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Robert Sean Leonard

About this Artist

Robert Sean Leonard most recently appeared on stage as Henry Higgins in Pygmalion at the Williamstown Theater Festival and before that, as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London. He has performed in the Broadway productions of The Invention of Love (Tony Award), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Tony nomination), Born Yesterday, The Violet Hour, The Music Man, The Iceman Cometh, Arcadia, Candida (Tony nomination),Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Speed of Darkness, Breaking the Code and Brighton Beach Memoirs. His Off Broadway credits include Fifth of July, You Never Can Tell and When She Danced. He also appeared in the West End production of Our Town. Regional credits include King Lear, Pygmalion (The Old Globe Theatre), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Huntington Theatre Company), and Glass Menagerie (Center Stage). Born in New Jersey, Mr. Leonard began acting at age 14 at The Public Theater in New York. At 19, he made his film debut in the acclaimed Dead Poets Society. His film credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Age of Innocence, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Swing Kids, Tape, Chelsea Walls and Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco. He appeared for eight seasons on the Fox medical drama “House.”