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Quick Facts

Born:
1965-07-09

Birthplace:
Houston, Texas, USA

Credits:
37 Total Roles

K. Todd Freeman

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Biography

Kenneth Todd Freeman (born July 9, 1965) is an American actor. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards over the course of his career and has won one Drama Desk Award. He has played supporting roles in films such as Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and The Cider House Rules (1999), played a prominent recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–1999), and was a series regular on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).

Born in Houston, Texas, Freeman went to the local High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before later graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1987.

Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1993. In the same year, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his lead performance in the Apartheid drama The Song of Jacob Zulu. More recently, Freeman has played the role of Doctor Dillamond from Wicked in the first North American tour, Chicago and Broadway productions. In 2015, he was nominated for his second Tony Award, this time for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Sissy Na Na in Airline Highway. He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role.

He has also had supporting roles in various films such as Eraser (1996), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Cider House Rules (1999), and The Dark Knight (2008). On television, he earned a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr. Trick.

He performed in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Downstate, which concluded its run on November 18, 2018.

He portrayed Mr. Poe in the 2017 Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2027 The Auction MOVIE Karl Hartman
2025 Bird in Hand MOVIE Bower
2023 The Horror of Dolores Roach TV Jeremiah
2022 The Same Storm MOVIE Leon Robinson
2022 The Rehearsal TV Fake Kor
2021 Naked Singularity MOVIE Jimmy Coates
2020 FBI: Most Wanted TV Linwood Williams
2018 God Friended Me TV Bishop Thompson
2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales MOVIE Captain Morgan
2017 A Series of Unfortunate Events TV Arthur Poe

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