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Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin

Actor · Born October 25, 1949 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. That same year he starred in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum and played Nick in a highly praised revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow. He also played opposite Kathy Baker in the South Coast Repertory production of The Man from Nebraska in 2006. His most recent stage appearance was in the Broadway production August: Osage County. Kerwin's feature films include Murphy's Romance, Hard Promises, 27 Dresses (as Katherine Heigl's character's father), Torch Song Trilogy, Love Field, Jack, King Kong Lives, The Myth of Fingerprints, and Debating Robert Lee. Kerwin has enjoyed an extensive career in television, beginning with the daytime serial The Young and the Restless in 1976. In addition to many television movies, his credits include a regular role on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, recurring roles on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Chisholms (four 1979 episodes as Gideon Chisholm), Roseanne, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck and Big Love and guest appearances in The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Frasier, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Medium, Without a Trace, and Desperate Housewives. In 2007, he joined the cast of the soap opera One Life to Live. Brian was also in a television movie with Michelle Pfeiffer called Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson. He played her married lover. His name was spelled Brain Kerwin in the credits. Kerwin has been married to Jeanne Marie Troy since September 2, 1990. They have three children, Finn, Matilda, and Brennan. The family lives in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Kerwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acted in 77

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. Beggars and Choosers

    Rob Malone · 42 episodes

  3. The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

    Movie

  4. The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer

    TV

  5. 1998

    Giving Up the Ghost

    Kevin

  6. 1997

    Flash

    David Strong

  7. The Myth of Fingerprints

    Elliot

  8. 1996
  9. Dear Diary

    Tom

  10. Getting Away with Murder

    Marty Lambert

  11. Sins of Silence

    Joey Finn

  12. 1995

    It Came from Outer Space II

    Jack Putnam

  13. Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

    Matt Hollinger

  14. Abandoned and Deceived

    Doug

  15. 1993
  16. 1992
  17. Spies, Inc.

    Jim

  18. Hard Promises

    Walt

  19. Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

    Jack Adkins

  20. 1991

    Switched at Birth

    Robert Mays · 2 episodes

  21. 1990
  22. Challenger

    Captain Michael J. Smith

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. 1988

    Torch Song Trilogy

    Ed Reese

  3. Bluegrass

    Dancy Cutler · 2 episodes

  4. 1987
  5. 1986
  6. 1985
  7. 1984

    Wet Gold

    Ben Keating, the Diver

  8. Nickel Mountain

    George

  9. 1983
  10. Intimate Agony

    Nick Todd

  11. 1982

    The Tragedy of King Lear

    Movie

  12. Miss All-American Beauty

    Michael Carrington

  13. The Blue and the Gray

    Malachy Hale · 3 episodes

  14. 1981
  15. 1980

    Getting Wasted

    Brad

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