1. Barrett Conrad Foa was born on September 18,1977 and is an American singer, dancer, and actor.
29 Facts About Barrett Foa
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Barrett Foa is best known for his performances in Broadway theatre.
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Barrett Foa has played many leading characters in Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.
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Barrett Conrad Foa was born and raised in Manhattan, New York.
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Barrett Foa is the son of Conrad Foa, an international insurance broker, former musician and Army veteran, and mother Linda Rimanich, an executive, editor and author.
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Barrett Foa graduated from The Dalton School, a K-12 college preparatory school in New York City.
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Barrett Foa received his first paid job at the New London Barn Playhouse, a summer stock theatre in New Hampshire, after an audition at StrawHat Audition in 1995, which he thinks was "instrumental in moving his career forward".
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Barrett Foa played an effeminate version of evil Mordred in Camelot.
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Barrett Foa attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, earning his bachelor in fine arts in Musical Theatre in 1999.
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Barrett Foa kept doing summer stock through his college years and had earned his Equity card by the time he got his bachelor's degree.
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Barrett Foa has played many leading roles in plays and musicals Off-Broadway, and in regional theatre.
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Barrett Foa got his break playing Jesus in the 2000 Off-Broadway revival of the musical Godspell for the 30th anniversary.
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Barrett Foa was in the musical Camelot as the evil Mordred portrayed with a thick Scottish burr who is a punk bastard.
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Barrett Foa has performed on Broadway hundreds of times over a ten-year span; in the mid-2000s as Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q, and then was offered the role of Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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Barrett Foa took over a lead role in Avenue Q in 2005, and in 2006, a lead in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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Barrett Foa played Karel in The Lady In Question, a play by and starring Charles Busch from August 14 through September 2,2007.
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Barrett Foa played Tu-Ping in a workshop presentation of The Nightingale with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater at the New York Theatre Workshop directed by James Lapine.
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Barrett Foa had established himself on Broadway, and then took some friends' advice and moved to Los Angeles in the late 2000s to pursue television work.
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Barrett Foa soon picked up cameo and supporting roles in Numb3rs, The Closer, and HBO's Entourage.
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From 2009 to 2021, Barrett Foa portrayed Eric Beale, a computer, and technology "wizard" on the military police procedural show about the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, NCIS: Los Angeles.
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Barrett Foa auditioned for the operational psychologist character Nate Getz but the producers wrote the Beale part for him instead.
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Barrett Foa's recurring role in NCIS: Los Angeles was upgraded to a series regular in the middle of the first season after twelve episodes.
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In May 2021, after the 12th season finale of NCIS: LA, Barrett Foa announced that he was leaving the series after twelve seasons.
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Barrett Foa is co-writer, producer and star of For the Record: John Hughes, a live musical event featuring scenes and songs from the movies of the 1980s film director; it played multiple sold-out runs in LA and NYC.
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In July 2013, Barrett Foa played Harold Hill, the lead in the musical The Music Man, staged by the Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
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In May 2016 Barrett Foa bought a three-story, two-bedroom contemporary home in Silver Lake for $1.35 million.
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In February 2019, Barrett Foa publicly came out as gay on social media.
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Barrett Foa bought an "unconventional architectural" three-story, two bedrooms home in Silver Lake, Los Angeles in 2016, that was just built, for $1.4 million.
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Barrett Foa listed it for sale in September 2020 at $1.7 million.