Mark Nelson (actor)

Mark Nelson (born September 26, 1955) is an American actor, director and teacher. He appeared on Broadway in Angels in America, The Invention of Love,^[1] After the Fall and Three Sisters at Roundabout Theatre Company, and the original casts of A Few Good Men, Rumors, Biloxi Blues and Amadeus. For his performance as Einstein in Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile^[2] he received the Obie, Drama League, Carbonell and San Francisco Critics Awards. He played Herr Schultz in the 2016 national tour of Cabaret and acted off-Broadway in My Name is Asher Lev^[3] for which he received a Lortel nomination. Other roles include Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at The Shakespeare Theater,^[4] Uncle Vanya (in Bartlett Sher's production at the Intiman Theatre), Matt in Talley's Folly (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Bluntschli in Arms and the Man (Long Wharf Theatre) and two solo pieces: I Am My Own Wife^[5] by Doug Wright (Carbonell Award) and Underneath the Lintel^[6] by Glen Berger (Connecticut Critics Award). His TV work includes roles on Unforgettable, Law & Order and Spin City. He teaches acting at Princeton University^[7] and at New York City's HB Studio.^[8] He has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Dept.,^[9] McCarter Theatre, George Street Playhouse,^[10] and Chautauqua Theatre Company, and is a frequent guest director at the Juilliard School. He graduated from Princeton and then studied acting with Uta Hagen. In 2013 he received a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.^[11]

Filmography

Film and television roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Friday the 13th	Ned Rubenstein	Feature film
1981	The Chosen	Fighting Student	Feature film
1985	Remington Steele	Lino	Episode: "Gourmet Steele"
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Sam the Skate	Feature film
1991	Thirtysomething	Leonard Katz	Episode: "Melissa and Men"
1993	The Seventh Coin	Librarian	Feature film
1996	Law & Order	Stein	Episode: "Custody"
1996	The First Wives Club	Eric Loest	Feature film
1997	Liberty! The American Revolution	Loyalist	Episode: "Are We to Be a Nation? (1783-1788)"
1998	Suddenly Susan	Paul	Episode: "Not in This Life"
1998–2000	Spin City	Therapist	Recurring role (4 episodes)
1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Robert Stevens	Episode: "Payback"
1999	Now and Again	Doctor	Episode: "A Girl's Life"
2000	Law & Order	Julius Reinhard	Episode: "High & Low"
2002	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Mancuso	Episode: "Badge"
2002	Ed	Sid Pennington	Episode: "Neighbors"
2004	Law & Order	Dr. Stuart Barton	Episode: "Cut"
2007	American Experience	Nathaniel Pendleton	Episode: "Alexander Hamilton"
2010	Law & Order	Symposium Organizer	Episode: "Brazil"
2013	Unforgettable	Dr. Eugene Lustig	Episode: "Memory Kings"
2014	The Rewrite	Josh	Feature film
2014	The Good Wife	Principal Adam Englehardt	Episode: "The Trial"

References

1. Brantley, Ben (30 March 2001). "THEATER REVIEW; Housman's Hell, Stoppard's Style". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
2. "Picasso at the Lapin Agile". 23 October 1995. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
3. Brown, Scott. "Theater Reviews: The Great God Pan and My Name is Asher Lev". Vulture. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
4. Peter Marks (2011-06-29). "Mark Nelson is lone highlight in contrived 'Merchant of Venice' at Shakespeare". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409. Archived from the original on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
5. "Plain Dealer Review of 2005 'I Am My Own Wife," at the Cleveland Play House". 27 February 2009. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
6. "Underneath the Lintel". 22 May 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
7. "Faculty & Guest Artists". Archived from the original on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
8. "Mark Nelson, HB Studio NYC, Acting Teacher, former student of Uta Hagen". Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
9. "Theater Reviews". The New York Times. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
10. "Theater Reviews". The New York Times. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
11. "2009-2013 Alumni - Ten Chimneys Foundation". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-26.

External links

• Mark Nelson at IMDb
• Mark Nelson at AllMovie