Denis O'Hare

Denis O'Hare is the kind of character actor I trust completely. Trained at Northwestern, the Kansas City native won a Tony for Take Me Out and built a film resume of sharp supporting turns in Charlie Wilson's War, Milk, Changeling, and Dallas Buyers Club. But it's his vampire king Russell Edgington on True Blood that I keep coming back to, gleefully theatrical and genuinely menacing. He moves between Broadway and screen without ever losing his edge, and he can pivot from gravitas to camp in a single scene. That stage-trained precision is exactly why I look for his name in a cast list.

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Name (English)

Denis O'Hare

Name (Japanese)

デニス・オヘア

Reading

でにす・おへあ

Born

January 17, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

University

Northwestern University

Awards & achievements

• 2003 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
• Clarence Derwent Awards
• 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor

• Official sitehttps://denisohare.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ohdenis/
• Xhttps://x.com/denisohare
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20O'Hare
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%98%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q629696

Tags

• Missouri
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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