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John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963, Plano, Texas) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart. He is openly gay; since 2003 his longtime partner is Modern Family writer, producer and actor Jeffrey Richman.

On Broadway, he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995, a role he would recreate for the 1997 film version. He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, and played Reverend John Hale in the Tony-nominated 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. He recently played Sean, the homeless brother of Cathy (played by actress Laura Linney), the main character on the Showtime series The Big C.

Hickey graduated from Plano Sr. High School, Plano Texas 1981 and attended Texas State University - San Marcos from 1981–1983, where he was active in the theater department. He earned his bachelor's degree in English at Fordham University in 1985.

On film, in addition to his role in Love! Valour! Compassion! Hickey played the lead in the 1998 independent film Finding North and played American novelist and playwright Jack Dunphy in the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous, along with supporting roles in a number of other films, including The Ice Storm and The Anniversary Party. Hickey's best-known television role is perhaps that of Philip Stoddard on the short-lived gay-themed ABC sitcom It's All Relative.

Since It's All Relative, Hickey has appeared on Alias, Law & Order, Brothers & Sisters, Stacked, Heartland, In Plain Sight, and most recently Law & Order: Los Angeles. He appeared in Flightplan, Flags of Our Fathers, Freedom Writers, Then She Found Me, the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Bet and Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara and the cast of Nice Work If You Can Get It celebrate opening night on April 24, 2012. Photographer: Bruce Glikas, © Broadway.com
John Benjamin Hickey is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart. He is openly gay; since 2003 his longtime partner is Modern Family writer, producer and actor Jeffrey Richman. (P (clockwise from l.): Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Victor Garber, John Benjamin Hickey & Jeffrey Richman, Sarah Jessica Parker & her son James Wilkie)

In addition to Cabaret, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and The Crucible, he was cast in the 2011 revival of The Normal Heart, for which he earned a Tony Award. He has also been in a production of Mary Stuart.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benjamin_Hickey

Further Readings:

The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
Paperback: 102 pages
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. (1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 057361993X
ISBN-13: 978-0573619939
Amazon: The Normal Heart

Full Length, Drama

Characters: 8 male, 1 female

Unit set.

A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.

"An angry, unremitting and gripping piece of political theatre."-New York Daily News

"Like the best social playwrights, Kramer produces a cross fire of life and death energies that illuminate the many issues and create a fierce and moving human drama."-Newsweek

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