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Gifted American actor Roger Bart was born on September 29, 1962, in Norwalk, Connecticut, and is a graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 2004, he appeared in his first major picture role in the remake of "The Stepford Wives," and he also starred as assistant Carmen Ghia in the film version of "The Producers." Roger has won a Tony Award for his dramatic portrayal of Snoopy in the Broadway revival of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," but he is most known as the murderous pharmacist on television's dramedy "Desperate Housewives." Bart has two daughters Eller and Alexandra and divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.
The nephew of producer-turned-Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart (Islands in the Stream), actor Roger Bart specialized in evenhanded portrayals of characters with "extreme" personalities that belied and offset the actor's seemingly average, everyman appearance. Among other accomplishments, Bart received critical laurels for his evocation of an outré homosexual in Frank Oz and Scott Rudin's uneven comedic update of The Stepford Wives in 2004. Bart followed that up by deftly playing the flamboyant Carmen Ghia, personal assistant to transvestite director Roger de Bries, in the 2005 Susan Stroman-directed musical comedy remake of Mel Brooks' The Producers, and then played one of two seriously disturbed American businessmen who buy into a thrill-kill franchise in Eli Roth's splatter-fest Hostel Part II (2007). Bart is perhaps best known, however, for his portrayal of George Williams on the prime-time black comedy hit Desperate Housewives (2004-2005). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide