Frank Wood (born May 6, 1960) is an American actor who has appeared in various television, film, and theatre roles.
Early life and education Wood is the son of Margaret (Byers) and Robert Coldwell Wood, a political scientist who briefly served as United States secretary of housing and urban development in the Lyndon Johnson administration. His sister is U.S. senator and former governor of New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan. Wood attended the Buxton School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1984 and a MFA from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Career Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Side Man. He played Bill in August: Osage County on Broadway. From September 14, 2010, to March 27, 2011, Wood starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America staged by the Signature Theatre Company in Manhattan. Wood played Gary Lucas in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2016, Wood played the Night Clerk in Eugene O'Neill's play Hughie opposite Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in New York City, directed by Michael Grandage."Gambling on O'Neill: Forest Whitaker Makes His Broadway Debut in Hughie" by Michael Paulson, The New York Times, February 3, 2016
Wood is on the faculty of HB Studio in New York City.HB Studio Faculty page
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes2000Down to YouDoctor2000Small Time CrooksOliver2000PollockFrank Pollock2000Thirteen DaysMcGeorge Bundy2001The Royal TenenbaumsHotel Manager2002In AmericaPaediatrician2002People I KnowMichael Wormly2004Winter SolsticeBill Brennan2004King of the CornerAnthony Berenson2004KeaneAssaulted Commuter2004The UndeservedAlex Montgomery2007FlakesBruce2007The FavorLawrence2007Michael ClaytonGerald2007Dan in Real LifeHoward2008Lucky DaysDr. Ginger2008ChangelingBen Harris2008Synecdoche, New YorkEvaluative Services Doctor2009The Missing PersonHarold Fullmer2009The Taking of Pelham 123Police Commissioner Sterman2012Greetings from Tim BuckleyGary Lucas2014St. VincentMaggie's Attorney2016The PhenomRichard Boyer2016CustodyUncle Frank2016GoldScottie Nevins2017DetroitRobert Edward DeMascio2018Isle of DogsSimul-Translate MachineVoice2019JokerDr. Benjamin Stoner2020LapsisJohn2022She SaidMatt Purdy
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1998Law & OrderDr. RutlandEpisode: "Scrambled"2001The SopranosDean RossEpisode: "Second Opinion"2001Third WatchThird WatchEpisode: "Honor"2002Law & Order: Criminal IntentGeorge WeemsEpisode: "Chinoiserie"2004MediumCrazed ManEpisode: "Pilot"2007–2009Flight of the ConchordsGreg17 episodes2010Bored to DeathDr. O'ConnorEpisode: "Escape from the Castle!"2011Lights OutDr. Stuart WexlerEpisode: "The Comeback"2012Modern FamilyReporterEpisode: "Election Day"2012Grey's AnatomyFrank WheelerEpisode: "The Girl With No Name"2012The Good WifeDr. Joseph LideraEpisode: "And the Law Won"2012–2021Law & Order: Special Victims UnitDr. Truman / Andrew Lennox4 episodes2013ElementaryEROC SupervisorEpisode: "Snow Angels"2013The NewsroomShep Pressman2 episodes2013Blue BloodsFather MarkhumEpisode: "Lost and Found"2014The DivideGriffen DonleaveyEpisode: "I'm for Justice"2014–2015The KnickMr. Havershorn10 episodes2016YoungerDr. KignerEpisode: "Un-Jaded"2016GirlsCharlie's ClientEpisode: "The Panic in Central Park"2016The Night OfMedical Examiner4 episodes2016–2017The Get DownEd Koch6 episodes2018Mozart in the JungleKeith Rutledge2 episodes2019The BlacklistGerald KlepperEpisode: "The Ethicist (No. 91)"2019Prodigal SonDr. Carl MitchellEpisode: "Fear Response"2021BullDr. Edwin PruittEpisode: "Cloak and Beaker"2021EvilBrother JacobEpisode: "S Is for Silence"2023The Crowded RoomDean Martin Hughs2 episodes
Stage + Year Title Role Notes 1990 The Last Good Day of Lily Baker Bob Baker People's Light and Theatre Company 1998 Side Man Gene Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway 2000 Light Up the Sky Owen Turner Williamstown Theatre Festival 2001 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz Long Wharf Theatre 2001 The Wax Christopher Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway 2002 Hollywood Arms Jody Cort Theatre, Broadway 2005 Hamlet Player King McCarter Theatre 2005 Three Sisters Vershinin American Repertory Theater 2005 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Azdak South Coast Repertory 2006 The Rainmaker File Arena Stage 2006 Spring Awakening Adult Men Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway 2007 Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell Family Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway 2008 August: Osage County Bill Fordham (Replacement) Imperial Theatre, Broadway 2009 Three Sisters Baron Tuzenbach Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 2011 Angels in America Roy Cohn Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway 2011 Born Yesterday Ed Devery Cort Theatre, Broadway 2011 King Lear Duke of Cornwall The Public Theater, Off-Broadway 2012 Clybourne Park Russ/Dan Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway 2013 A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney Roy Disney Soho Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway 2014 Marjorie Prime Jon Mark Taper Forum 2015 The Nether Sims Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off-Broadway 2016 Signature Plays Daddy Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway 2016 Hughie Night Clerk Booth Theatre, Broadway 2016 The Babylon Line Jack Hassenpflug Lincoln Center Theater Off-Broadway 2017 Can You Forgive Her? David Vineyard Theatre, Off-Broadway 2017 In The Blood Doctor Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway 2017 Tartuffe Orgon Huntington Theatre Company 2018 The Iceman Cometh Cecil Lewis Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway 2018 Network Nelson Chaney Belasco Theatre, Broadway 2019 A Human Being, Of A Sort William Temple Hornaday Williamstown Theatre Festival 2019 The Great Society Sen. Everett Dirksen/Deke DeLoach/Colonel Al Lingo/Clark Clifford Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 2020 The Perplexed Joseph Manhattan Theatre Club, Off-Broadway 2023 The Best We Could Lou New York City Center, Off-Broadway 2023 Toros Tica Second Stage Theater, Off-Broadway 2024 The Meeting: The Interpreter The Interpreter Theatre at St. Clements, Off-Broadway 2024 Hold On to Me Darling Mitch Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off-Broadway 2026 Indian Princesses Greg Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway
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