Frank Wood (actor)
Frank Wood is an American actor who has appeared in various television, film, and theatre roles.Early life
Wood is the son of Margaret 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, graduated from Wesleyan in 1984 and subsequently earned an MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program.Career
Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Side Man. He played Bill in 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.
Wood is currently on the faculty of HB Studio in New York City.Filmography
Film
- Down to You – Doctor
- Small Time Crooks – Oliver
- Pollock – Frank Pollock
- Thirteen Days – McGeorge Bundy
- The Royal Tenenbaums – Hotel Manager
- In America – Pediatrician
- People I Know – Michael Wormly
- Winter Solstice – Bill Brennan
- King of the Corner – Anthony Berenson
- Keane – Assaulted Commuter
- The Undeserved – Alex Montgomery
- Flakes – Bruce
- Michael Clayton – Gerald
- The Favor – Lawrence
- Dan in Real Life – Howard
- Lucky Days – Dr. Ginger
- Changeling – Ben Harris
- Synecdoche, New York – Evaluative Services Doctor
- The Missing Person – Harold Fullmer
- The Taking of Pellham 123 – Police Commissioner Sterman
- Greetings from Tim Buckley – Gary Lucas
- St. Vincent – Maggie's Attorney
- The Phenom – Richard Boyer
- Custody – Uncle Frank
- Gold – Scottie Nevins
- Detroit – Judge Demascio
- Isle of Dogs – Simul-Translate Machine
- Joker - Dr. Benjamin Stoner
Television
- Law & Order – Dr. Rutland
- Ed
- The Sopranos – Dean Ross
- Third Watch – Fire Chief
- ' – George Weems
- Medium – Crazed Man
- Line of Fire
- Flight of the Conchords – Greg
- Damages
- Bored to Death – Dr. O'Connor
- Lights Out – Dr. Stuart Wexler
- Modern Family – Reporter
- Grey's Anatomy – Frank Wheeler
- The Good Wife – Dr. Joseph Lidera
- ' – Andrew Lennox
- Elementary – EROC Supervisor
- The Newsroom – Shep Pressman
- Blue Bloods – Father Markhum
- The Divide – Griffen Donleavey
- The Knick – Mr. Havershorn
- Younger – Dr. Kigner
- Girls – Charlie's Client
- The Night Of – Medical Examiner
- The Get Down – Ed Koch
- Mozart in the Jungle – Keith
Theater
- Side Man
- Hollywood Arms
- Spring Awakening
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- Clybourne Park
- Angels in America
- Born Yesterday
- Hughie
- The Iceman Cometh
