1962-01-17

Today’s the birthday of Tony-award winning American actor and singer DENIS O’HARE.  O’Hare won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, where his character’s lengthy monologues in which he slowly falls in love with the game of baseball were considered the main reason for his award. He also won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Oscar Lindquist in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity.

In 2004 he played Charles J. Guiteau in the Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, for which he was nominated for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Award. He appeared on Broadway in the 1998 revival of Cabaret.  He has appeared as a guest star on several episodes of Law & Order and Brothers & Sisters. His feature film credits include 21 Grams, Garden State, Derailed, Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart, Half Nelson, and Milk. In 2007, he appeared in the film Charlie Wilson’s War. In 2009 O’Hare portrayed Phillip Steele (an amalgam character based on Quentin Crisp’s friends Phillip Ward and Tom Steele) in the television biopic on Quentin Crisp, An Englishman in New York.

In 2012, O’Hare starred alongside Amy Adams and Donna Murphy as the Baker in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods at The Public Theater. The production played at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, NYC, from July to September 2012. In 2013, O’Hare returned to American Horror Story for its third season, American Horror Story: Coven, where he portrayed Spalding, the house butler. O’Hare portrayed con artist, Stanley on the fourth season of the series, American Horror Story: Freak Show. In 2015, O’Hare played a hotel worker, Liz Taylor on the fifth season of the series, American Horror Story: Hotel, and in 2016, he was Dr. Elias Cunningham on the sixth season, American Horror Story: Roanoke. Most recently, O’Hare portrayed the Provincetown resident Holden Vaughn on the tenth season, American Horror Story: Double Feature. In 2023-2024, he played Man in Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are

O’Hare is out gay and has been married to designer Hugo Redwood since 2011. The couple have an adopted son.