
Brian d'Arcy James
Department: Acting
Biography
Brian d'Arcy James is an American actor and musician. He is known primarily for his Broadway roles, including Shrek in Shrek the Musical, Nick Bottom in Something Rotten!, King George III in Hamilton, and The Baker in Into the Woods. He has received five Tony Award nominations for his work.
Known For

The Endurance
2000

Monday Night Mayhem
2002

G
2002

Devil's Peak
2023

She Came to Me
2023

Let Me Go (The Right Way)
2022

Pain Hustlers
2023

Bombshell
2019

Ghost Town
2008

Exiled
1999

Hoke
2014

Time Out of Mind
2015

Spotlight
2015

Sisters
2015

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
2012

Shrek the Musical
2013

Game Change
2012

Rebel in the Rye
2017

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017

Millers in Marriage
2024

Bird in a Box
2012

Molly's Game
2017

1922
2017

Admission
2013

Trouble
2018

All These Small Moments
2019

First Man
2018

Song of Back and Neck
2018

The Kitchen
2019

Friends with Kids
2012

West Side Story
2021

Dark Phoenix
2019

Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies
2019

One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch
2012

Bombshell in Concert
2020

The Cathedral
2022

The Family McMullen
2025

Something Rotten!
2015

Smash
2012

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Love & Death
2023

Hawkeye
2021

13 Reasons Why
2017

Centaurworld
2021

The Good Wife
2009

Evil
2019

Manhunt
2017

Ironside
2013

Devs
2020

Mozart in the Jungle
2014

Dear Edward
2023

The Comey Rule
2020

Person of Interest
2011

The Copenhagen Test
2025

The Big C
2010

Rescue Me
2004

Those Were the Days
2011

Rabbit, Rabbit
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Tony Awards
1956