A Tony Award-winning stage and film actor with a boyish charm, Robert Sean Leonard first caught the... (Learn more)
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Robert Sean Leonard’s Milestones
| Formed Malaparte. Theater Company (NYC) with, among others, "Dead Poets" pal Ethan Hawke | |
| Understudied three roles in Alberto Innaurato's "Coming of Age in Soho" at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theatre | |
| 1981 | Made stage debut at age 12 as Artful Dodger in "Oliver!" at New Players Summerstock Theatre, New Jersey |
| 1985 | Appeared Off-Broadway in "Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name"; credited as Robert Leonard |
| 1986 | Feature acting debut, "The Manhattan Project" |
| 1986 | Made stage musical debut in Playwrights Horizons workshop production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" (date approximate) |
| 1986 | Starred in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" in Ogunquit, Maine at age 17; made Broadway acting debut, reprising role as Eugene in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" |
| 1987 - 1988 | Portrayed Christopher Morcum in Broadway production of "Breaking the Code" |
| 1988 | First lead role in a feature, "My Best Friend Is a Vampire" |
| 1989 | Delivered sensitive performance as the would-be actor driven to suicide by his father in Peter Weir's "Dead Poets Society" |
| 1990 | Appeared as Douglas Bridge, son of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, in Merchant-Ivory's "Mr & Mrs Bridge" |
| 1993 | Earned Tony nomination for his performance in the Roundabout Theatre revival of "Candida" |
| 1993 | Played Claudio (of Florence) in Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" |
| 1993 | Starred as jazz-obsessed German youth who must come to terms with rise of fascism in Nazi-era "Swing Kids" (met Kenneth Branagh) |
| 1994 | Acted in Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence" |
| 1995 | Had featured role in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" |
| 1996 | Appeared in CBS "Hallmark Hall of Fame" adaptation of Off-Broadway play "The Boys Next Door" |
| 1996 | Portrayed sympathetic prison guard Henry Lesser who encourages 1920s serial killer Carl Panzram to write about his life in "Killer: A Journal of Murder" |
| 1997 | Appeared as Tom Wingfield in Baltimore production of "The Glass Menagerie" |
| 1997 | Played a young man dying of AIDS who returns home in Christopher Reeve's directorial debut, "In the Gloaming" (HBO) |
| 1997 | Revisited Nazi era, this time as a young Nazi officer, in Billy Hopkins' "I Love You, I Love You Not" |
| 1998 | Had featured role in Whit Stillman's "The Last Days of Disco" |
| 1999 | Played pivotal role of Don Parritt in acclaimed Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" |
| 2001 | Cast as a naval investigator in the fact-based drama "A Glimpse of Hell" (FX Channel) |
| 2001 | Had villainous role in "Driven" |
| 2001 | Portrayed the young incarnation of A E Housman in Tom Stoppard's play "The Invention of Love"; earned Tony Award |
| 2001 | Stepped into the title role of the hit revival of the Broadway musical "The Music Man" (August) |
| 2003 | Appeared in the Broadway production of "The Violet Hour" |
| 2004 | Cast as Dr. James Wilson on Fox's medical drama "House" |
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