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Kevin Anderson

ActorBorn January 13, 1960 (65 years)
Kevin Anderson (born January 13, 1960) is an American theater, film and TV actor, as well as a singer and drummer. He is best known for his roles as Ben Woodward in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Robert G. Kennedy in Hoffa (1992), Bob Richmond in Rising Sun alongside Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, Peter Lewis in A Thousand Acres (1997), Frank Gifford in Monday Night Mayhem (2002), Mr. Parable in Charlotte's Web (2006), and Father Ray in the ABC series Nothing Sacred (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for this role). He belongs to the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which has also featured John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, and Laurie Metcalf. He has won a Theatre World Award and Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans . In 1993, he created the role of Joe Gillis in the original London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard opposite Patti LuPone who originated the role of Norma Desmond. Both Anderson and LuPone were subsequently fired from the production without warning, having been told that they would be reprising their roles in the original Broadway production of the show.

Anderson won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and was nominated for a Tony Award for the revival of Death of a Salesman. In January 2008 he opened on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba. Since September 2009, he has started as Andy Dufresne in "Shawshank Redemption" at the Wyndhams Theatre in London.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Father's Day
  • Ruby's Bucket of Blood
  • Power and Beauty

Known For

  • Sleeping with the Enemy
  • Rising Sun
  • Hoffa
  • Liebestraum
  • Firelight
  • Salomé
  • A Thousand Acres
  • When Strangers Appear
  • Miles from Home
  • In Country
  • The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
  • Eye of God
  • Father's Day
  • The Wrong Man
  • The Night We Never Met
  • Orphans
  • Monday Night Mayhem
  • Nothing Sacred
  • Ruby's Bucket of Blood
  • Gregory's Two Girls
  • Power and Beauty
  • Carry Me Home
  • Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years
  • Skin

Filmography

2023
Justified: City Primeval (TV Series) · as Lonnie
2014
Heaven Is for Real · as Mr. Baxter
2013
Salomé · as John The Baptist
2011
Father's Day · as Father O'flynn
2006
Charlotte's Web · as Mr. Arable
2004
Carry Me Home · as Charlie
2003
Skin (TV Series)
2002
Power and Beauty · as John F. Kennedy
2002
Monday Night Mayhem · as Frank Gifford
2001
2001
2001
The Doe Boy · as Hank
2000
1999
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Frank Sullivan
1999
1998
The FBI Files (TV Series) · as Reenactment Actor
1997
Firelight · as John Taylor
1997
Eye of God · as Jack Stillings
1997
A Thousand Acres · as Peter Lewis
1997
Nothing Sacred (TV Series) · as Father Ray
1995
Balto · as Balto
1993
The Wrong Man · as Alex Walker
1993
Rising Sun · as Bob Richmond
1993
1992
Hoffa · as Robert F. Kennedy
1991
Liebestraum · as Nick Kaminsky
1991
Sleeping with the Enemy · as Ben Woodward
1990
Orpheus Descending · as Val Xavier
1989
In Country · as Lonnie
1988
Miles from Home · as Terry Roberts
1987
Orphans · as Philip
1987
A Walk on the Moon · as Everett Jones
1985
Pink Nights · as Danny
1984
Miami Vice (TV Series)
1983
Risky Business · as Chuck (as Kevin C. Anderson)
1982
Silver Spoons (TV Series) · as Fast Eddie

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