Frederick Weller
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- Made his professional stage debut as an understudy in the original New York production of Six Degrees of Separation.
- Made his silver screen debut playing the lead role of Matty Dean in Stonewall (1996), a film about the start of the gay rights movement.
- Played Brian Wilson in the ABC miniseries The Beach Boys: An American Family in 2000.
- Was directed by Neil LaBute in London and New York stage productions of The Shape of Things and also in the 2003 film version of the play.
- In 2005, he portrayed a talking lizard in the Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Edward Albee's Seascape.
- His first major TV role had him playing a cop in the police drama Missing Persons (1993-94). More than a decade later, his second major TV gig cast him in another crime-solving role as a U.S. Marshall in the USA Network series In Plain Sight.
- Wrote, directed and starred in Streetcar, a short film about an aspiring television actor that made the rounds at various film festivals in 2010.