Malcolm Gets
Malcolm Gets (born December 28, 1963) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Richard in the American television sitcom Caroline in the City. Gets is also a dancer, singer, composer, classically trained pianist, vocal director, and choreographer.
Malcolm Gets
- Name
- Malcolm Gets
- Born
- 28 December 1963
- Birthplace
- Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Education
- University of Florida (BFA) Yale University (MFA)
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Malcolm Gets (born December 28, 1963) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Richard in the American television sitcom Caroline in the City. Gets is also a dancer, singer, composer, classically trained pianist, vocal director, and choreographer.
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Malcolm Gets (born 1963) is an actor, of American nationality. The actor was born in Waukegan. Malcolm Gets was educated at Buchholz High School, University of Florida and Yale School of Drama. Languages used include English.
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Biography
Biography
His first solo album came out in 2009 from PS Classics. Gets was nominated for a Tony Award in 2003 (Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Musical for Amour) and was awarded the Obie Award in 1995.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Malcolm Gets • Born — 28 December 1963 • Birthplace — Waukegan, Illinois, U.S. • Occupation — Actor • Education — University of Florida (BFA) Yale University (MFA) • Years Active — 1983–present
Life and career
Life and career
Gets was born in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of Lispbeth, an educator, and Terence Gets, a college textbook salesman. Both parents grew up in London, England. He moved with his family to New Jersey. He lived there until he was six, when his family moved to Gainesville, Florida. He has an older brother Erik, an older sister Alison and a younger sister Adrienne. Gets started studying performing arts early in life. He began studying piano at age nine. This skill helped him pay his way through college. He began singing lessons at 14. He also danced with a studio in Gainesville as a teenager. Gets skipped two years of K-12 education and graduated from Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida, aged 16. He then attended the University of Florida, where he won Best Newcomer's Award in acting and at age 24 earned a BFA in Theatre (1988). Following that, he completed an MFA at the Yale Drama School. Gets came out as gay in the late 1990s and lives with his partner.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1993 — Law & Order — Lance Keys • 1995–1999 — Caroline in the City — Richard Karinsky • 1997 — Sparkle Lounge — Host — On VH-1 • Remember WENN — Carter Dunlap • 2012 — The Good Wife — Dale Lamborn • Blue Bloods — Prof. Brian Devlin • 2019 — Tales of the City — Dinner party guest
Theater
Theater
• Year — Production — Role — Location — Category • 1995 — The Molière Comedies — Valère — Criterion Center Stage Right — Broadway • 2002 — Amour — Dusoleil — Music Box Theatre — Broadway • 2009 — The Story of My Life — Alvin Kelby — Booth Theatre — Broadway • 2013-2014 — Macbeth — Witch, Angus — Vivian Beaumont Theatre — Broadway Gets was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical in 2003 for his work in Amour. Selected work • Amadeus (1983) • Cloud Nine (1984) • Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour (1986) • As Is (1987)
Special Events
Special Events
• Dreamgirls as Film Executive (2001) • Passion as Colonel Ricci (2004)
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
• Juno as Johnny Boyle (1992 at Vineyard Theatre) • Hello Again as The Writer (1994 at Lincoln Center) • Merrily We Roll Along as Franklin Shepard (1994 at the York Theatre) • The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Proteus (1994 at Delacorte Theatre) • A New Brain as Gordon Michael Schwinn (1998 at Lincoln Center) • Boys and Girls as Jake (2002 at The Duke, 42nd Street) • Polish Joke as Jasiu Sadlowski (2003 at Manhattan Theatre Club) • Finian's Rainbow as Og (2004 at Irish Repertory Theatre) • Vigil by [Morris Panych] as Kemp (2009 at the DR2 Theatre) • Banished Children of Eve as Stephen Collins Foster (2010 at the Irish Repertory Theatre) • Allegro as Joseph Taylor Sr. (2014 at Classic Stage Company) • Steve as Stephen (2015 at Pershing Square Signature Center) Gets was awarded the Obie Award for his work in Merrily We Roll Along and The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1995.
Other appearances
Other appearances
• The Colorado Catechism by Vincent J. Cardinal as TY (1990 premiere at Yale School of Drama) • The Boys from Syracuse Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. New Book by Nicky Silver. Based on the Original Book by George Abbott. as Antipholus of Ephesus (1997 at City Center) • Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (2000 at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California) • Finian's Rainbow with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by EY Harburg as Og • 1997 at Freud Playhouse on the campus of UCLA • 2004 Irish Repertory Theatre • 2005 at Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut • Camelot at the Hollywood Bowl as Mordred (2005) • Party Come Here at Williamstown Theatre Festival as Orlando (2007) • "Lisbon Traviata" at The Kennedy Center (2010)
Music
Music
• Soundtracks • "Tradition/To Life" (1999) - in celebrity concert to benefit A.I.D.S. research, recorded as The S.T.A.G.E. Series: Adler, Bock, Coleman. • Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim (2001) - singles and duets recorded with Barbara Cook, such as "Into the Woods" and "Not While I'm Around". • Grey Gardens (2009) - two duets recorded with Jessica Lange; "I Won't Dance" and "We Belong Together".
Identity and overview
Identity and overview
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Works and production
Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that malcolm Gets is recorded with the occupation television actor. Recorded with the occupation film actor. The record continues: malcolm Gets is recorded with the occupation actor. Recorded with the occupation stage actor. Recorded as a citizen of United States. Institutional cataloguing adds that malcolm Gets is recorded with the gender male. The register further records that malcolm Gets was born on 28 December 1963.
Film
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1984 — A Flash of Green — Jigger Loesser • 1994 — Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle — F. Scott Fitzgerald • 2001 — Thirteen Conversations About One Thing — The Architect • 2002 — Love in the Time of Money — Robert Walker • 2005 — Adam & Steve — Steve • Little Boy Blues — Michael • 2008 — Sex and the City — Building Agent • 2009 — Grey Gardens — George "Gould" Strong
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- VIAF cluster 38987085 for Malcolm Gets, aggregating national library name authorities.
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reference work
- “Malcolm Gets”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1887003: Malcolm Gets
General reference · Wikidata
Awards and nominations
• Year — Award ceremony — Category — Show — Result • 1995 — Obie Award — Performance — The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Merrily We Roll Along • 1995 — Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actor in a Musical — Merrily We Roll Along • 2003 — Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actor in a Musical — Amour • 2003 — Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical — Amour
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.The 2003 Tony Award Nominations. Los Angeles Times. May 13, 2003.
- 2.Voice Media. New York Obies Theater Awards: 1995 Winners. The Village Voice.
- 3.Malcolm Gets Biography (1964-)
- 4.Portantiere, Michael (February 18, 2009). "Blogging Broadway: Malcolm Gets lives the 'Life'". AfterElton.com. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
- 5.Stockwell, Anne. Over the moon in Miami. The Advocate. 4 May 2005.
- 6.Gans, Andrew and Hetrick, Adam. }Gets Will Join Stenborg in Off-Broadway's 'Vigil'" Playbill, August 10, 2009
- 7.Stasio, Marilyn. Review Vigil Variety, September 2009
- 8.Voss, Brandon. Seat Filler: NYC Theater Guide for November 2010. The Advocate. 16 November 2010.
- 9.Giuliano, Charles. Party Come Here at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Berkshire Fine Arts. 28 July 2007.
- 10.PHOTO CALL: McNally's Lisbon Traviata at the Kennedy Center. 24 March 2010.
- 11.The S.T.A.G.E. Series: Adler, Bock, Coleman
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