Frank Wood (actor)

Frank Wood
Born May 1960 (age 56)
Occupation Actor
Years active 1998–present

Frank Wood (born March 1960) is an American actor who has appeared in various television, film, and theatre roles.[1] His most frequent role was performing as Greg in the HBO series Flight Of The Conchords.

Early life

Wood is the son of Margaret (Byers) and Robert Coldwell Wood, a political scientist who briefly served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Lyndon Johnson administration.[2] His sister is the Governor of New Hampshire and U.S. Senator-elect Maggie Hassan. Wood prepped at the Buxton School (Massachusetts), graduated Wesleyan in 1984 and subsequently earned an MFA from New York University's Graduate Acting Program.[3][4]

Career

Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Side Man. He played Bill in August: Osage County on Broadway.[5] From September 14, 2010 to March 27, 2011, Wood starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America staged by the Signature Theatre Company in Manhattan.[6][7][8][9] Wood played Gary Lucas in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.[10][11]

In 2016, Wood played the Night Clerk in Eugene O'Neill's play Hughie opposite Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in New York City, directed by Michael Grandage.[12]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

References

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