BIOGRAPHY
 BRIAN
DENNEHY has won two Tony Awards as Best Actor in a Play, in 2003 for
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and in 1999 for the
50th anniversary production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Mr Dennehy also received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award
and an Emmy nomination as best actor for Showtime's television adaptation of
the latter. He also starred on Broadway in Brian Friel's Translations.
At Chicago's Goodman Theatre he appeared in the leading roles in Robert
Falls' productions of Long Day's Journey Into Night (2002), Death
of a Salesman (1998), A Touch of the Poet (1996), The Iceman
Cometh (1992) and Galileo (1986). He and Falls collaborated again
in 1992 for a remounting of The Iceman Cometh at The Abbey Theatre in
Dublin. Additional theatre credits include Peter Brook's 1988 production of
The Cherry Orchard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic
Theatre; Wisdom Bridge Theatre's production of Rat in the Skull;
Says I, Says He at The Mark Taper Forum and the Phoenix Theatre in New
York.
Mr Dennehy has also starred in numerous television movies and mini-series
and was nominated for an Emmy on four other occasions - for his work in
Burden of Proof, To Catch a Killer (The John Wayne Gacy Story),
Murder in the Heartland and A Killing in a Small Town.
Mr Dennehy is perhaps best known for his work in feature films, which
include Semi-Tough, 10, Rambo: First Blood, Gorky Park, Never Cry Wolf,
Twice in a Lifetime, Cocoon, Silverado, F/X, Legal Eagles, Best Seller,
Presumed Innocent, Tommy Boy, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet,
and Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect, for which he
received the Chicago Film Festival Award as best actor.
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