
BRIAN DENNEHY (Dalton Trumbo) has won two Tony Awards as Best Actor in a Play, in 2003 for Eugene O’Neill's
Long Day's Journey Into Night and in 1999 for the 50th anniversary production of Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman. Mr. Dennehy also received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination as best actor for Showtime's television adaptation of the latter. He also starred on Broadway in Brian Friel's
Translations. At Chicago's Goodman Theatre he appeared in the leading roles in Robert Falls' productions of
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2002),
Death of a Salesman (1998),
A Touch of the Poet (1996),
The Iceman Cometh (1992) and
Galileo (1986). He and Falls collaborated again in 1992 for a remounting of
The Iceman Cometh at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Additional theatre credits include Peter Brook's 1988 production of
The Cherry Orchard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theater; Wisdom Bridge Theatre's production of
Rat in the Skull;
Says I, Says He at The Mark Taper Forum and The Phoenix Theatre in New York. Mr. Dennehy has also starred in numerous television movies and miniseries and was nominated for an Emmy on four other occasions - for his work in “Burden of Proof,” “To Catch a Killer (The John Wayne Gacy Story),” “Murder in the Heartland” and “A Killing in a Small Town.” Mr. Dennehy is perhaps best known for his work in feature films, which include
Semi-Tough, 10, Rambo: First Blood, Gorky Park, Never Cry Wolf, Twice in a Lifetime, Cocoon, Silverado, F/X, Legal Eagles, Best Seller, Presumed Innocent, Tommy Boy, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Peter Greenaway's
The Belly of an Architect, for which he received the Chicago Film Festival Award as Best Actor. He was just seen at Trinity Repertory Company as the title role in
Hughie, and in the Focus Feature film
Assault on Precinct 13.