Mark Nelson (actor)

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Mark Nelson
Born (1955-09-26) September 26, 1955 (age 69)
Occupation(s)Actor, director, teacher

Mark Nelson (born September 26, 1955) is an American actor, director and teacher.

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Biography

He appeared on Broadway in Angels in America, The Invention of Love, [1] After the Fall and Three Sisters at Roundabout Theatre Company, and the original casts of A Few Good Men, Rumors, Biloxi Blues and Amadeus. For his performance as Einstein in Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile [2] he received the Obie, Drama League, Carbonell and San Francisco Critics Awards. He played Herr Schultz in the 2016 national tour of Cabaret and acted off-Broadway in My Name is Asher Lev [3] for which he received a Lortel nomination.

Other roles include Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at The Shakespeare Theater, [4] Uncle Vanya (in Bartlett Sher's production at the Intiman Theatre), Matt in Talley's Folly (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Bluntschli in Arms and the Man (Long Wharf Theatre) and two solo pieces: I Am My Own Wife [5] by Doug Wright (Carbonell Award) and Underneath the Lintel [6] by Glen Berger (Connecticut Critics Award).

His TV work includes roles on Unforgettable, Law & Order and Spin City. He teaches acting at Princeton University [7] and at New York City's HB Studio. [8] He has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Dept., [9] McCarter Theatre, George Street Playhouse, [10] and Chautauqua Theatre Company, and is a frequent guest director at the Juilliard School. He graduated from Princeton and then studied acting with Uta Hagen. Before Princeton he graduated from Horace Mann School.

In 2013 he received a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. [11]

Filmography

Film and television roles
YearTitleRoleNotes
1980 Friday the 13th Ned RubensteinFeature film
1981 The Chosen Fighting StudentFeature film
1985 Remington Steele LinoEpisode: "Gourmet Steele"
1989 Bloodhounds of Broadway Sam the SkateFeature film
1991 Thirtysomething Leonard KatzEpisode: "Melissa and Men"
1993 The Seventh Coin LibrarianFeature film
1996 Law & Order SteinEpisode: "Custody"
1996 The First Wives Club Eric LoestFeature film
1997 Liberty! The American Revolution LoyalistEpisode: "Are We to Be a Nation? (1783-1788)"
1998 Suddenly Susan PaulEpisode: "Not in This Life"
1998–2000 Spin City TherapistRecurring role (4 episodes)
1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Robert StevensEpisode: "Payback"
1999 Now and Again DoctorEpisode: "A Girl's Life"
2000 Law & Order Julius ReinhardEpisode: "High & Low"
2002 Law & Order: Criminal Intent MancusoEpisode: "Badge"
2002 Ed Sid PenningtonEpisode: "Neighbors"
2004 Law & Order Dr. Stuart BartonEpisode: "Cut"
2007 American Experience Nathaniel PendletonEpisode: "Alexander Hamilton"
2010 Law & Order Symposium OrganizerEpisode: "Brazil"
2013 Unforgettable Dr. Eugene LustigEpisode: "Memory Kings"
2014 The Rewrite JoshFeature film
2014 The Good Wife Principal Adam EnglehardtEpisode: "The Trial"

References

  1. ↑ Brantley, Ben (30 March 2001). "THEATER REVIEW; Housman's Hell, Stoppard's Style". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Picasso at the Lapin Agile". 23 October 1995. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Brown, Scott. "Theater Reviews: The Great God Pan and My Name is Asher Lev". Vulture. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  4. ↑ Peter Marks (2011-06-29). "Mark Nelson is lone highlight in contrived 'Merchant of Venice' at Shakespeare". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   1330888409. Archived from the original on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  5. ↑ "Plain Dealer Review of 2005 'I Am My Own Wife," at the Cleveland Play House". 27 February 2009. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Underneath the Lintel". 22 May 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Faculty & Guest Artists". Archived from the original on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
  8. ↑ "Mark Nelson, HB Studio NYC, Acting Teacher, former student of Uta Hagen". Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  9. ↑ "Theater Reviews". The New York Times. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  10. ↑ "Theater Reviews". The New York Times. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  11. ↑ "2009-2013 Alumni - Ten Chimneys Foundation". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
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