Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard: Plays Dr. James Wilson
| Birth Name: |
Robert Lawrence Leonard |
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| Interviews: |
Interview November 2009 |
| Birth Date: |
February 28, 1969 |
| Astrological Sign: |
Pisces |
| Birth Place: |
Ridgewood, New Jersey |
| Spouse(s): |
- He is married to Gabriella Salick (1 child)
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| Education: |
- Attended Columbia University, New York, NY
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| Awards: |
- Tony Awards
- 2003 Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play – Nominee
- 2001 Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play – Winner
- 1993 Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play – Nominee
- Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2009 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for: “House M.D.” (2004) – Nominated
Shared with: Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Peter Jacobson, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Morrison, Kal Penn, Jesse Spencer, Olivia Wilde
- Young Artist Awards
- 1994 Outstanding Youth Ensemble in a Motion Picture for: Swing Kids (1993) – Nominated
Shared with: Christian Bale, David Tom, Frank Whaley
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| Fast Facts: |
- Began acting in summer stock at age 12, making his debut as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!.
- Made Broadway debut in 1986 as a replacement in the role of Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs.
- Breakthrough movie role was as sensitive student Neil Perry in 1989’s Dead Poets Society.
- Won the 2001 Tony Award (Best Featured Actor in a Play) in The Invention of Love, playing British poet A.E. Housman from ages 18 to 26.
- Robert’s natural hair color is brown.
- Robert is in the book entitled Conversations In The Wings, edited by Roy Harris which is a book of 13 actors who address questions about technique and preparation for plays.
- Robert has done some audio books such as The Secret History by Donna Tartt and The Light In The Forest by Conrad Richer which is a children’s book.
- Robert received an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play The Invention of Love (2001)
- In 1985 Robert appeared Off-Broadway in Sally’s Gone, She Left Her Name (credited as Robert Leonard)
- Robert has one brother called Sean Robert Leonard.
- Robert’s nickname is Bobby.
- Robert dated Gwyneth Paltrow
- Robert is left handed.
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| Quotes: |
- Two of my favorite movies are The Misfits and All The President’s Men. Man, there’s a lot of testosterone in those two films. I pick Misfits because you rarely get to hear lines like when Marilyn Monroe asks Gable how they’re going to get home and he answers: ‘Just head for that big star straight on…It’ll take us right home.’ And President’s Men because of when Hoffman lights up in an elevator and Redford says to him, ‘Do you smoke everywhere?"
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