Brent Carver was a Canadian actor best known internationally for performances in Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman.
22 Facts About Brent Carver
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Brent Carver played the central role of Molina in the premier production in Toronto, in London's West End and on Broadway for which he won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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Brent Carver was the third of seven children, none of whom went into show business, apart from himself.
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Brent Carver almost became a teacher, but continued participating in theatre.
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Brent Carver attended the University of British Columbia from 1969 to 1972.
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Brent Carver sang from an early age with his father, who played guitar.
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Brent Carver was known for a variety of stage and film roles, including The Wars, Lilies, Larry's Party, Elizabeth Rex, Millennium, Shadow Dancing, and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love.
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Brent Carver originated the role of Gandalf in the Toronto stage production of The Lord of the Rings and appeared in several Soulpepper Theatre Company productions such as The Wild Duck and Don Carlos.
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In 1979 Brent Carver made his US debut in The Tempest, playing Ariel to Anthony Hopkins's Prospero.
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In 1982 Brent Carver won the first of his four Dora Awards as Horst in Bent.
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In 1992, Brent Carver originated the role of Molina in Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman when it premiered at the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto.
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Brent Carver played the role again at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End, where he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award, and again when the show moved to Broadway in 1993, where he won a Tony Award for his performance, as well as a Drama Desk Award.
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Brent Carver dedicated his Tony win to the late Canadian actress Susan Wright, who had died two years earlier in a fire in his Stratford Ontario house.
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In 1998 Brent Carver returned to Broadway and was nominated for a second Tony Award for his portrayal of Leo Frank in Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's musical Parade.
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Brent Carver was awarded a Drama Desk Award for the same role.
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Brent Carver portrayed Ichabod Crane in the 1999 TV film The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which aired on Odyssey.
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Brent Carver played the title role in "The Trouble with Harry", an episode of the television series Twice in a Lifetime.
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Brent Carver portrayed Leonardo da Vinci in Leonardo: A Dream of Flight in 2002.
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In 2003, Brent Carver appeared in the Off-Broadway production of My Life With Albertine at Playwrights Horizons, where he portrayed older Marcel and the Narrator.
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In May 2014, Brent Carver received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, for his lifetime contribution to Canadian theatre.
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In 2016, Brent Carver performed in a musical show titled Walk Me to the Corner at the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in Toronto.
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Brent Carver died on August 4,2020, at the age of 68 at home in Cranbrook.