Aaron Scott Lazar is an American actor, artist and entrepreneur.
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Born | Cherry Hill, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Occupation | Actor, singer |
Years active | 2000–present |
Website | www |
Lazar was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[1] Lazar is of Jewish descent.[2][3] He graduated from Cherry Hill High School West[4] where he first started singing and performing in musicals while excelling academically and in track and field as a discus and javelin thrower. Lazar attended Duke University, where he earned a BA magna cum laude, while completing the prerequisite classes for medical school and taking the MCAT. After being accepted as one of only two masters candidates at the elite University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM),[5] he put plans for being a surgeon on hold, earning an MFA in musical theater before moving to New York City.
Lazar's career spans theater, film, television, concert, cabaret, voice-over, and more recently producing.[6]
Aaron has performed with some of the world's greatest symphonies from the New York Philharmonic[7] to the NYPops at Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center, to Masada[8] as both a guest artist and soloist with his own critically acclaimed one man show ‘Broadway to Hollywood’.[9] His voice can be heard on numerous Broadway and off-Broadway cast albums.[10] [11]
Currently plays Reverend Paul Luke Thomas on FOX's Gothic Southern drama Filthy Rich.[12] [13]
He played Barry Weissman in the black comedy film This Is Where I Leave You.
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