Brian Kerwin
Known for Acting · 80 credits
- Born
- 1949-10-25 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Brain Kerwin · Брайан Кервин
Biography
Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. That same year he starred in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum and played Nick in a highly praised revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow. He also played opposite Kathy Baker in the South Coast Repertory production of The Man from Nebraska in 2006. His most recent stage appearance was in the Broadway production August: Osage County.
Kerwin's feature films include Murphy's Romance, Hard Promises, 27 Dresses (as Katherine Heigl's character's father), Torch Song Trilogy, Love Field, Jack, King Kong Lives, The Myth of Fingerprints, and Debating Robert Lee. Kerwin has enjoyed an extensive career in television, beginning with the daytime serial The Young and the Restless in 1976. In addition to many television movies, his credits include a regular role on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, recurring roles on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Chisholms (four 1979 episodes as Gideon Chisholm), Roseanne, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck and Big Love and guest appearances in The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Frasier, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Medium, Without a Trace, and Desperate Housewives. In 2007, he joined the cast of the soap opera One Life to Live. Brian was also in a television movie with Michelle Pfeiffer called Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson. He played her married lover. His name was spelled Brain Kerwin in the credits.
Kerwin has been married to Jeanne Marie Troy since September 2, 1990. They have three children, Finn, Matilda, and Brennan. The family lives in New York City.
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Known For
TV Shows (38)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Evan Ramsey / Stanley Billings / Roger Murray
Law & Order
1990
as Ted Weldon
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Holden McKee
Desperate Housewives
2004
as Harvey Bigsby
Monk
2002
as Ben Glazer
Frasier
1993
as Bob
Elementary
2012
as Charles Cooper
The West Wing
1999
as Ben Dryer
Without a Trace
2002
as Randall Parker
Medium
2005
as Nathan Bradley
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Andy Townsend
The Love Boat
1977
as Ted Lawrence / Hank Austin
Boston Legal
2004
as Jack Fleming
Great Performances
1971
as Hal Graham
Strong Medicine
2000
as Leslie Campbell
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Eugene Alderman
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Terence O'Casey
Simon & Simon
1981
Highway to Heaven
1984
Big Love
2006
as Eddie
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Donald
Close to Home
2005
as Lee Towers
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Doctor Winters
The Client List
2012
as Garrett Landry
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
The Knick
2014
as Corky
B. J. and the Bear
1979
Roseanne
1988
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
1979
as Deputy Birdwell "Birdie" Hawkins
Logan's Run
1977
as Patrick
Beggars and Choosers
1999
as Rob Malone
One Life to Live
1968
as Charlie Banks
The Blue and the Gray
1982
as Malachy Hale
The Chisholms
1979
as Gideon Chisholm
Angel Falls
1993
as Eli Harrison
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Switched at Birth
1991
as Robert Mays
Bluegrass
1988
as Dancy Cutler
Movies (42)
The Help
2011
as Robert Phelan
27 Dresses
2008
as Hal Nichols
Jack
1996
as Brian Powell
King Kong Lives
1986
as Hank Mitchell
Love Field
1992
as Ray Hallett
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1995
as Matt Hollinger
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Elliot
Murphy's Romance
1985
as Bobby Jack Moriarty
Common Ground
2000
as Chuck Dawson
Hard Promises
1992
as Walt
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
2004
as Nathan Lloyd
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1987
as Hal Graham
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
as Ed Reese
Abandoned and Deceived
1995
as Doug
The Exonerated
2006
as Cop #2
Nickel Mountain
1984
as George
Challenger
1990
as Captain Michael J. Smith
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
1997
as Buck Adams
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Getting Away with Murder
1996
as Marty Lambert
You Must Be Joking
2014
as Sandy
Getting Wasted
1980
as Brad
Critical Choices
1996
as Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
Flash
1997
as David Strong
Mr. Jealousy
1998
as Stephen
Spies, Inc.
1992
as Jim
Dear Diary
1996
as Tom
The Paradise Connection
1979
as Bruce Douglas
Unlikely Angel
1996
as Ben Bartilson
Debating Robert Lee
2004
as Gary Mann
Wet Gold
1984
as Ben Keating, the Diver
Intimate Agony
1983
as Nick Todd
It Came from Outer Space II
1995
as Jack Putnam
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
2015
as Irv Bornstein
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992
as Jack Adkins
Hometown U.S.A.
1979
as T. J. Swackhammer
Miss All-American Beauty
1982
as Michael Carrington
The Tragedy of King Lear
1982
King Kong! The Living Legend
1986
as Self
Sins of Silence
1996
as Joey Finn
A Real American Hero
1978
as Til Johnson
Giving Up the Ghost
1998
as Kevin
About Brian Kerwin
Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. That same year he starred in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum and played Nick in a highly praised revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow. He also played opposite Kath… With 80 credits spanning from 1968 to 2015, Brian Kerwin has appeared in 42 films and 38 TV shows.
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- Jack (1996) — as Brian Powell
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