Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 25, 1949
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Credits
80 titles
Brian Kerwin
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Kerwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Irv Bornstein
The Knick
Corky
You Must Be Joking
Sandy
Elementary
Charles Cooper
The Client List
Garrett Landry
The Help
Robert Phelan
27 Dresses
Hal Nichols
Big Love
Eddie
The Exonerated
Cop #2
Close to Home
Lee Towers
Grey's Anatomy
Holden McKee
Medium
Nathan Bradley
Desperate Housewives
Harvey Bigsby
Boston Legal
Jack Fleming
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Nathan Lloyd
Debating Robert Lee
Gary Mann
Nip/Tuck
Eugene Alderman
Without a Trace
Randall Parker
Monk
Ben Glazer
Strong Medicine
Leslie Campbell
Common Ground
Chuck Dawson
The West Wing
Ben Dryer
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Evan Ramsey
Beggars and Choosers
Rob Malone
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Giving Up the Ghost
Kevin
Mr. Jealousy
Stephen
Flash
David Strong
The Myth of Fingerprints
Elliot
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
Buck Adams
Unlikely Angel
Ben Bartilson
Dear Diary
Tom
Critical Choices
Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
Jack
Brian Powell
Getting Away with Murder
Marty Lambert
Sins of Silence
Joey Finn
It Came from Outer Space II
Jack Putnam
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Matt Hollinger
Abandoned and Deceived
Doug
Frasier
Bob
Angel Falls
Eli Harrison
Love Field
Ray Hallett
Spies, Inc.
Jim
Hard Promises
Walt
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Jack Adkins
Switched at Birth
Robert Mays
Law & Order
Ted Weldon
Challenger
Captain Michael J. Smith
Tales from the Crypt
Donald