Len Cariou

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Birth Name: Leonard Joseph Cariou

Age: 84, born 30 September 1939

Country of origin: Canada

Currently Residing In: United States

Height: 5' 9"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Heather Summerhayes

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Description: LEN CARIOU currently co-stars with Tom Selleck as Henry Reagan on the hit CBS series Blue Bloods, now entering its tenth season. He is a distinguished member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and a three-time Tony nominee, for Applause, A Little Night Music, and for his legendary performance as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, (Tony award-winner, Best Actor). He is a pre-eminent interpreter of the work of Stephen Sondheim. His other Broadway credits include Nightwatch, Cold Storage, Teddy & Alice, Dance a Little Closer, The Speed of Darkness, Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, and Proof. He has toured the U.S. as Ca LEN CARIOU currently co-stars with Tom Selleck as Henry Reagan on the hit CBS series Blue Bloods, now entering its tenth season. He is a distinguished member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and a three-time Tony nominee, for Applause, A Little Night Music, and for his legendary performance as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, (Tony award-winner, Best Actor). He is a pre-eminent interpreter of the work of Stephen Sondheim. His other Broadway credits include Nightwatch, Cold Storage, Teddy & Alice, Dance a Little Closer, The Speed of Darkness, Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, and Proof. He has toured the U.S. as Cap’n Andy in Showboat, and as Nils Bohr in Copenhagen. As Joe Keller in The Gate Theatre of Dublin’s All My Sons he helmed the longest-running, highest-grossing production in that theatre’s history, reprising a role for which he had previously won raves at the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles.

He began his classical career on the stage of the Stratford Festival of Canada, and returned to lead the company in 1981 and 1982. His repertoire includes the title roles in Oedipus the King, Macbeth, Cyrano, Coriolanus and two productions of King Lear, as well as Iago, Petruchio, Prospero and many others. Off-Broadway, he is proud of his work as Ernest Hemingway in Papa, William O. Douglas in Mountain, Joseph Stalin in Master Class, and A Sorrow Beyond Dreams. Regionally he has starred in a multitude of productions at theatres throughout Canada and the U.S. including The Kennedy Center, The Mark Taper Forum, The Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut, The Guthrie Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe and Canadian Stage. He appeared with Zoe Caldwell in the historic MTC production of Mother Courage, directed by John Hirsch.

On film, he has co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal in Prisoners, The Four Seasons with Alan Alda, Executive Decision, Thirteen Days, About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson, Secret Window with Johnny Depp, Flags of Our Fathers, and 1408. He was awarded a Genie (Canada’s Oscar) for Best Actor in the film One Man. Most recently he appeared with Hailee Steinfeld in Bumblebee.

Mr. Cariou earned an Emmy nomination as FDR in HBO’s Into the Storm. He co-starred in 6 episodes of Damages with Glenn Close, Martin Short and Lily Tomlin as Louis Tobin, a character based on Bernie Madoff, and spent two seasons as powerhouse political appointee Judd Fitzgerald in the Showtime series Brotherhood. He guest-starred with Liev Shreiber on CSI:Las Vegas, and has been seen on The Practice, West Wing, Law & Order, The Outer Limits, and Swift Justice to name only a few. He is well known for his several appearances as Michael Hagerty in Murder She Wrote. Among his many TV movies are Surviving, Man in the Attic, Who Will Save Our Children, There Were Times Dear (PBS), Miracle on Route 880, Killer in the Mirror, Hallmark Hall of Fame’s The Summer of Ben Tyler, and Nuremberg (TNT).

Mr. Cariou is known for his voice-over work in commercials, books-on-tape and film, especially The Jonestown Flood, which won an Academy Award; as Harry Bosch in Michael Connolly’s well-known novels, the narration of From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall, and most recently as the voice of Hemingway in The True Gen.

In 2008 he directed a production of Glengarry Glen Ross (Manitoba Theatre Centre) which sold out it’s mid-winter run despite outside temperatures of 40 below zero. He is a former Artistic Director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and former Associate Director of the Guthrie Theatre. While at the Guthrie he directed The Crucible and Of Mice and Men. In addition, he directed Arlene Francis in Don’t Call Back on Broadway, and off-Broadway he directed The Petrified Forest. He also received Best Director honors at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton for directing James Whitmore in Death of a Salesman.

In 2012 Cariou made his New York cabaret debut at 54 Below, with a musical memoir. He returned to 54 Below in December 2013 with a solo evening of Gershwin. He premiered his one-man show, Broadway and the Bard off-Broadway in 2016 and performed a widely hailed limited U.S. tour in 2018 and 2019. He will appear off-Broadway in Harry Townsend’s Last Stand in fall of 2019.

Mr. Cariou is the recipient of the Order of Canada, the Order of Manitoba, and Honorary degrees from the University of Windsor (Ontario) and the University of Manitoba. He loves golf, baseball and gin rummy.
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