Kenneth Todd Freeman born July 9 1965 is an American actor He has been nominated for two Tony Awards over the course of his career and has won one Drama Desk Award He has played supporting roles in films such as Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 and The Cider House Rules 1999 played a prominent recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer 19981999 and was a series regular on A Series of Unfortunate Events 20172019 Born in Houston Texas Freeman went to the local High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before later graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1987 Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago Illinois since 1993 In the same year he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his lead performance in the Apartheid drama The Song of Jacob Zulu More recently Freeman has played the role of Doctor Dillamond from Wicked in the first North American tour Chicago and Broadway productions In 2015 he was nominated for his second Tony Award this time for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Sissy Na Na in Airline Highway He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role He has also had supporting roles in various films such as Eraser 1996 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 The Cider House Rules 1999 and The Dark Knight 2008 On television he earned a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr Trick He performed in the Steppenwolf Theatre Companys production of Downstate which concluded its run on November 18 2018 He portrayed Mr Poe in the 2017 Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events
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