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Anthony Dean Rapp is an American stage and film actor.

Biography

Rapp was born on 26 October, 1971 in Joliet, Illinois. He attended high school at Joliet West High School in Joliet and theatre camp at the prestigious Michigan Interlochen Arts Academy. Rapp's brother is playwright Adam Rapp. Rapp also has a sister, Anne, and a stepbrother, Jeff, as well as a "little sister" Rachel, a cousin of his who was taken in by his mother.

Career

He first performed on Broadway in 1981, at the age of ten, in The Little Prince and the Aviator, a short-lived musical based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel The Little Prince. He also appeared as a teenager in the 1987 movie Adventures in Babysitting
, which was directed by Chris Columbus. Columbus would later direct Rapp in the film version of RENT.

Rapp has gone on to appear in several movies and Broadway shows. His notable work includes the film A Beautiful Mind
, and the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation
.

Rapp is probably best known for playing Mark Cohen in the Off-Broadway and original Broadway and London casts of Jonathan Larson's musical RENT
. He reprises that role in the film version of RENT
, which was released on November 23, 2005. Fans of RENT closely associate Rapp with that show, and he has given numerous television and print interviews regarding the show and its development. Some of Rapp's photographs from rehearsals of RENT have been published.

In 2000, Rapp released a solo CD, entitled Look Around.

Rapp identifies as bisexual, or "queer" as he prefers to be called, although he prefers emotional relationships with men. He's an advocate in show business for LGBT rights. He came out on one of his playbills. As of 2005, Rapp's partner is actor Rodney To. They have three cats and want to adopt a baby.

In 2006, Rapp released a memoir about his days in RENT, as well as his mother's struggle with cancer and his own struggle with finding himself, entitled Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent, published by Simon & Schuster.

Rapp also heads a band called "AlbinoKid."

Movies

Adventures in Babysitting
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
A Beautiful Mind
The Beach Boys - An American Family
Cruise Control
David Searching
Dazed and Confused
Far From Home
Man of the Century
The Mantis Murder
Open House
Paradisco
RENT
Road Trip
Scaring the Fish
School Ties
Six Degrees of Separation
Sky High
(TV Show)
Twister
Winter Passing

Theatre

Feeling Electric
The Little Prince and the Aviator
Little Shop of Horrors
Precious Sons
RENT
Six Degrees of Separation
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

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