John Benjamin Hickey Biography

John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart.

Early life

Hickey was born in Plano, Texas, and graduated from Plano Sr. High School in 1981. He attended Texas State University - San Marcos from 1981-1983, where he was active in the theater department. He earned his bachelor's degree in English at Fordham University in 1985.

Career

On Broadway, he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally's play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995, a role he recreated for the 1997 film version.

He played supporting roles in a number of films including The Ice Storm and The Anniversary Party. He has also appeared in Flightplan, Flags of Our Fathers, Freedom Writers, Then She Found Me, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Bet and Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret, which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. In that same year, he played the lead in the independent film Finding North.

On Broadway, he played Reverend John Hale in the 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Hickey played American novelist and playwright Jack Dunphy in the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous. Hickey played Philip Stoddard on the short-lived gay-themed sitcom It's All Relative. Since It's All Relative, Hickey has appeared on Alias, Law & Order, Brothers & Sisters, Stacked, Heartland, In Plain Sight, Law & Order: Los Angeles, and Modern Family.

He appeared in the 2011 Broadway revival of The Normal Heart, for which he won the Tony Award, Featured Actor in a Play. He has also been in a production of Mary Stuart.

From 2010 to 2013, he starred on The Big C and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for the final season of the series, subtitled Hereafter. Hickey starred as scientist Frank Winter on the TV series Manhattan, which concluded on December 15, 2015 after two seasons and 23 episodes.

In 2015 he appeared Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in the play Dada Woof Papa Hot by Peter Parnell.

Personal life

Hickey is openly gay and has been in a relationship with Modern Family writer and producer Jeffrey Richman since 2003.

Filmography

Film

Source: TCM; AllMovie

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Dangerous Music	Tyler	Short film
1992	The Bet	Henry	Short film
1994	Only You	Dwayne
1994	The Ref	Old Baybrook Policeman
1995	Comfortably Numb	Priest
1996	Eddie	Joe Nader
1996	Sin #8		Short film
1997	The Ice Storm	Mark Boland
1997	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Arthur Pape
1998	Finding North	Travis Furlong
1999	The General's Daughter	Captain Goodson
1999	The Bone Collector	Dr. Barry Lehman
2001	The Anniversary Party	Jerry Adams
2002	Changing Lanes	Carlyle
2005	Flightplan	David
2006	The Ex	Wesley's dad
2006	Flags of Our Fathers	Sergeant Keyes Beech
2006	Infamous	Jack Dunphy
2007	Freedom Writers	Brian Gelford
2007	The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising	John Stanton
2007	Then She Found Me	Alan
2009	The Taking of Pelham 123	Deputy Mayor LaSalle
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Theodore Galloway
2010	Civil Unions: A Love Story		Short film
2012	My Eleventh
2012	Pitch Perfect	Dr. Mitchell
2014	Get on Up	Richard
2014	Big Stone Gap	Theodore Tipton
2015	Truth	Mark Wrolstad
2016	Tallulah	Stephen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd	Trent	Episode: "Here's a Quick and Easy Recipe for Leftovers"
1994	NYPD Blue	Paul Gaines	Episode: "Good Time Charlie"
1994	Normandy: The Great Crusade	Louis Simpson	Television film
1997	Nothing Sacred	Dr. Elliott	Episode: "Speaking in Tongues"
1998	Law & Order	Charles Thatcher	Episode: "Castoff"
1998	3rd Rock from the Sun	Rick	Episode: "The Greatest Dickdater"
1998	Sex and the City	Tom	Episode: "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"
1999	Homicide: Life on the Street	Dennis Kohler	Episode: "Zen and Art of Murder"
1999	The Lady in Question	Paul Kessler	Television film
2000	Hamlet	Horatio	Television film
2000	Perfect Murder, Perfect Town		Television film
2000	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Assistant District Attorney	2 episodes
2001	NYPD Blue	Phillip Connor	Episode: "Mom's Away"
2001	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Dr. Sidney Cornfeld	Episode: "Slaves of Las Vegas"
2001	A Glimpse of Hell		Television film
2001	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Rogers Edens	Television film
2002-06	Law & Order	Aaron Solomon	4 episodes
2002	Hack	Dr. Martin Shane	Episode: "Obsession"
2003-04	It's All Relative	Philip Stoddard	22 episodes
2003	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Randall Fuller	Episode: "Con-Text"
2005	Alias	Father Kampinski	Episode: "In Dreams..."
2005	Silver Bells	Lawrence	Television film
2006-07	Undercover History	Narrator	6 episodes
2006	Stacked	Headmaster Keenan	Episode: "The Headmaster"
2006	Brothers & Sisters	Major Guinness	Episode: "Light the Lights"
2006	A House Divided	President Russell	Television film
2007	Heartland	Bill	Episode: "Pilot"
2007	The Hunt for the Boston Strangler	Narrator	Television film
2007	Secrets of the Moon Landings	Narrator	Television film
2008	In Plain Sight	Donald Fraser/Donald Ferguson	Episode: "Don of the Dead"
2008	Living Proof	Blake Rogers	Television film
2008	The Real George Washington	Narrator	Television film
2009	Lincoln: American Mastermind	Narrator	Television film
2009	Timewatch	Narrator	Episode: "The Real Bonnie and Clyde"
2010-13	The Big C	Sean Tolkey	40 episodes
2010	Law & Order: LA	Congressman Thomas Nelson	Episode: "Pasadena"
2011-16	The Good Wife	Neil Gross	8 episodes
2011	A Gifted Man	Ben Tucker	Episode: "In Case of Exposure"
2012-13	The Mob Doctor	Mark Easton	3 episodes
2012-13	The New Normal	Father Michael	3 episodes
2013	Hannibal	Dr. Sutcliffe	Episode: "Buffet Froid"
2014	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Tom Moore	Episode: "Wednesday's Child"
2014	Modern Family	Dr. Clark	Episode: "Under Pressure"
2014-15	Manhattan	Frank Winter	22 episodes
2015	Difficult People	Fred	Episode: "Pledge Week"

Theatre

Source: IBDB

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Arthur Pape	Broadway
1998-2004	Cabaret	Clifford Bradshaw	Broadway
2002	The Crucible	Reverend John Hale	Broadway
2009	Mary Stuart	Earl of Leicester	Broadway
2011	The Normal Heart	Felix Turner	Broadway
2015	Dada Woof Papa Hot	Alan	Off-Broadway

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2011	Tony Awards	Best Featured Actor in a Play	The Normal Heart
2013	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	The Big C: Hereafter