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. He has played supporting roles in films such as Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and The Cider House Rules (1999), played a prominent recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–1999), and was a series regular on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).
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.
Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1993. 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. 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. He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role.
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.
He performed in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Downstate, which concluded its run on November 18, 2018.
He portrayed Mr. Poe in the 2017 Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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as Jeremiah
2022
as Leon Robinson
2022
as Fake Kor
2021
as Jimmy Coates
2020
as Linwood Williams
2018
as Bishop Thompson
2017
as Captain Morgan
2017
as Arthur Poe
2016
as Masters
2016
as Bill
2016
as Coach
2016
as Joe
2015
as Marcus White
2014
as Dr. Baxter Stockman
2013
as Hobbs
2012
as Rafael
2008
as Polk
2002
as Jeffrey
1999
as Muddy
1999
as Mr. Reynolds
1998
as Stan / Suzie
1997
as Six
1997
as Kenneth McCullers
1997
as Mr. Trick
1996
as Jerome Griffin
1996
as Officer Davis
1996
as Duton
1995
as Barney's Waiter
1994
as Vinegar
1991
as Wipe
1991
as Fred Robinson
1990
as Pretzel
1987
as Novian Winters