K. Todd Freeman

K. Todd Freeman
Born Kenneth Todd Freeman
(1965-07-09) July 9, 1965
Houston, Texas
Occupation Actor
Years active 1990present

Kenneth Todd Freeman (born July 9, 1965) is an American actor in theatre, television, and film. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards over the course of his career and has won one Drama Desk Award.

Life and career

Born in Houston, Texas, Freeman went to the local High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before later graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1987.[1]

Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1993.[2] In the same year, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his lead performance in the Apartheid drama The Song of Jacob Zulu. More recently, Freeman has played the role of Doctor Dillamond from Wicked in the first North American tour, Chicago and Broadway productions. In 2015, he was nominated for his second Tony Award, this time for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the dark comedy Airline Highway, and he also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role.

He has also had supporting roles in various films such as Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Cider House Rules (1999), and The Dark Knight (2008). On television, he is perhaps best known for his recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as "Mr. Trick".

He will play Mr. Poe in the Netflix TV Series A Series Of Unfortunate Events, starting filming in March 2016.

Work

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
1993 The Song of Jacob Zulu Jacob Zulu Broadway
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
2001 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Dr. Spivey Broadway
2013 Fetch Clay, Make Man Stepin Fetchit Off-Broadway
2014 Wicked Dr. Dillamond Broadway
2015 Airline Highway Sissy Na Na Broadway
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Nominated - Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1990 Street Hunter Pretzel
1991 Ricochet Talk Show Guest
Grand Canyon Wipe
1994 Full Cycle Clerk
1995 Jeffrey Barney's Waitor
1996 Eraser Duton
House Arrest Officer Davis
1997 Grosse Point Blank Kenneth McCullers
The End of Violence Six O One
1998 Life in the Fast Lane Stan/Suzie
1999 The Cider House Rules Muddy
2008 The Dark Knight Polk
The Lucky Ones Detective # 2
2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Baxter Stockman
2015 Anesthesia Joe

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1991 A Different World Novian Winters TV series
The Killing Mind Fred Robinson TV movie
1992 Brooklyn Bridge Scoot TV series
1993 Tracey Takes on New York Byron TV movie
Ghostwriter Malenga TV series
1995 Strange Luck Driving Instructor TV series
1995-97 NYPD Blue Arthur Cartwell 3 episodes
1996 Sisters Chardonay/Larry 2 episodes
1996-97 Dangerous Minds Jerome Griffin 17 episodes
1998 Touched by an Angel Vincent 'Vinegar' Finegar TV series
1998-99 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mr. Trick 4 episodes
2011 A Gifted Man Officer Dale Woodrow TV series
2014 Believe Gary Wise TV series
Elementary Raphael TV series
2016 A Series of Unfortunate Events Mr. Poe TV series

References

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