Denis O’Hare has established a strong presence in the industry as a skillful, in-demand character actor.
On television, he previously appeared in two seasons of the hit HBO series, True Blood, as “Russell Edgington.” Concurrently, O’Hare was also seen on television in his recurring roles of “Larry Harvey,” in the first installment of the FX series American Horror Story, for which he received an Emmy nomination, and “Judge Charles Abernathy” in the acclaimed CBS series, The Good Wife. O’Hare’s additional television credits include roles on The Comedians, Brothers and Sisters, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: Miami, Bored to Death, Law & Order, and 100 Centre Street.
On screen, O’Hare joined the cast of Dallas Buyers Club and appeared in the independent feature, C.O.G., directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Additionally, he starred in two horror pictures — The Town That Dreaded Sundown and The Pyramid. Other film credits include Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and Kevin MacDonald’s The Eagle, Edge of Darkness, The Proposal, Duplicity, An Englishman in New York, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Milk, Quarantine, Changeling, Baby Mama, Pretty Bird, War, Awake, The Babysitters, Michael Clayton, Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot, A Mighty Heart, Rocket Science, Half Nelson, Stephanie Daley, Derailed, Heights, Garden State, Alejandro González-Iñárritu’s 21 Grams, Sweet and Lowdown, River Red, and St. Patrick’s Day.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, O’Hare was raised in Southfield, Michigan, prior to his graduation from Northwestern University. He spent 12 years as a stage actor in Chicago before moving to New York in 1992. O’Hare made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Racing Demon. He soon returned to the Great White Way in the Tony® Award-winning revival of Cabaret, directed by Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall, before landing the role of “Cusins” in George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara. O’Hare also starred as the Baker in the musical, Into the Woods, as well as in the Off-Broadway production of An Iliad, a one-man stage retelling of Homer’s famous poem, which he co-authored with Lisa Peterson, for which he earned an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, an Obie Award for Special Citation, a Patrick Lee Theater Bloggers Award for Outstanding Solo Show/Performance, as well as Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations.
Among his other theatrical credits include Elling, Inherit the Wind, Take Me Out, for which his role of “Mason Marzac” earned him the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, Lucille Lortel, and Broadway.com Audience Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Assassins, for which he earned a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, and Sweet Charity, for which he earned a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, a nomination for the Outer Critics Circle Award, and two Broadway.com Audience Awards.
Denis O’Hare currently resides in New York City.
