1. Victor Garber, was born on March 16,1949 and is a Canadian stage and film actor and singer.
32 Facts About Victor Garber
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Victor Garber created the role of John Wilkes Booth in the original cast of the 1990 Off-Broadway run of Assassins.
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Victor Garber made his film debut as Jesus Christ in the musical Godspell.
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Victor Garber has been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards along with the casts of the critically acclaimed films Titanic, Milk, and Argo, winning for Argo.
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On television, Victor Garber is best known as Jack Bristow in the ABC series Alias for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nominations.
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Victor Garber was born in London, Ontario, Canada, and is of Russian-Jewish descent.
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Victor Garber's father was Joseph "Joe" Garber, and his mother, Bessie Hope Wolf, was an actress, singer, and the host of At Home with Hope Garber.
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Victor Garber has a brother, Nathan, and a sister, Alisa.
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Victor Garber attended Ryerson Elementary School and London Central Secondary School.
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Victor Garber enrolled in the children's program of the Grand Theatre, and, at age 16, he was accepted at a six-week summer theatre training program at the University of Toronto taught by Robert Gill.
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In 1967, after a period working as a solo folk singer, Victor Garber formed a folk group called The Sugar Shoppe with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood and Lee Harris.
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Victor Garber played Jesus Christ in Toronto's 1972 production of Godspell, alongside Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Gilda Radner, Dave Thomas, Paul Shaffer and Martin Short.
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Victor Garber appeared on Broadway in the original productions of Deathtrap, Sweeney Todd and Noises Off, and in the original Off-Broadway cast of Assassins, as well as the 1990s revival of Damn Yankees.
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In 1986, Victor Garber appeared at Circle in the Square opposite Uta Hagen in You Never Can Tell.
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Victor Garber has been nominated for four Tony Awards and opened the 48th Tony Awards program in 1994.
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Victor Garber reprised the role on Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre production, which opened in January 2010.
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Victor Garber received the 2018 Theatre World John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Victor Garber starred opposite Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler in The First Wives Club as film producer Bill Atchison, husband of Goldie Hawn's character, Elise Eliot, in 1996.
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In 2009, Victor Garber voiced DC Comics supervillain Sinestro in the direct-to-video animated film Green Lantern: First Flight.
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That same year, Victor Garber played a Klingon interrogator in JJ Abrams' Star Trek film; however, his scenes were deleted from the finished film.
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In 2010, Victor Garber had an uncredited cameo in The Town, directed by Ben Affleck, as David, a bank manager.
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In late 2012, he appeared in Affleck's film Argo, about the Iran hostage crisis; Garber portrayed Canadian Ambassador to Iran Kenneth D Taylor.
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Victor Garber's first leading role on television show was in CBS's 1985 summer series I Had Three Wives.
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Victor Garber portrayed Jack Bristow, the father of main character Sydney Bristow on ABC's Alias, earning three Emmy nominations.
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Victor Garber next starred on the television series Justice on Fox and ABC's Eli Stone.
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Victor Garber appeared as Olivier Roth in four episodes of the Canadian science drama ReGenesis.
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Victor Garber reprised his role as Martin Stein for a final time in a vocal cameo in the season nine episode "A New World, Part One".
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Victor Garber played the reoccurring character Admiral Halsey on The Orville.
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Victor Garber prefers to keep his personal life private and has largely stayed out of the tabloids.
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On October 10,2015, Andreesen announced on his Instagram page that he and Victor Garber were married in Canada.
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Victor Garber has Type 1 diabetes: he was diagnosed in 1962 at the age of 12.
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Victor Garber is good friends with his Alias co-star Jennifer Garner and officiated her 2005 wedding to Ben Affleck.