Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 9, 1965
Place of Birth:
Houston, Texas, USA
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K. Todd Freeman
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Auction | |
| 2025 | Bird in Hand | Bower |
| 2022 | The Same Storm | Leon Robinson |
| 2021 | Naked Singularity | Jimmy Coates |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Captain Morgan |
| 2016 | WINNERS | Coach |
| 2016 | Anesthesia | Joe |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Dr. Baxter Stockman |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Polk |
| 2002 | A Gentleman's Game | Jeffrey |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules | Muddy |
| 1998 | There's No Fish Food in Heaven | Stan / Suzie |
| 1997 | The End of Violence | Six |
| 1997 | Grosse Pointe Blank | Kenneth McCullers |
| 1996 | House Arrest | Officer Davis |
| 1996 | Eraser | Duton |
| 1995 | Jeffrey | Barney's Waiter |
| 1991 | Grand Canyon | Wipe |
| 1991 | The Killing Mind | Fred Robinson |
| 1990 | Street Hunter | Pretzel |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Horror of Dolores Roach | Jeremiah |
| 2022 | The Rehearsal | Fake Kor |
| 2020 | FBI: Most Wanted | Linwood Williams |
| 2018 | God Friended Me | Bishop Thompson |
| 2017 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | Arthur Poe |
| 2016 | The OA | Masters |
| 2016 | High Maintenance | Bill |
| 2015 | Blindspot | Marcus White |
| 2013 | The Blacklist | Hobbs |
| 2012 | Elementary | Rafael |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Mr. Reynolds |
| 1997 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Mr. Trick |
| 1996 | Dangerous Minds | Jerome Griffin |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Vinegar |
| 1987 | A Different World | Novian Winters |