Norbert Leo Butz
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Norbert Leo Butz (born January 30, 1967) is an American actor and singer best known for his appearances in Broadway theatre.
He is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and he is one of only nine actors to have received the honor twice as lead actor.
Early and personal life
Butz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on January 30, 1967, as the son of Elaine (née Bourisaw) and Norbert Butz. He was born in a middle-class family; his parents are devout Catholics. He is the seventh of 11 children in the name of his father. Playing the male leads at local all-girl high schools, such as Cor Jesu Academy and Nerinx Hall, was one of his first theatre performances. He graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School. Butz obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Professional Actor Training Program. In 2013, Webster University will award him an honorary degree.
When an assassination attempt stabbed both her and her mother in her Seattle-area home on July 19, 2009, it made national news.
Georgia Teresa de Butz was born on January 2, 2011. Clara and Maggie Davis, Butz's older children from a previous marriage, are his two older daughters.
Career
Butz made his Broadway debut in 1996 as a replacement swing, which was a form of understudy. Butz later recalled Adam Pascal as Roger in 1997. 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) have all received the Tony Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical; and an Outer Critics Circle Award. He has appeared in The Last Five Years (Jamie), Saved (Fred), and Juno and the Paycock (Jerry Devine), and he has appeared in Cabaret and Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Butz' film roles have included Went to Coney Island, The Beback of God (Pawnbroker), Noon Blue Apples (Howard Philips), and West of Here (Josiah Blackwell).
Butz's productions include the film Dan in Real Life (with Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, and Dane Cook), which opened in October 2007, and Fifty Words Off-Broadway with Elizebeth Marvel at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (2008). In January 2008, he appeared as Captain Richard King in the Lonesome Dove prequel, Comanche Moon.
Butz stepped in to replace Jeremy Piven in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow; Piven suddenly and unexpectedly dropped out of the game after having health issues; Butz stayed on the role until January 13, 2009, when William H. Macy assumed the lead for the remainder of the play.
Butz was a drama instructor at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, for the spring semester in 2008.
In the ABC show The Deep End, Rowdy Kaiser appeared as Rowdy Kaiser.
Jeffrey Skilling performed on Broadway in EnRON from April to May 9, 2010. Despite Tony nominations, the show was unsuccessful in ticket sales.
Butz appeared in the 2011 drama indie film Higher Ground with Vera Farmiga, who also directed it.
Butz starred Carl Hanratty in the film Catch Me If You Can, which attracted pre-Broadway tryouts at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington, from July 28 to August 14, 2009. Butz appeared as Carl Hanratty in the Broadway play Catch Me If You Can, which opened on April 10, 2011 and closed in September 2011. He received his second Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and his second for Best Actor in a Musical.
Butz appeared in one episode of the NBC musical drama Smash in April 2012. Butz appeared in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film about Tim and Jeff Buckley that premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, as Hal Wilner.
Butz appeared in Theresa Rebeck's Dead Accounts from November 29, 2012 to January 6, 2013, as both Katie Holmes, Jayne Houdyshell, Josh Hamilton, and Judy Greer.
He appeared in the new Andrew Lippa musical Big Fish, which premiered in Chicago in the spring and opened in the Neil Simon Theatre in October, directed by Susan Stroman.
In 2012, he appeared in Uncle Peck's limited engagement revival of Paula Vogel's play How I Learned to Drive. In the 2013 film Better Live Through Chemistry, he appeared as a scientist. In the Netflix television series Bloodline, Kevin Rayburn played Kevin Rayburn.
Alfred Doolittle, the father of the leading role, Eliza Doolittle, appeared in the 2018 Broadway revival of My Fair Lady as Alfred Doolittle. For the performance, he received a nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
He appeared in TWOHANDER at Feinstein's/54 Below from July 9 to September 28, 2019 with Sherie Rene Scott and musical director Todd Almond. Butz appeared on stage with Scott in the first productions of the musicals Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Last Five Years.
Butz appeared as Craig Maddox in J. H. Wyman's NBC drama series Debris.