K. Todd Freeman

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|birth_name = Kenneth Todd Freeman

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|7|9}}

|birth_place = Houston, Texas, U.S.

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|education = University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA)

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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 as Mr. Trick on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–1999), and was a series regular as Mr. Poe on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).

Life and career

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/schools-of-the-stars-where-the-2015-tony-nominees-went-to-college-the-actors-and-actresses-347814|title=Schools of the Stars: Where the 2015 Tony Nominees Went to College: The Actors and Actresses - Playbill}}

Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1993.{{Cite web |url=http://www.steppenwolf.org/ensemble/members/details.aspx?id=23 |title=Steppenwolf Theatre profile |access-date=2013-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711102435/http://www.steppenwolf.org/ensemble/members/details.aspx?id=23 |archive-date=2016-07-11 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/k-todd-freeman-departs-visiting-edna|title=K. Todd Freeman Departs Steppenwolf's Visiting Edna {{!}} Playbill|website=Playbill|language=en|access-date=2017-02-07}} 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.{{Cite news|url=http://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/heres-how-airline-highways-k-todd-freeman-created-sissy-na-na/|title=Tony Nominee K. Todd Freeman Reveals the Inspirations Behind Airline Highway's Sissy Na Na|newspaper=BroadwayBox.com|access-date=2017-02-07|language=en}} He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role.{{cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/drama-desk-awards-nominations-include-many-productions-with-chicago-links/|title=Drama Desk Awards nominations include many productions with Chicago links|website=Chicago Suntimes|last=Weiss|first=Hedy|date=April 23, 2015|access-date=April 27, 2018}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/NUNN-ON-ONE-THEATER-K-Todd-Freeman-flies-freely-in-Airline-Highway/50328.html|title=NUNN ON ONE: THEATER K. Todd Freeman flies freely in 'Airline Highway'|website=Windy City Media Group|last=Nunn|first=Jerry|date=January 28, 2015|access-date=April 27, 2018}}

He performed in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 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.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lemony-snickets-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-a-cautionary-tale-for-those-who-believe-in-comforting-lies|title=Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events": A Cautionary Tale for Those Who Believe in Comforting Lies|date=2017-01-27|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2017-02-07}}

Filmography

= Theatre =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! scope="col" width="300px" \| Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1992 \| Angels in America \| Belize \| Los Angeles
1993 \| The Song of Jacob Zulu \| Jacob Zulu \| Broadway
2001 \| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest \| Dr. Spivey \| Broadway
2011 \| The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures \| Paul \| Off-Broadway
2013 \| Fetch Clay, Make Man \| Stepin Fetchit \| Off-Broadway
2014 \| Wicked \| Dr. Dillamond \| Broadway
2015 \| Airline Highway \| Sissy Na Na \| Broadway
2018 \| rowspan="2" \| Downstate \| rowspan="2" \| Dee \| Chicago
2019 \| London
2020 \| rowspan="2" \| The Minutes \| rowspan="2" \| Mr. Blake \| Broadway
2022 \| Broadway
2023 \| Downstate \| Dee \| Off-Broadway
2024 \| Corruption \|Chris Bryant / Simon Kelner \|Off-Broadway

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! scope="col" width="300px" | Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1992

| Angels in America

| Belize

| Los Angeles

1993

| The Song of Jacob Zulu

| Jacob Zulu

| Broadway

2001

| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

| Dr. Spivey

| Broadway

2011

| The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures

| Paul

| Off-Broadway

2013

| Fetch Clay, Make Man

| Stepin Fetchit

| Off-Broadway

2014

| Wicked

| Dr. Dillamond

| Broadway

2015

| Airline Highway

| Sissy Na Na

| Broadway

2018

| rowspan="2" | Downstate

| rowspan="2" | Dee

| Chicago

2019

| London

2020

| rowspan="2" | The Minutes

| rowspan="2" | Mr. Blake

| Broadway

2022

| Broadway

2023

| Downstate

| Dee

| Off-Broadway

2024

| Corruption

|Chris Bryant / Simon Kelner

|Off-Broadway

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1990 \| Street Hunter \| Pretzel \|
rowspan=2 \| 1991 \| Ricochet \| Talk Show Guest \|
Grand Canyon \| 'Wipe' \|
1994 \| Full Cycle \| Clerk \|
1995 \| Jeffrey \| Barney's Waitor \|
rowspan=2 \| 1996 \| Eraser \| FBI Agent Dutton \|
House Arrest \| Officer Davis \|
rowspan=2 \| 1997 \| Grosse Pointe Blank \| NSA Agent Kenneth McCullers \|
The End of Violence \| Six O One \|
1998 \| There's No Fish Food in Heaven \| Stan / Suzie \|
1999 \| The Cider House Rules \| Muddy \|
rowspan=2 \| 2008 \| The Dark Knight \| Polk \|
The Lucky Ones \| Detective # 2 \|
2014 \| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles \| Dr. Baxter Stockman \|
2015 \| Anesthesia \| Joe \|
2017 \| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales \| Captain Morgan \|
2018 \| Weightless \| Dr. Mcleod \|
rowspan=2 \| 2021 \| Naked Singularity \| Jimmy \|
The Same Storm \| Leon Robinson \|
2025 \| Bird In Hand \| Bower \|

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1990

| Street Hunter

| Pretzel

rowspan=2 | 1991

| Ricochet

| Talk Show Guest

Grand Canyon

| 'Wipe'

1994

| Full Cycle

| Clerk

1995

| Jeffrey

| Barney's Waitor

rowspan=2 | 1996

| Eraser

| FBI Agent Dutton

House Arrest

| Officer Davis

rowspan=2 | 1997

| Grosse Pointe Blank

| NSA Agent Kenneth McCullers

The End of Violence

| Six O One

1998

| There's No Fish Food in Heaven

| Stan / Suzie

1999

| The Cider House Rules

| Muddy

rowspan=2 | 2008

| The Dark Knight

| Polk

The Lucky Ones

| Detective # 2

2014

| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

| Dr. Baxter Stockman

2015

| Anesthesia

| Joe

2017

| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

| Captain Morgan

2018

| Weightless

| Dr. Mcleod

rowspan=2 | 2021

| Naked Singularity

| Jimmy

The Same Storm

| Leon Robinson

2025

| Bird In Hand

| Bower

= Television =

Year	Title	Role	class="unsortable" \| Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
rowspan=2\| 1991	A Different World	Novian Winters	Episode: "Monet Is the Root of All Evil"
The Killing Mind	Fred Robinson	TV movie
1992	Brooklyn Bridge	Scoot	Episode: "On the Road"
rowspan=2\| 1993	Tracey Ullman Takes on New York	Byron	TV movie
Ghostwriter	Malenga	Episode: "Lost in Brooklyn: Part 1"
1995	Strange Luck	Driving Instructor	Episode: "Over Exposure"
1995–97	NYPD Blue	Arthur Cartwell	3 episodes
1996	Sisters	Chardonay/Larry	2 episodes
1996–97	Dangerous Minds	Jerome Griffin	17 episodes
1998	Touched by an Angel	Vincent 'Vinegar' Finegar	Episode: "Doodlebugs"
1998–99	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Mr. Trick	5 episodes
2000	City of Angels		Episode: "Cry Me a Liver"
2011	A Gifted Man	Officer Dale Woodrow	Episode: "In Case of Exposure"
rowspan=2\| 2014	Believe	Gary Wise	Episode: "Together"
Elementary	Raphael	Episode: "Terra Pericolosa"
2015	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Mr. Reynolds	Episode: "Community Policing"
rowspan=2\| 2016	Blindspot	Marcus	Episode: "One Begets Technique"
The OA	Masters	Episode: "Homecoming"
2017–19	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Mr. Poe	22 episodes
rowspan=2\| 2019	The Blacklist	Hobbs	Episode: "The Osterman Umbrella Company"
God Friended Me	Bishop Thompson	2 episodes
2020	High Maintenance	Bill	Episode: "Backflash"
2021	FBI: Most Wanted	Linwood Williams	Episode: "Run-Hide-Fight"
rowspan=2\| 2022	The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey	Darwin Andrews	Episode: "Coydog"
The Rehearsal	Fake Kor	Episode: "Orange Juice, No Pulp"
2023	The Horror of Dolores Roach	Jeremiah	8 episodes

Awards and nominations

= Theatre =

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!Year

!Award

!Category

!Work

!Result

1993

|Tony Award{{Cite web|title=The Tony Award Nominations|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/?q=k.%20todd%20freeman|access-date=2021-01-18|website=www.tonyawards.com|language=en-US}}

|Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

|The Song of Jacob Zulu

|{{nom}}

2013

|Obie Award{{Cite web|date=2014-05-21|title=Here are Your 2014 Obie Awards Winners|url=https://www.obieawards.com/2014/05/here-are-your-2014-obie-awards-winners/|access-date=2021-01-18|website=Obie Awards|language=en-US}}

|Performance

|Fetch Clay, Make Man

|{{won}}

rowspan="2" |2015

|Tony Award{{Cite web|title=The Tony Award Nominations|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/?q=k.%20todd%20freeman|access-date=2021-01-18|website=www.tonyawards.com|language=en-US}}

|Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

| rowspan="2" |Airline Highway

|{{nom}}

Drama Desk Award{{Cite web|last=Cox|first=Gordon|date=2015-06-01|title='Hamilton,' 'Curious Incident' Top the 2015 Drama Desk Awards (FULL LIST)|url=https://variety.com/2015/legit/news/2015-drama-desk-awards-winners-full-list-hamilton-1201509094/|access-date=2021-01-18|website=Variety|language=en-US}}

|Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

|{{won}}

2019

|Evening Standard Theatre Award{{Cite web|date=2019-11-04|title=The 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist in full|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-2019-shortlist-in-full-a4277791.html|access-date=2021-01-18|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Paskett|first=Zoe|date=2019-11-25|title=The 2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards winners in full|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-winners-2019-a4294246.html|access-date=2021-01-18|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}

|Best Actor

| rowspan="2" |Downstate

|{{nom}}

2023

|Drama Desk Award

|Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play

|{{nom}}