
Brian Kerwin
Department: Acting
Biography
Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. That same year he starred in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum and played Nick in a highly praised revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow. He also played opposite Kathy Baker in the South Coast Repertory production of The Man from Nebraska in 2006. His most recent stage appearance was in the Broadway production August: Osage County. Kerwin's feature films include Murphy's Romance, Hard Promises, 27 Dresses (as Katherine Heigl's character's father), Torch Song Trilogy, Love Field, Jack, King Kong Lives, The Myth of Fingerprints, and Debating Robert Lee. Kerwin has enjoyed an extensive career in television, beginning with the daytime serial The Young and the Restless in 1976. In addition to many television movies, his credits include a regular role on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, recurring roles on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Chisholms (four 1979 episodes as Gideon Chisholm), Roseanne, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck and Big Love and guest appearances in The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Frasier, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Medium, Without a Trace, and Desperate Housewives. In 2007, he joined the cast of the soap opera One Life to Live. Brian was also in a television movie with Michelle Pfeiffer called Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson. He played her married lover. His name was spelled Brain Kerwin in the credits. Kerwin has been married to Jeanne Marie Troy since September 2, 1990. They have three children, Finn, Matilda, and Brennan. The family lives in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Kerwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

27 Dresses
2008

Jack
1996

King Kong Lives
1986

Torch Song Trilogy
1988

Getting Away with Murder
1996

Murphy's Romance
1985

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1995

Love Field
1992

Wet Gold
1984

Miss All-American Beauty
1982

Hard Promises
1992

Unlikely Angel
1996

A Real American Hero
1978

Abandoned and Deceived
1995

Flash
1997

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
2004

It Came from Outer Space II
1995

Addiction: A 60's Love Story
2015

King Kong! The Living Legend
1986

Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
1997

Spies, Inc.
1992

Critical Choices
1996

Getting Wasted
1980

Debating Robert Lee
2004

Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1987

Common Ground
2000

You Must Be Joking
2014

The Help
2011

Sins of Silence
1996

Challenger
1990

Nickel Mountain
1984

Hometown U.S.A.
1979

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992

Giving Up the Ghost
1998

The Paradise Connection
1979

The Myth of Fingerprints
1997

Dear Diary
1996

The Exonerated
2006

Intimate Agony
1983

Mr. Jealousy
1998

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999

The Tragedy of King Lear
1982

Dangerous Liaisons
2014

St. Elsewhere
1982

Medium
2005

One Life to Live
1968

Grey's Anatomy
2005

B. J. and the Bear
1979

Desperate Housewives
2004

The Love Boat
1977

Monk
2002

Simon & Simon
1981

Tales from the Crypt
1989

Highway to Heaven
1984

Roseanne
1988

Nip/Tuck
2003

Without a Trace
2002

Big Love
2006

Close to Home
2005

Boston Legal
2004

Battle of the Network Stars
1976

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
1979

The Hitchhiker
1983

Beggars and Choosers
1999

Angel Falls
1993

The Chisholms
1979

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Logan's Run
1977

Elementary
2012

The West Wing
1999

The Knick
2014

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Frasier
1993

The Client List
2012

Law & Order
1990

The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999

The Love Boat
1977

The Love Boat
1977

The Blue and the Gray
1982

Strong Medicine
2000

Great Performances
1971

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Switched at Birth
1991

Bluegrass
1988