Artist Bio

(Bio as of August 2024)

Robert Sean Leonard is perhaps best known for playing Dr. James Wilson alongside Hugh Laurie on the iconic FOX medical drama House, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In addition, he has had recurring roles on the TNT series Falling Skies and the NBC series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Born in New Jersey, Robert began acting at age 14 at The Public Theater in New York. At 19, he made his film debut in the acclaimed Dead Poets Society. Other film credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Age Of Innocence, The I Inside, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Swing Kids, Tape, Chelsea Walls and Whit Stillman’s The Last Days Of Disco. Robert worked on the Ridley Scott-produced mini-series The Hot Zone for National Geographic Television, based on Richard Preston’s bestselling book about the Ebola virus. He appeared in At Home At The Zoo at the Signature Theatre and Richard II at the Old Globe Theatre. Prior to that, he appeared on Broadway as Jules in Sondheim’s acclaimed revival of Sunday In The Park With George and also starred as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London. He has performed in Broadway productions of The Invention Of Love (Tony Award), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Tony nomination), Born Yesterday, The Violet Hour, The Music Man, The Iceman Cometh, Arcadia, Candida (Tony nomination), Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Speed Of Darkness, Breaking The Code and Brighton Beach Memoirs. He also appeared in the West End production of Our Town. He can most recently be seen as President Harry Truman in the Showtime limited series The First Lady. He has recently wrapped 10 episodes on HBO’s The Gilded Age season 2.