1. Randolph Clarke Harrison was born on November 2,1977 and is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Justin Taylor on the Showtime drama Queer as Folk.
17 Facts About Randy Harrison
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Randy Harrison was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, where he starting acting early.
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Randy Harrison attended Bicentennial Elementary School and starred as Peter Pan in the school play.
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Randy Harrison was active in the Actorsingers and played Winthrop in a 1987 production of The Music Man.
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Randy Harrison moved to Alpharetta, Georgia, with his family at age eleven.
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Randy Harrison attended Pace Academy, a private prep school in Atlanta.
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Randy Harrison attended the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theatre.
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Randy Harrison had roles in other theatrical venues across the US, in productions such as Violet at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1776 at the St Louis Municipal Theatre and West Side Story at the Forestburg Playhouse, as well as productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Real Inspector Hound and A Cheever Evening.
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Randy Harrison made his television debut playing Justin Taylor, a gay teen, in 2000's American version of Queer as Folk, based on the British television series.
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In 2002, Randy Harrison played the character Sean in Bang Bang You're Dead, a made-for-television movie based on the play of the same name.
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In 2002, Randy Harrison starred in the play Deviant at the New York International Fringe Festival.
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In summer 2004, Randy Harrison made his Broadway debut as Boq in the musical Wicked.
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Randy Harrison has done several staged readings for Red Bull Theatre and starred in their "In the Raw" workshop production of A Tyger's Heart in February 2011.
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Randy Harrison has a substantial resume in regional theatre, most prominently as a featured player since 2005 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
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In 2006, Randy Harrison co-founded the Arts Bureau [1], an umbrella organization encompassing theatre, film, music, and writing.
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In 2024, Randy Harrison announced he had decided to leave the public eye and change careers to become a therapist.
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Randy Harrison, who is gay, dated Advertising Age columnist Simon Dumenco from 2002 to 2008; the two met when Dumenco interviewed Randy Harrison for a New York magazine cover story.