Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin

Born 1949-10-25 (age 76) Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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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The Help
The Help

2011

as Robert Phelan

27 Dresses
27 Dresses

2008

as Hal Nichols

Jack
Jack

1996

as Brian Powell

King Kong Lives
King Kong Lives

1986

as Hank Mitchell

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy

1988

as Ed Reese

Love Field
Love Field

1992

as Ray Hallett

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Intimate Agony
Intimate Agony

1983

as Nick Todd

Murphy's Romance
Murphy's Romance

1985

as Bobby Jack Moriarty

Hard Promises
Hard Promises

1992

as Walt

Getting Wasted
Getting Wasted

1980

as Brad

Challenger
Challenger

1990

as Captain Michael J. Smith

Common Ground
Common Ground

2000

as Chuck Dawson

The Myth of Fingerprints
The Exonerated
The Exonerated

2006

as Cop #2

Wet Gold
Wet Gold

1984

as Ben Keating, the Diver

Flash
Flash

1997

as David Strong

Critical Choices
Critical Choices

1996

as Rev. Bobby Ray Flood