18 Facts About Anthony Rapp

1.

Anthony Rapp currently plays Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets on the television series Star Trek: Discovery.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,439
2.

Anthony Rapp participated in community theater as a child and won awards for his singing in junior high school.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,440
3.

Anthony Rapp attended high school at Joliet West High School and theatre camp at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,441
4.

Anthony Rapp moved to New York in 1989 to attend New York University as a film student, but dropped out after a semester.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,442
5.

Anthony Rapp has reportedly been friends with John Barrowman since the time he was in high school.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,443
6.

Anthony Rapp first performed on Broadway in 1981 in The Little Prince and the Aviator, a musical based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's novel The Little Prince.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,444
7.

Anthony Rapp went on to play the character of Mark Cohen in the off-Broadway and original Broadway casts of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,445
8.

Anthony Rapp developed a one-man stage show with music based on the memoir beginning in 2007, later performing it at such locations as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,446
9.

In 2005, Anthony Rapp played the doctor in the world premiere of Feeling Electric at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,447
10.

Anthony Rapp had a close relationship with his mother, who was battling cancer during the beginning of the off-Broadway and Broadway transfer of Rent.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,448
11.

Anthony Rapp first came out to his mother at the age of 18, and by her death in 1997 she had grown comfortable with it.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,449
12.

Anthony Rapp has identified as "bisexual" and "four-and-a-half" on the Kinsey scale.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,450
13.

Anthony Rapp has cited working with Larry Kramer as a young man for his commitment to activism and "liv[ing] an open life".

FactSnippet No. 1,195,451
14.

Anthony Rapp is a "die hard" Chicago Cubs fan and co-hosts the podcast The Clubhouse about baseball.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,452
15.

In November 2019, Anthony Rapp announced his engagement to his partner, Ken Ithiphol.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,453
16.

Anthony Rapp stated that at the end of the evening, an apparently drunk Spacey "picked [him] up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold", placed him on the bed, and held him down while tightening his grip on him.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,454
17.

Anthony Rapp had previously discussed the incident in a 2001 interview with The Advocate, but Spacey's name was redacted from publication to avoid legal disputes and public outing.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,455
18.

Anthony Rapp had previously claimed that reading this particular New York Times article inspired him to make his accusation against Spacey.

FactSnippet No. 1,195,456