Frank Wood | |
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Born | May 6, 1960 |
Education | Wesleyan University (BA) New York University (MFA) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1998–present |
Father | Robert Coldwell Wood |
Relatives | Maggie Hassan (sister) |
Frank Wood (born May 6, 1960) is an American actor who has appeared in various television, film, and theatre roles. [1]
Wood is the son of Margaret (Byers) and Robert Coldwell Wood, a political scientist who briefly served as United States secretary of housing and urban development in the Lyndon Johnson administration. [2] His sister is U.S. senator and former governor of New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan. Wood attended the Buxton School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1984 and a MFA from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. [3] [4]
Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Side Man . He played Bill in August: Osage County on Broadway. [5] From September 14, 2010, to March 27, 2011, Wood starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America staged by the Signature Theatre Company in Manhattan. [6] [7] [8] Wood played Gary Lucas in Greetings from Tim Buckley , a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. [9] [10]
In 2016, Wood played the Night Clerk in Eugene O'Neill's play Hughie opposite Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in New York City, directed by Michael Grandage. [11]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2000 | Down to You | Doctor | |
2000 | Small Time Crooks | Oliver | |
2000 | Pollock | Frank Pollock | |
2000 | Thirteen Days | McGeorge Bundy | |
2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Hotel Manager | |
2002 | In America | Paediatrician | |
2002 | People I Know | Michael Wormly | |
2004 | Winter Solstice | Bill Brennan | |
2004 | King of the Corner | Anthony Berenson | |
2004 | Keane | Assaulted Commuter | |
2004 | The Undeserved | Alex Montgomery | |
2007 | Flakes | Bruce | |
2007 | The Favor | Lawrence | |
2007 | Michael Clayton | Gerald | |
2007 | Dan in Real Life | Howard | |
2008 | Lucky Days | Dr. Ginger | |
2008 | Changeling | Ben Harris | |
2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Evaluative Services Doctor | |
2009 | The Missing Person | Harold Fullmer | |
2009 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Police Commissioner Sterman | |
2012 | Greetings from Tim Buckley | Gary Lucas | |
2014 | St. Vincent | Maggie's Attorney | |
2016 | The Phenom | Richard Boyer | |
2016 | Custody | Uncle Frank | |
2016 | Gold | Scottie Nevins | |
2017 | Detroit | Robert Edward DeMascio | |
2018 | Isle of Dogs | Simul-Translate Machine | Voice |
2019 | Joker | Dr. Benjamin Stoner | |
2020 | Lapsis | John | |
2022 | She Said | Matt Purdy |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1998 | Law & Order | Dr. Rutland | Episode: "Scrambled" |
2001 | The Sopranos | Dean Ross | Episode: "Second Opinion" |
2001 | Third Watch | Third Watch | Episode: "Honor" |
2002 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | George Weems | Episode: "Chinoiserie" |
2004 | Medium | Crazed Man | Episode: "Pilot" |
2007–2009 | Flight of the Conchords | Greg | 17 episodes |
2010 | Bored to Death | Dr. O'Connor | Episode: "Escape from the Castle!" |
2011 | Lights Out | Dr. Stuart Wexler | Episode: "The Comeback" |
2012 | Modern Family | Reporter | Episode: "Election Day" |
2012 | Grey's Anatomy | Frank Wheeler | Episode: "The Girl With No Name" |
2012 | The Good Wife | Dr. Joseph Lidera | Episode: "And the Law Won" |
2012–2021 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dr. Truman / Andrew Lennox | 4 episodes |
2013 | Elementary | EROC Supervisor | Episode: "Snow Angels" |
2013 | The Newsroom | Shep Pressman | 2 episodes |
2013 | Blue Bloods | Father Markhum | Episode: "Lost and Found" |
2014 | The Divide | Griffen Donleavey | Episode: "I'm for Justice" |
2014–2015 | The Knick | Mr. Havershorn | 10 episodes |
2016 | Younger | Dr. Kigner | Episode: "Un-Jaded" |
2016 | Girls | Charlie's Client | Episode: "The Panic in Central Park" |
2016 | The Night Of | Medical Examiner | 4 episodes |
2016–2017 | The Get Down | Ed Koch | 6 episodes |
2018 | Mozart in the Jungle | Keith Rutledge | 2 episodes |
2019 | The Blacklist | Gerald Klepper | Episode: "The Ethicist (No. 91)" |
2019 | Prodigal Son | Dr. Carl Mitchell | Episode: "Fear Response" |
2021 | Bull | Dr. Edwin Pruitt | Episode: "Cloak and Beaker" |
2021 | Evil | Brother Jacob | Episode: "S Is for Silence" |
2023 | The Crowded Room | Dean Martin Hughs | 2 episodes |
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