Gregg Edelman

Gregg Edelman
Born (1958-09-12) September 12, 1958
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation Stage, film, voice, TV actor
Years active 1985-present
Spouse(s) Carolee Carmello (? - present; 2 children)
Children Zoe & Ethan

Gregg Edelman (born September 12, 1958) is an American movie, television and theatre actor.

Edelman was born in Chicago, Illinois, attended Niles North High School, where he starred as Li'l Abner opposite future soap star Nancy Lee Grahn, and was trained at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois). He is married to actress Carolee Carmello, with whom he has a daughter Zoe and son Ethan and resides with his family in Leonia, New Jersey.[1] He made his Broadway debut in the 1979 production of Evita and started attracting serious attention as Cliff in the 1987 Broadway revival of Cabaret.[2]

Stage credits

Selected filmography

Awards and nominations

  • 1990: Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, City of Angels
  • 1993: Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Anna Karenina
  • 1998: Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, 1776
  • 1998: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, 1776
  • 1998: Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, 1776
  • 2002: Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Into the Woods
  • 2002: Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Into the Woods
  • 2004: Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Wonderful Town

Quotes

"I started crying like a teenage girl." - Gregg Edelman on learning of his Into the Woods Tony nomination, to Broadway.com, May 2002.[2]

References

  1. Feldberg, Robert. "My oh my oh, he's come a ways", The Record (Bergen County), November 23, 2003. Accessed March 31, 2011. "When it was announced Gregg Edelman would be in the cast of the Broadway production of Wonderful Town - which opens tonight at the Al Hirschfeld Theater - it hardly registered as a surprise. That's because Edelman, who lives with his family in Leonia, is a hardy perennial on Broadway."
  2. 1 2 "Gregg Edelman, Star File". Broadway.com. 2004-04-18. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
  3. , Broadway.com, July 23, 2008
  4. Gregg Edelman, Mark Jacoby and Johnny Rabe Cast in Secondhand Lions Musical Premiere

External links

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