Victor Garber Biography
Born: March 16, 1949
Broadway actor Victor Garber was born in London, Ontario, Canada. Through years of working on-stage, he has earned several Tony and Drama Desk nominations. He earned his first Obie award for his performance in +Wenceslas Square at the 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival. Some of his other stage credits include +Macbeth, +Sweeney Todd, +Damn Yankees, and Yasmina_Reza's +Art. After playing Jesus on-stage in Toronto, Garber reprised his role in David_Greene's 1973 film musical Godspell. He joined Greene again to play the lead in Liberace: Behind the Music (1988).
Staying busy with theater, Garber occasionally acts in supporting roles on the big screen. He appeared in two of Nora_Ephron's feature comedies: Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and Mixed_Nuts (1994). He also appeared in the tense drama Exotica in 1994, directed by fellow Canadian Atom_Egoyan. Throughout the '90s and beyond, he appeared in countless TV movies, from Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (1993) to Torso:_The_Evelyn_Dick_Story (2002). Some of his mainstream feature appearances include small parts in The_First_Wives_Club, Titanic, and Legally_Blonde. Meanwhile, he regularly appeared in a Canadian television mystery series, Criminal Instincts, based on the novels by Gail_Bowen, starting with the first installment Love and Murder in 2000. He played Inspector Phillip Menard to head police detective Joanne Kilborne (Wendy_Crewson). He also had a very comfortable home in Disney movies during this time, as he played the dad in Tuck_Everlasting, the king in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, and Daddy Warbucks in Rob_Marshall's 1999 TV feature Annie.
In 2001, Garber was cast as another dad in the dramatic spy series Alias. He played Jack Bristow, the CIA agent dad of Sydney Bristow (Jennifer_Garner). He earned an Emmy nomination for his work on the show. Characters for 2003 included a mayor in the ABC musical The_Music_Man and a detective in the independent drama Home_Room. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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