
In 2018 he appeared in the world premiere of Matthew Lopez's new play The Inheritance , inspired by E.M. Forster's novel Howards End , creating the role Henry Wilcox at London's Young Vic and then transferring to the West End.[18]
On September 30, 2021, Hickey was cast as Father Callahan in the adaptation of Stephen King 's Salem's Lot for Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema .[19]
Personal life
Hickey is gay. Since 2003 his partner has been screenwriter and television producer Jeffrey Richman .[20]
Filmography
Film
Source: TCM;[21] AllMovie [22]
Television
Theatre
Source: IBDB,[23] IOBDB[24]
Awards and nominations
References
^ "Plano Grad and Tony Award Winning Actor Named Honorary Emcee for Ski Plano 2012" (Press release). Plano Independent School District. October 3, 2011. Archived from the original on 2016-10-21. Retrieved May 19, 2022 .
^ Doyle, Miles (June 14, 2011). "Fordham Alumnus Wins Tony Award" . Fordham News .
^ "John Benjamin Hickey: Biography" . Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Retrieved May 19, 2022 .
^ "Love! Valour! Compassion!" . Playbill Vault. Retrieved May 19, 2022 .
^ " 'Love! Valour! Compassion!' Film" . TCM . Accessed October 18, 2016.
^ a b "John Benjamin Hickey: Filmography" . TCM . Accessed October 20, 2016.
^ "The Anniversary Party" . AllMovie . Accessed October 20, 2016.
^ "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows" . TCM . Accessed October 18, 2016.
^ a b c "John Benjamin Hickey Broadway" . Playbill . Accessed October 18, 2016.
^ "Finding North" . TCM . Accessed October 18, 2016.
^ "Infamous" . TCM . Accessed October 18, 2016.
^ "Out Front Television: All in the 'Family' " . Out . Vol. 12, no. 4. October 2003. p. 40. ISSN 1062-7928 .
^ Cerasaro, Pat (14 May 2011). "BWW EXCLUSIVE: 2011 Tony Award Interview with John Benjamin Hickey" . BroadwayWorld.com . Retrieved 2014-10-22 .
^ " 'Mary Stuart' Broadway" ibdb.com, accessed October 20, 2016
^ Wieselman, Jarett. "Emmy Hopeful: John Benjamin Hickey - 'The Big C'" . Entertainment Tonight . June 15, 2012.
^ Goldberg, Leslie. "'The Big C's' John Benjamin Hickey to Star in WGN America's 'Manhattan'" . The Hollywood Reporter . February 6, 2014.
^ Isherwood, Charles (November 9, 2015). "Review: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot,’ About Gay Men and Parenthood" . The New York Times .
^ Billington, Michael (March 28, 2018). "The Inheritance review – Angels in America meets Howards End" . The Guardian . London . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-04-25 .
^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (September 30, 2021). " 'Salem's Lot': Stephen King New Line Movie Adds John Benjamin Hickey" . Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved October 29, 2022 .
^ Rorke, Robert (June 26, 2011). " 'Big C' Break" . New York Post .
^ "John Benjamin Hickey Filmography" . TCM . Accessed October 19, 2016.
^ "John Benjamin Hickey Filmography" . AllMovie . Accessed October 19, 2016.
^ "John Benjamin Hickey Broadway" ibdb.com, accessed October 19, 2016
^ "John Benjamin Hickey" lortel.org, accessed February 15, 2018
^ "John Benjamin Hickey" out.com
^ Listing lct.com
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