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• Took drama and elocution lessons as a child.
• Got his start in show business as a 10-year-old soprano on an Irish radio show.
• His father opened one of the first delicatessens in Dublin.
• Early in his career he was afraid that he would be typecast in Irish parts and for a long time refused to take them.
• Starred on Broadway as Finian in a 2009 revival of Finian's Rainbow.
• Has done the readings for audio books of James Joyce's Ulysses, The Dubliners, Finnegan's Wake and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
• Has been in several productions of playwright Conor McPherson works, including The Weir, a role the author specifically wrote for Norton, and The Seafarer, for which he won a Tony in 2008 for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.
• Sister started the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School in Dublin.