K. Todd Freeman

K. Todd Freeman

Born 1965-07-09 (age 60) Houston, Texas, USA
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Biography

Kenneth Todd Freeman (born July 9, 1965) is an American actor. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards over the course of his career and has won one Drama Desk Award. He has played supporting roles in films such as Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and The Cider House Rules (1999), played a prominent recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–1999), and was a series regular on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).

Born in Houston, Texas, Freeman went to the local High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before later graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1987.

Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1993. In the same year, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his lead performance in the Apartheid drama The Song of Jacob Zulu. More recently, Freeman has played the role of Doctor Dillamond from Wicked in the first North American tour, Chicago and Broadway productions. In 2015, he was nominated for his second Tony Award, this time for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Sissy Na Na in Airline Highway. He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role.

He has also had supporting roles in various films such as Eraser (1996), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Cider House Rules (1999), and The Dark Knight (2008). On television, he earned a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr. Trick.

He performed in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Downstate, which concluded its run on November 18, 2018.

He portrayed Mr. Poe in the 2017 Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events.

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Known For

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight

2008

as Polk

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

2014

as Dr. Baxter Stockman

Eraser
Eraser

1996

as Duton

The Cider House Rules
Ricochet
Ricochet

1991

as Talk Show Guest

Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank

1997

as Kenneth McCullers

Naked Singularity
Naked Singularity

2021

as Jimmy Coates

The End of Violence
Anesthesia
Anesthesia

2016

as Joe

Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon

1991

as Wipe

Jeffrey
Jeffrey

1995

as Barney's Waiter

House Arrest
House Arrest

1996

as Officer Davis

Street Hunter
Street Hunter

1990

as Pretzel

The Same Storm
The Same Storm

2022

as Leon Robinson

A Gentleman's Game
A Gentleman's Game

2002

as Jeffrey

There's No Fish Food in Heaven
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The Auction

2027

as Karl Hartman

The Killing Mind
The Killing Mind

1991

as Fred Robinson

Bird in Hand
Bird in Hand

2025

as Bower