K. Todd Freeman
American actor
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Kenneth Todd Freeman (born July 9, 1965) is an American actor. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards over the course of his career and has won one Drama Desk Award, and one Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in performance. He has played supporting roles in films such as Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and The Cider House Rules (1999), played a prominent recurring role as Mr. Trick on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–1999), and was a series regular as Mr. Poe on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019). He is an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and has appeared in many of their plays, and subsequent Broadway and Off-Broadway transfers, notably Airline Highway, Downstate, and The Song of Jacob Zulu, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
K. Todd Freeman | |
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| Born | Kenneth Todd Freeman July 9, 1965 |
| Education | University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) |
Life and career
Born in Houston, Texas, Freeman went to the local High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before later graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1987.[1]
Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1993.[2] In the same year, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his lead performance in the Apartheid drama The Song of Jacob Zulu.[3] More recently, Freeman has played the role of Doctor Dillamond from Wicked in the first North American tour, Chicago and Broadway productions. In 2015, he was nominated for his second Tony Award, this time for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Sissy Na Na in Airline Highway.[4] He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role.[5]
He has also had supporting roles in various films such as Eraser (1996), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Cider House Rules (1999), and The Dark Knight (2008). On television, he earned a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr. Trick.[6]
He performed in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Downstate, which concluded its run on November 18, 2018. It later transferred to Playwrights Horizon's and Freeman was nominated for his second Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, and won an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Performance for his role as Dee.[7]
He portrayed Mr. Poe in the 2017 Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events.[8]
Filmography
Theatre
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Street Hunter | Pretzel | |
| 1991 | Ricochet | Talk Show Guest | |
| Grand Canyon | 'Wipe' | ||
| 1994 | Full Cycle | Clerk | |
| 1995 | Jeffrey | Barney's Waitor | |
| 1996 | Eraser | FBI Agent Dutton | |
| House Arrest | Officer Davis | ||
| 1997 | Grosse Pointe Blank | NSA Agent Kenneth McCullers | |
| The End of Violence | Six O One | ||
| 1998 | There's No Fish Food in Heaven | Stan / Suzie | |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules | Muddy | |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Polk | |
| The Lucky Ones | Detective # 2 | ||
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Dr. Baxter Stockman | |
| 2015 | Anesthesia | Joe | |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Captain Morgan | |
| 2018 | Weightless | Dr. Mcleod | |
| 2021 | Naked Singularity | Jimmy | |
| The Same Storm | Leon Robinson | ||
| 2025 | Bird In Hand | Bower | |
| 2026 | The Debut | Completed |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | A Different World | Novian Winters | Episode: "Monet Is the Root of All Evil" |
| The Killing Mind | Fred Robinson | TV movie | |
| 1992 | Brooklyn Bridge | Scoot | Episode: "On the Road" |
| 1993 | Tracey Ullman Takes on New York | Byron | TV movie |
| Ghostwriter | Malenga | Episode: "Lost in Brooklyn: Part 1" | |
| 1995 | Strange Luck | Driving Instructor | Episode: "Over Exposure" |
| 1995–97 | NYPD Blue | Arthur Cartwell | 3 episodes |
| 1996 | Sisters | Chardonay/Larry | 2 episodes |
| 1996–97 | Dangerous Minds | Jerome Griffin | 17 episodes |
| 1998 | Touched by an Angel | Vincent 'Vinegar' Finegar | Episode: "Doodlebugs" |
| 1998–99 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Mr. Trick | 5 episodes |
| 2000 | City of Angels | Episode: "Cry Me a Liver" | |
| 2011 | A Gifted Man | Officer Dale Woodrow | Episode: "In Case of Exposure" |
| 2014 | Believe | Gary Wise | Episode: "Together" |
| Elementary | Raphael | Episode: "Terra Pericolosa" | |
| 2015 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Mr. Reynolds | Episode: "Community Policing" |
| 2016 | Blindspot | Marcus | Episode: "One Begets Technique" |
| The OA | Masters | Episode: "Homecoming" | |
| 2017–19 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | Mr. Poe | 22 episodes |
| 2019 | The Blacklist | Hobbs | Episode: "The Osterman Umbrella Company" |
| God Friended Me | Bishop Thompson | 2 episodes | |
| 2020 | High Maintenance | Bill | Episode: "Backflash" |
| 2021 | FBI: Most Wanted | Linwood Williams | Episode: "Run-Hide-Fight" |
| 2022 | The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey | Darwin Andrews | Episode: "Coydog" |
| The Rehearsal | Fake Kor | Episode: "Orange Juice, No Pulp" | |
| 2023 | The Horror of Dolores Roach | Jeremiah | 8 episodes |
| 2025 | Will Trent | Carver | Episode: "No Faith in Second Chances" |
Awards and nominations
Theatre
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Tony Award[25] | Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play | The Song of Jacob Zulu | Nominated |
| 2013 | Obie Award[26] | Performance | Fetch Clay, Make Man | Won |
| 2015 | Tony Award[25] | Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play | Airline Highway | Nominated |
| Drama Desk Award[27] | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Won | ||
| 2019 | Evening Standard Theatre Award[28][29] | Best Actor | Downstate | Nominated |
| 2023 | Drama Desk Award[30] | Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Obie Award[7] | Sustained Achievement in Performance | Downstate | Won |
| 2026 | Dorian Award[31] | Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production | Prince Faggot | Nominated |
