Noseworthy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and grew up there. He began performing at age four in productions at Lynn's Broadway United Methodist Church.[1] He graduated from Lynn English High School in 1982[2] and later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Boston Conservatory.[3] He has described his family as union-oriented. His father worked for four decades as an Iron Workers Local 7 member in Boston. Early in his career, Noseworthy joined Actors' Equity and has said that sharing union membership with his father was especially meaningful to them.[1]
Stage career
While still a senior at the Boston Conservatory, Noseworthy began his career in musical theater. In 1988, he joined the national touring production of Cats,[1] and the following year made his Broadway debut as a cast member of Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989).[4] He was an understudy and during that run, when the principal couldn't perform, he became the first and only male actor to perform as Peter Pan in the anthology's production.[5] He also performed as Mark in A Chorus Line in 1990.[6] In 1993, Noseworthy won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alan Strang in a Los Angeles production of Equus.[7]
He later returned to Broadway as Dallas in the musical Sweet Smell of Success (2002)[6]. In December 2005, Noseworthy originated the role of Armand in the musical Lestat during its pre-Broadway run at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, but departed the production in its first week of previews and was replaced by his understudy, Drew Sarich.[8] The next year, he co-starred with Meryl Streep in the Public Theater's 2006 production of Mother Courage and Her Children.[9] In 2018, Noseworthy joined the Canadian cast of the hit musical Come from Away, playing the role of Kevin T.[10] In 2025, he made his debut as a Broadway producer, serving as a lead producer of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical on Broadway.[11]
Film and television career
In the early 1990s, Noseworthy began transitioning to on-screen work, appearing as a skateboarder in Encino Man (1992) and landing a recurring role as Adrian Peterman in the CBS sitcom Teech (1991–1992).[4] His breakthrough came when he starred as Ed Bellamy in MTV's action-adventure series Dead at 21 (1994).[12][13] Around the same time, his film roles included Alive (1993) as Bobby François[14] and S.F.W. (1994) as Joe Dice.[15] Noseworthy went on to play the antagonistic neighbor Eric in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)[4] and took supporting roles in several cult films: he was seen in Barb Wire (1996) and as Justin in the sci-fi horror Event Horizon (1997). In 2000, he portrayed Seaman Bill Wentz in the WWII submarine thriller U-571[9] and had a role in John Waters' Cecil B. Demented.[16]
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