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Randy Harrison Profile |
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Birth Date: November 2, 1977
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Birth Place: New Hampshire, USA
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Birth Name: Randolph Charles Harrison
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Randy Harrison is an openly gay
American actor whose best-known role so far is that of
Justin Taylor in the 2000s television drama Queer as Folk.
Harrison was born in New Hampshire, but his family moved to
the South when he was 11. He was raised in Alpharetta,
Georgia and attended Pace Academy. His father is a business
executive for a large paper company, his mother a 'thwarted
artist', and his brother a bank manager. Harrison is
partnered with journalist Simon Dumenco and they share a
home in Brooklyn.
A young veteran of the stage, Randy has been acting since
the age of seven. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
in Musical Theatre (2000) from the University of
Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, where he starred
in such productions as Hello Again, Shopping and Fucking,
and Children of Eden. He received his start in theatre at
Pace Academy in Atlanta, including a turn as the leading
role in the school's 1992 production of Peter Pan. While in
high school he studied acting with George Mengert and voice
with Valerie Kennedy.
He soon went on to perform in other theatrical venues across
the U.S., playing in productions such as Violet at the
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1776 at the St. Louis
Municipal Theatre and West Side Story at the Forestburg
Playhouse, as well as productions of A Midsummer Night's
Dream, The Real Inspector Hound and A Cheever Evening.
Harrison made his television debut in 2000 in the American
version of the British television series Queer as Folk.
In 2002, Harrison was cast as "Sean" in the
made-for-television movie Bang, Bang, You're Dead, which is
based on the play of the same name. In the summer of 2004,
Harrison performed on Broadway as "Boq" in the musical
Wicked. In July 2005, Harrison returned to theatrical acting
as the lead in Equus. He was cast in the Alabama Shakespeare
Festival production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented
by SITI Company in Spring of 2006 and returned to the
Berkshire Theater Festival mainstage in July 2006's Amadeus.
He joins the cast of The Glass Menagerie this winter as
'Young Tom' at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He will
return to the Berkshires Theater Festival in July, in the
role of "Billy" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. |
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Other Information |
Graduate of Pace Academy in Atlanta, Georgia
Father is a CEO of a paper company.
His only brother and sibling is a bank manager.
Mother is a thwarted artist.
Says he wanted to be an actor after his parents couldn't
find a babysitter and had to take him to a production of
Peter Pan. |
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