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Marcus Frank Harelik (born June 5, 1951) is an American television, film, and stage actor, and playwright.

Mark Harelik
Born	Marcus Frank Harelik (1951-06-05) June 5, 1951 (age 71) Hamilton, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, playwright
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Spencer Kayden ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	1

Early life

Harelik was born in Hamilton, Texas.

In 1909, Harelik's Russian Jewish grandfather, Haskell Harelik—upon whom Harelik's 1985 play, The Immigrant, is based—immigrated to Galveston, Texas.[1][2]

Career

In 1987, he moved to Los Angeles where he co-wrote, with Randal Myler, Hank Williams: Lost Highway.[3] In 1990, he worked in the Howard Korder play Search and Destroy[3][4] and the William Ball play Cherry Orchard.[5]

Harelik has appeared in the films Election, Jurassic Park III, Eulogy, and For Your Consideration. For animation; he was the voice of Queen Uberta’s valet, Lord Rogers, in The Swan Princess. Harelik has played parts on the television series Seinfeld, Wings, Grace Under Fire, Will & Grace, NCIS, Boy Meets World, Breaking Bad, Bones, Six Feet Under and five episodes of the first season of The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Eric Gablehauser. He also played Sara Tancredi's lawyer in Prison Break. He appeared on the series finale of Cheers, in a 2002 episode of Joss Whedon's Angel as Count Kurushu, and "Counterpoint" an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. He also appeared in five episodes of short-lived NBC series Awake.[6]

In 2015, he appeared under his own name as an actor hired by the Heavenly host to play God then later as God himself in the TV series Preacher.

Harelik appeared in the Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza.[7] Harelik's play, The Immigrant, has been well-received,[8] and was adapted into a musical of the same name.

In 1997, he released a sequel, The Legacy, changing it from a true story to fiction.[9] He has appeared in several other plays including Temptation (1989),[10] The Heidi Chronicles (1991),[11] Elmer Gantry (1991),[12] Tartuffe (1999),[13] Old Money (2000),[14] The Hollow Lands (2000),[4] Be Aggressive,[15] The Beard of Avon (2001),[16] Cyrano de Bergerac (2004).[4] Harelik also played Dr. Paul Stickley in HBO's series Getting On, an American adaptation of the British sitcom of the same name.[6]

In 2015, Harelik co-starred as Jamie Thompson's father in This Isn't Funny, and in 2017, he played baseball player Hank Greenberg in the film Battle of the Sexes.

Personal life

He is married to actress Spencer Kayden, who has acted in theatre productions alongside him.[17] They have one child.[18]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	A Gnome Named Gnorm	Detective Kaminsky
1994	The Swan Princess	Lord Rogers	Voice
1999	Election	Dave Novotny
2001	Jurassic Park III	Ben Hildebrand
2004	Eulogy	Burt
2006	For Your Consideration	Round Table Host
2007	Watching the Detectives	Detective Barloe
2009	Timer	Dr. Serious
2009	The Job	Martin
2011	Meeting Spencer	David Thiel
2013	42	Herb Pennock
2015	This Isn't Funny	Joseph Thompson
2015	Trumbo	Edward 'Ed' Muhl
2017	Battle of the Sexes	Hank Greenberg

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Wings	Davis Lynch	5 episodes
1997	Seinfeld	Milos
1998	Star Trek: Voyager	Inspector Kashyk	1 episode
1999	Boy Meets World	Jedediah Lawrence	3 episodes
2005	Gilmore Girls	Stuart Wultz
2005	House	Mr. Foster
2006	Grey's Anatomy	Keith	1 episode
2007–2008	The Big Bang Theory	Dr. Gablehauser	5 episodes
2010	Breaking Bad	Doctor
2012	Awake	Carl Kessel	6 episodes
2015	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Julian Voorhees	1 episode
2015	The Leftovers	Peter
2016-2019	Preacher	God
2018	Castle Rock	Gordon	3 episodes
2019	The Morning Show	Richard	2 episodes
2022	The Rookie	William Bloomfield	1 episode

Awards and nominations

• 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical — The Immigrant (nominee)[1]
• 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical — Hank Williams: Lost Highway (nominee)[19]
• 2011 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow at Ten Chimneys Foundation[20]

Publications

• The Immigrant[21][22]
• The Legacy[23]

References

External links

• Mark Harelik at the Internet Broadway Database
• Mark Harelik at IMDb
• Mark Harelik at the Lortel Archives
• Mark Harelik at the BroadwayWorld.com Database

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Mark Harelik (* 5. Juni 1951 in Hamilton, Texas) ist ein US-amerikanischer Film-, Fernseh- und Theaterschauspieler sowie Bühnenautor.

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