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Shuler Hensley (born
March 6,
1967) is a
Tony Award-winning
American singer and actor.
Biography
Early life
Hensley was born in
Atlanta, Georgia. The youngest of three children, Hensley grew up in
Marietta, Georgia. His father, Sam P. Hensley, Jr., is a former
Georgia Tech football star, retired civil engineer and former state senator. His mother, Iris Antley Hensley, was a ballerina and the Artistic Director of the Georgia Ballet. Hensley had an early start in show business at the age of four when he appeared as Fritz in her production of
The Nutcracker.
He was educated at
The Westminster Schools and attended the
University of Georgia on a
baseball scholarship. After attending a recital by
Jessye Norman and being cast as Judge Turpin in a college production of
Sweeney Todd, he decided to leave university after his year in order to study voice at the
Manhattan School of Music where he majored in opera and graduated in 1989. From there he went to the
Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, and obtained his Master's Degree in 1993.
Early career
His stage career began in the early 1990s with roles such as Pitkin in
On the Town, Joe in
The Most Happy Fella, and Miles Gloriosus in
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, He has also sung in the
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas Pirates of Penzance and
Patience and in the operas
Carmen,
Faust,
La bohème and
Don Giovanni. And in addition to an early
Oklahoma! casting as Jud Fry at the
North Shore Music Theatre,
Boston, Shuler also played Curly at the Skylight Opera Theatre,
Milwaukee.
In 1996, he went to
Hamburg, Germany to perform the title role in
The Phantom of the Opera in
German.
Oklahoma!
In 1998, he was cast as Jud Fry for London's
National Theatre production of
Oklahoma!. The revival was a huge success and Hensley received wonderful personal notices as well as the
Olivier Award.
He continued to play the role when the show transferred to the
West End (1999), the only
United States native in the cast, and then to
Broadway (2002-2003) where he won the
Tony for his performance. He also won the 2002
Drama Desk Award and the
Outer Critics Circle Award for the same role.
Broadway
Hensley played Inspector Javert for a year in the Broadway production of
Les Misérables (2000-2001). He appeared in the country-rock and blues musical
The Great American Trailer Park Musical (2004-2005) and in May 2006, he opened in the
David Henry Hwang –
Phil Collins Disney musical
Tarzan as Kerchak.
Hensley is currently playing the role of Frankenstein's monster in the stage musical of
Mel Brooks'
Young Frankenstein, which opened on
Broadway in
November 2007.
Films and television
Hensley has appeared in:
His television appearances include
Monday Night Mayhem (2002) and the series and
Ed.
Family
Hensley is married to Paula DeRosa and they've two children.
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