John Benjamin Hickey

John Benjamin Hickey
Born	June 25, 1963 (1963-06-25) (age 46) Plano, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–present

John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. On Broadway, he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995, a role he would recreate for the 1997 film version. He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, and played Reverend John Hale in the Tony-nominated 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

On film, in addition to the aforementioned role in Love! Valour! Compassion! Hickey played the lead in the 1998 independent film Finding North and played Jack Dunphy in the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous, along with supporting roles in a number of other films, including The Ice Storm and The Anniversary Party. Hickey's best-known television role is perhaps that of Philip Stoddard on the short-lived gay-themed ABC sitcom It's All Relative. He appeared in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sequel to the 2007 film, playing Galloway, a fictionalized anti-Transformer National Security Advisor.

Hickey was born in Plano, Texas. He is openly gay.^[1]

References

External links

• John Benjamin Hickey at the Internet Movie Database
• John Benjamin Hickey at the Internet Broadway Database