John Benjamin Hickey
John Benjamin Hickey | |
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![]() Hickey at the 13th Annual Broadway Barks Benefit, at Shubert Alley in New York City on July 9, 2011 | |
Born |
Plano, Texas, U.S. | June 25, 1963
Education |
Texas State University, San Marcos Fordham University (BA) Juilliard School (GrDip) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1990–present |
Partner(s) | Jeffrey Richman (2003–present) |
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 1981–1983, 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,[16] which concluded on December 15, 2015 after two seasons and 23 episodes.
In 2015, he appeared Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in the play Dada Woof Papa Hot by Peter Parnell.[17]
Personal life
Hickey is openly gay.[18]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1991 | Dangerous Music | Tyler | Short film |
1992 | The Bet | Henry | Short film |
1994 | Only You | Dwayne | |
1994 | The Ref | Old Baybrook Policeman | |
1995 | Comfortably Numb | Priest | |
1996 | Eddie | Joe Nader | |
1996 | Sin #8 | N/A | Short film |
1997 | The Ice Storm | Mark Boland | |
1997 | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Arthur Pape | |
1998 | Finding North | Travis Furlong | |
1999 | The General's Daughter | Captain Goodson | |
1999 | The Bone Collector | Dr. Barry Lehman | |
2001 | The Anniversary Party | Jerry Adams | |
2002 | Changing Lanes | Carlyle | |
2005 | Flightplan | David | |
2006 | The Ex | Wesley's dad | |
2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Sergeant Keyes Beech | |
2006 | Infamous | Jack Dunphy | |
2007 | Freedom Writers | Brian Gelford | |
2007 | The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | John Stanton | |
2007 | Then She Found Me | Alan | |
2009 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Deputy Mayor LaSalle | |
2009 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Theodore Galloway | |
2010 | Civil Unions: A Love Story | N/A | Short film |
2012 | My Eleventh | N/A | |
2012 | Pitch Perfect | Dr. Mitchell | |
2014 | Get on Up | Richard | |
2014 | Big Stone Gap | Theodore Tipton | |
2015 | Truth | Mark Wrolstad | |
2016 | Tallulah | Stephen Mooney | |
2016 | Barry | Professor Gray | |
2017 | Hostiles | Captain Royce Tolan | |
2018 | Forever My Girl | Pastor Brian Page | |
2018 | Mapplethorpe | Sam Wagstaff | Post-production |
Television series
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Trent | Episode: "Here's a Quick and Easy Recipe for Leftovers" |
1994 | NYPD Blue | Paul Gaines | Episode: "Good Time Charlie" |
1997 | Nothing Sacred | Dr. Elliott | Episode: "Speaking in Tongues" |
1998 | Law & Order | Charles Thatcher | Episode: "Castoff" |
1998 | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Rick | Episode: "The Greatest Dickdater" |
1998 | Sex and the City | Tom | Episode: "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" |
1999 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Dennis Kohler | Episode: "Zen and Art of Murder" |
2000 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Assistant District Attorney | 2 episodes |
2001 | NYPD Blue | Phillip Connor | Episode: "Mom's Away" |
2001 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Dr. Sidney Cornfeld | Episode: "Slaves of Las Vegas" |
2002–06 | Law & Order | Aaron Solomon | 4 episodes |
2002 | Hack | Dr. Martin Shane | Episode: "Obsession" |
2003–04 | It's All Relative | Philip Stoddard | 22 episodes |
2003 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Randall Fuller | Episode: "Con-Text" |
2005 | Alias | Father Kampinski | Episode: "In Dreams..." |
2006–07 | Undercover History | Narrator | 6 episodes |
2006 | Stacked | Headmaster Keenan | Episode: "The Headmaster" |
2006 | Brothers & Sisters | Major Guinness | Episode: "Light the Lights" |
2007 | Heartland | Bill | Episode: "Pilot" |
2008 | In Plain Sight | Donald Fraser Donald Ferguson | Episode: "Don of the Dead" |
2009 | Timewatch | Narrator | Episode: "The Real Bonnie and Clyde" |
2010–13 | The Big C | Sean Tolkey | 40 episodes |
2010 | Law & Order: LA | Thomas Nelson | Episode: "Pasadena" |
2011–16 | The Good Wife | Neil Gross | 8 episodes |
2011 | A Gifted Man | Ben Tucker | Episode: "In Case of Exposure" |
2012–13 | The Mob Doctor | Mark Easton | 3 episodes |
2012–13 | The New Normal | Father Michael | 3 episodes |
2013 | Hannibal | Dr. Sutcliffe | Episode: "Buffet Froid" |
2014 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Tom Moore | Episode: "Wednesday's Child" |
2014 | Modern Family | Dr. Clark | Episode: "Under Pressure" |
2014–15 | Manhattan | Frank Winter | 22 episodes |
2015 | Difficult People | Fred | Episode: "Pledge Week" |
2017 | The Good Fight | Neil Gross | 2 episodes |
2017 | Mom | Dr. Sellers | Episode: "A Few Thongs and a Hawaiian Funeral" |
Television films
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1994 | Normandy: The Great Crusade | Louis Simpson | |
1999 | The Lady in Question | Paul Kessler | |
2000 | Hamlet | Horatio | |
2000 | Perfect Murder, Perfect Town | N/A | |
2001 | A Glimpse of Hell | N/A | |
2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Rogers Edens | |
2005 | Silver Bells | Lawrence | |
2006 | A House Divided | President Russell | |
2007 | The Hunt for the Boston Strangler | Narrator | |
2007 | Secrets of the Moon Landings | Narrator | |
2008 | Living Proof | Blake Rogers | |
2008 | The Real George Washington | Narrator | |
2009 | Lincoln: American Mastermind | Narrator | |
2017 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Bill Watson |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1992 | The End of the Day | Jonathan Toffler/Young Graydon | Off-Broadway |
1992 | On the Bum | Oskar | Off-Broadway |
1994–1995 | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Arthur Pape | Off-Broadway |
1995 | Broadway | ||
1996 | Blue Window | Griever | Off-Broadway |
1997 | God's Heart | David | Off-Broadway |
1998–1999 | Cabaret | Clifford Bradshaw | Broadway |
2002 | The Crucible | Reverend John Hale | Broadway |
2009 | Mary Stuart | Earl of Leicester | Broadway |
2011 | The Normal Heart | Felix Turner | Broadway |
2015 | Dada Woof Papa Hot | Alan[23][24] | Off-Broadway |
2017 | Six Degrees of Separation | Flan Kittredge | Broadway |
2018 | The Inheritance (play) | Henry Wilcox | Young Vic |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2011 | Tony Awards | Best Featured Actor in a Play | The Normal Heart | Won |
2013 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | The Big C: Hereafter | Nominated |
References
- ↑ "Plano Grad and Tony Award Winning Actor Named Honorary Emcee for Ski Plano 2012" pisd.edu, October 3, 2011
- ↑ Doyle, Miles. "Fordham Alumnus Wins Tony Award", fordham.edu, June 14, 2011
- ↑ "Hickey Bio", tcm.com, accessed October 18, 2016
- ↑ " 'Love! Valour! Compassion!' Broadway", Playbill, accessed October 18, 2016
- ↑ " 'Love! Valour! Compassion!' Film", tcm.com, accessed October 18, 2016
- 1 2 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
- 1 2 3 "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, October 2003, Vol. 12, No. 4, ISSN 1062-7928, p. 40
- ↑ 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'", etonline.com, 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. "Review: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot,’ About Gay Men and Parenthood", The New York Times, November 9, 2015
- ↑ Rorke, Robert (26 June 2011). "'Big C' Break". New York Post.
- ↑ "John Benjamin Hickey Filmography", TCM, accessed October 19, 2016
- ↑ "John Benjamin Hickey Filmography", .allmovie.com, 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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