Justin Kirk Biography
Born: May 28, 1969
Born in Oregon and raised on an Indian reservation, actor Justin Kirk started his career at a very young age. After studying at the Children's Theatre School in Minnesota, he lived in New York City working as a struggling actor and hotel bellboy. One of his first off-Broadway roles was Bobby Brahms, the blind younger lover of an aging choreographer in Terrence McNally's play +Love! Valour! Compassion! This led to an Obie award, a career on Broadway, and a part in the 1997 feature film adaptation directed by Joe_Mantello.
Kirk continued to work on-stage in New York and Los Angeles, helping to found the Drama Department theater company. In 1999, his interests turned toward television and film. In the straight-to-video independent film The_Eden_Myth, he played a young man whose father (Gil_Rogers) arranges his marriage. He also starred in the barely released comedy Chapter Zero starring Dylan_Walsh and Penelope_Ann_Miller. On television, he had a regular role on the WB sitcom Jack & Jill about mainstream twentysomethings living in New York City. He played the moderately intelligent Barto (a character not unlike Ross on Friends) who was always hanging around the slightly less-intelligent Mikey (a character not unlike Joey on Friends). In 2002, he appeared in Harry_Shearer's pet project Teddy_Bears'_Picnic, an independent spoof of an exclusive men's retreat. The same year he played mental patient Morris Monk in Alec_Carlin's Outpatient, marking his first leading role in a feature film. Kirk gained much more exposure the next year as main character Prior Walter in the six-hour television miniseries version of Tony_Kushner's play Angels in America, first aired on HBO in December of 2003. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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