Leonard, Robert Sean

Leonard, Robert Sean (b. 1969), actor. The handsome leading man, who has quickly become one of Broadway's most accomplished actors, is equally adept at the classics as with new works. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey, and was in summer stock at the age of twelve, essaying Shakespearean roles by the time he was fifteen. Leonard studied at Fordham University and made his New York debut in 1985, first getting noticed on Broadway as the British youth Christopher in Breaking the Code (1987). Among his notable performances were a passionate Eugene Marchbanks in Candida (1993), the Irish alter ego “Private Gar” in Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1994), the math scholar Valentine Coverly in Arcadia (1995), the romantically inclined dentist Valentine in You Never Can Tell (1998), the young poet‐scholar A. E. Housman in The Invention of Love (2002), the Vietnam vet Ken Talley in Fifth of July (2003), and the would‐be poet Edmund in Long Day's Journey Into Night (2003).