Bio

Denis O'Hare is an actor, writer and activist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Mr. O'Hare has performed numerous times on Broadway and Off-Broadway. He won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role in Sweet Charity as well as an OBIE award for An Iliad. Denis has appeared in such films as Milk, for which he won the Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble; A Mighty Heart; Michael Clayton; Duplicity; 21 Grams; Garden State; Half Nelson; Dallas Buyers Club; Lizzie Borden; Allure; and The Changeling. His recent television appearances include "American Horror Story," "True Blood," "The Good Wife," "The Comedians," "This Is Us," and "Broad City."  As a writer, Denis recently had his first screenplay filmed and produced.  His movie The Parting Glass will be released soon and will be in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and will also be screened at the Karlovy Festival in Prague.  With Lisa Peterson, he is the co-author of the play An Iliad which has been performed by many companies throughout the U.S. Lisa and Denis also wrote The Good Book which premiered at The Court Theatre in Chicago in 2015 and will have a production at Berkeley Rep in the spring of 2019.  Currently, Lisa and Denis are working on a new commission from the McCarter Theatre: a piece about the fall of the Roman Empire. In addition, Mr. O’Hare is collaborating on a T.V. series with his husband, Hugo Redwood. He and Mr. Redwood have one son, Declan.