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Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor who has starred in feature films, Broadway shows, and television series and movies.

Life

Kerwin was born in Chicago and raised in Flossmoor, Illinois. He has three siblings, Anne, Dennis, and Terrence.

Kerwin married Jeanne Marie Troy on September 2, 1990, and they had three children, Finn, Matilda, and Brennan. She died at the family home in Venice, California, on February 11, 2016, at age 55 after a three-year battle with brain cancer.

Career

After graduating from USC Film School in 1972, Kerwin moved to New York to work in theater. won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. The same year, he starred in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum.

In 1989, he played Nick in a revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Doolittle Theatre (now the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre) in Los Angeles. The production, directed by the playwright, starred Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow, with Cynthia Nixon as Kerwin's character's wife, Honey. The production was not well received. He played opposite Kathy Baker in the South Coast Repertory production of The Man from Nebraska in 2006. His most recent stage appearance was in the original Broadway production of August: Osage County.

Kerwin's feature films include Murphy's Romance, Hard Promises, 27 Dresses (as Katherine Heigl's character's father), Torch Song Trilogy, Love Field, Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, Jack, King Kong Lives, The Myth of Fingerprints, and Debating Robert Lee. Kerwin has enjoyed an extensive career in television, beginning with the daytime serial The Young and the Restless in 1976.

His credits on TV include a regular role on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, recurring roles on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Chisholms (four episodes), Roseanne (as Gary Hall), The West Wing, Nip/Tuck and Big Love and guest appearances in The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Frasier, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, Boston Legal, Medium, Without a Trace, and Desperate Housewives. From 2007 to 2012, he appeared on the soap opera One Life to Live.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

1. Willis, John (March 2000). Screen World 1996. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 278. ISBN 9781557832528 – via Google Books.
2. "Jeanne Marie Kerwin". Legacy.com. Los Angeles Times. February 11, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
3. Sullivan, Dan "Stage Review: A Lower-Key George and Martha", Los Angeles Times, October 6, 1989.
4. Bottoms, Stephen J. Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 66–68.
5. The Hollywood Reporter (2008). The Hollywood Reporter: Volumes 404-405. p. 10 – via Google Books.

External links

• Brian Kerwin at IMDb
• Brian Kerwin at the Internet Broadway Database
• Brian Kerwin at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

• 1949 births
• 20th-century American male actors
• Living people
• American male film actors
• American male stage actors
• American male television actors
• Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute alumni
• Male actors from Chicago
• People from Flossmoor, Illinois