Everything about Harry Groener totally explained
Harry Groener (born
September 10,
1951) is an American
actor and
dancer, perhaps best known for playing
Mayor Wilkins in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 3).
Biography
Personal life
Groener was born in
Augsburg,
Bavaria,
Germany to an opera singer mother and a father who worked as a concert pianist, office clerk, and composer. He emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of two. As a teenager, Groener was apprenticed at the
San Francisco Ballet; he went on to study drama at the
University of Washington. His wife is actress
Dawn Didawick, with whom he can be seen dancing in
Dance with Me.
Career
Groener's reputation in
New York City rests almost entirely on his work in musical theater, although the bulk of his roles outside New York have been in classical drama. His Broadway credits include
Is there life after high school?, Will Parker in
Oklahoma! (
Tony Award nomination,
Theatre World Award), Munkustrap in
Cats (Tony nomination), Georges/George in
Sunday in the Park With George, and Bobby Child in
Crazy for You (Tony,
Drama Desk, and
Outer Critics Circle Award nominations). He has performed in
regional theatres across the country, including the San Diego
Old Globe Theatre (where he's an associate artist),
Mark Taper Forum, Westwood Playhouse,
South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf Theater, A.C.T., and the Williamstown Theater Festival.
Groener has performed regularly on TV, including guest appearances on
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990), (1996), (2005) and several dozen other series; he was also a series regular in the
sitcom Dear John.. In 1998-1999, Groener portrayed
Richard Wilkins, the evil mayor of
Sunnydale on the 3rd season of cult TV series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Groener reprised his role in cameo appearances in
Buffy's 4th and 7th seasons. Notable film work includes
Road to Perdition and
About Schmidt. He also appeared in two episodes of the
The West Wing as the Secretary of Agriculture.
He was a regular vocalist for the
Varèse Sarabande label, performing on such recordings as
Shakespeare on Broadway,
Cole Porter: A Musical Toast, and various installments of the
Unsung Broadway and
Lost in Boston series.
He recently (
as of 2007) left Broadway, where he played King Arthur in
Monty Python's Spamalot, and was replaced by
Jonathan Hadary on
October 31.
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