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Norbert Leo Butz (born January 30, 1967) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his work in Broadway theatre. He is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and is one of only nine actors ever to have won the award twice.

Norbert Leo Butz
Butz after a performance of Catch Me If You Can in 2011
Born	(1967-01-30) January 30, 1967 (age 55) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Education	Webster University (BFA) University of Alabama (MFA)
Occupation	Actor singer
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Michelle Federer ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	3

Early and personal life

Butz was born on January 30, 1967, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Elaine (née Bourisaw) and Norbert Butz.[1] He was raised in a middle-class family; his parents are devout Catholics.[2][3] He is the seventh of 11 children and is named after his father.[4] Some of his first theatre roles included playing the male leads at local all-girl high schools, such as Cor Jesu Academy and Nerinx Hall. He graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School. Butz earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Professional Actor Training Program.[5] He would later receive an honorary degree from Webster University in 2013.[6]

The murder of his sister, Teresa Butz, made national news when an assailant stabbed both her and her girlfriend in her Seattle-area home on July 19, 2009.[7][8]

Butz's daughter Georgia Teresa was born on January 2, 2011. Butz has two older daughters, Clara and Maggie Davis, from a previous marriage.[9]

Career

Butz made his Broadway debut as a replacement swing – a type of understudy – in Rent in 1996, after original swing David Driver was let go. Butz ultimately replaced Adam Pascal as Roger in 1997. Additional Broadway credits include Thou Shalt Not (Camille Raquin, 2001–2002), for which he received a Tony Award nomination; Wicked (the original Fiyero, 2003); and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Freddy) for which he received the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, a Drama League Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award. His Off-Broadway credits include The Last Five Years (Jamie), Saved (Fred), and Juno and the Paycock (Jerry Devine), and he has toured as the Emcee in Cabaret and as Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Butz's film roles have included Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five (Pawnbroker), Noon Blue Apples (Howard Philips), and West of Here (Josiah Blackwell).

Butz's projects include the film Dan in Real Life (with Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, and Dane Cook), released in October 2007, the world premiere of Is He Dead?, a hitherto unproduced Mark Twain play that opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on December 9, 2007, and Fifty Words Off-Broadway with Elizebeth Marvel at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (2008).[10] In January 2008, he appeared as Captain Richard King in the miniseries adaptation of the Lonesome Dove prequel, Comanche Moon.

Starting December 23, 2008, Butz stepped in to replace Jeremy Piven in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow; Piven suddenly and unexpectedly dropped out of the play after he experienced health problems. Butz took over the part until January 13, 2009, when William H. Macy assumed the role for the remainder of the play's run.[11]

Butz taught at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, for the spring semester in 2008 in the drama department.[12][13]

He starred as Rowdy Kaiser in the ABC show The Deep End.

From April to May 9, 2010, he returned to the Broadway stage in ENRON as Jeffrey Skilling.[14] Despite Tony nominations, the play struggled with ticket sales.

Butz starred in the 2011 drama indie film Higher Ground with Vera Farmiga, who also directed it.[15]

Butz originated the role of Carl Hanratty in the musical Catch Me If You Can which played pre-Broadway tryouts at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington, from July 28 through August 14, 2009.[16] Butz played the role of Carl Hanratty in the Broadway production of Catch Me if You Can, which opened on April 10, 2011,[17] and closed in September 2011. For this role he won his second Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical[18] and his second Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.[19]

In April 2012, Butz appeared as himself in one episode of the NBC musical drama Smash. Butz played Hal Wilner in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.[20][21]

From November 29, 2012 to January 6, 2013, Butz appeared on Broadway in Theresa Rebeck's Dead Accounts, opposite Katie Holmes, Jayne Houdyshell, Josh Hamilton, and Judy Greer.

In 2013 he starred in the new Andrew Lippa musical Big Fish, which premiered in Chicago in the spring and opened on Broadway in the Neil Simon Theatre in October, directed by Susan Stroman.[22]

In 2012, he played Uncle Peck in a limited engagement revival of Paula Vogel's play How I Learned to Drive. He also starred in the 2013 film Better Living Through Chemistry. He played Kevin Rayburn in the 2015 Netflix television show Bloodline.

He also starred in the 2018 Broadway revival of My Fair Lady as Alfred Doolittle, the father of the leading role, Eliza Doolittle. He earned a nomination for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the production.

From July 9–28, 2019, he appeared in an original musical collaboration titled TWOHANDER at Feinstein's/54 Below alongside Sherie Rene Scott, with musical director Todd Almond.[23][24] Butz previously shared the stage with Scott in the original productions of the musicals Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Last Five Years.

In 2021, Butz played the role of Craig Maddox in the NBC drama series Debris which is written by J. H. Wyman.[25]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five	Pawnbroker
2000	Looking for an Echo	Vocals for Anthony Pirelli
2002	Noon Blue Apples	Howard Phillips
	West of Here	Josiah Blackwell
2007	Dan in Real Life	Clay Burns
2010	Fair Game	Steve
2011	Higher Ground	Pastor Bill
2012	Greetings from Tim Buckley	Hal Willner
	Disconnect	Peter
2013	The English Teacher	Vice Principal Phil Pelaski
2014	Better Living Through Chemistry	Agent Andrew Carp
2019	Luce	Dan Towson
	Wonder Park	Peanut (voice)
	Good Posture	Neil
2020	Give or Take	Ted
2021	Flag Day	Doc
2022	Better Nate Than Ever	Rex Foster

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	John Fenwick	Episode: "Misleader"
2007	Playing Chicken	Jake	Unsold pilot
2008	Comanche Moon	Richard King	Episode: "#1.2"
2009	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Archie Beuliss	Episode: "In Treatment"
2010	The Deep End	Rowdy Kaise	7 episodes
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Larry Lamotte	Episode: "Bump and Grind"
2011	The Good Wife	Mr. Medina	Episode: "Two Courts"
	Late Show with David Letterman	Carl Hanratty	Episode: "Dr. Phil/Chris Hemsworth/Catch Me If You Can"
	Blue Bloods	Detective Kramer	Episode: "Moonlighting"
	The Miraculous Year	Terry Segal	Television film
2012	County	Billy Krakowski	Unsold pilot
2015–2017	Bloodline	Kevin Rayburn	Main cast; 33 episodes
2016–2017	Mercy Street	Dr. Byron Hale	Main cast; 12 episodes
2018	Trust	Gordon Getty	3 episodes
	The First	Matthew Dawes	2 episodes
2019	Fosse/Verdon	Paddy Chayefsky	Miniseries
	Madam Secretary	Lochlainn Heeney, Jr.	2 episodes
2021	Debris	Craig Maddox	Main cast
2022	The Girl from Plainville	Conrad "Co" Roy II
TBA	Justified: City Primeval	Norbert	Upcoming series

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997–2000	Rent	Roger Davis
1999	Cabaret	Emcee
2000	Juno and the Paycock	Jerry Levine
2001–02	Thou Shalt Not	Camille Raquin
2002	The Last Five Years	Jamie Wellerstein
	Carousel	Jigger Craigin
2003	Buicks	Bill Abeline
2003–04	Wicked	Fiyero Tigelaar
2005–06	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Freddy Benson
2007–08	Is He Dead?	Jean-François Millet
2008–09	Speed-the-Plow	Bobby Gould
2008	Fifty Words	Adam
2010	Enron	Jeffrey Skilling
2011	Catch Me If You Can	Agent Carl Hanratty
2012	How I Learned to Drive	Uncle Peck
2012–13	Dead Accounts	Jack
2013	Big Fish	Edward Bloom
2017	The Whirligig	Michael
2018	My Fair Lady	Alfred P. Doolittle

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2002	Tony Award	Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Thou Shalt Not	Nominated
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical		Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical		Nominated
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical	The Last Five Years	Nominated
2003		Outstanding Actor in a Play	Buicks	Nominated
2005	Tony Award	Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Won
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Won
	Drama League Award	Distinguished Performance		Won
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Won
2011	Tony Award	Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Catch Me if You Can	Won
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Won
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Nominated
2018	Tony Award	Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	My Fair Lady	Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical		Won
2019	Grammy Award	Best Musical Theater Album[26]		Nominated

Discography

• Memory and Mayhem: Live at 54 Below (2013)[27]
• The Angel Band Project: An Evening With Norbert Leo Butz (2014)
• Girls Girls Girls: Live at 54 Below (2016)[28]
• The Long Haul (2019)[29]

References

External links

• Norbert Leo Butz at the Internet Broadway Database
• Norbert Leo Butz at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Norbert Leo Butz at IMDb
• Norbert Leo Butz at AllMovie
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Norbert Leo Butz
• Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing, January 2008

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Norbert Leo Butz (* 30. Januar 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Musicaldarsteller. Er ist zweimaliger Gewinner des Tony Award als Bester Hauptdarsteller in einem Musical. Er ist einer von nur neun Akteuren überhaupt, die diese Auszeichnung doppelt erhalten haben.

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