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K. Todd Freeman

K. Todd Freeman

Born: 1965-07-09 • Houston, Texas, USA

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.

Filmography
Bird in Hand poster
Bird in Hand
2025 • Bower
The Same Storm poster
The Same Storm
2022 • Leon Robinson
Naked Singularity poster
Naked Singularity
2021 • Jimmy Coates
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales poster
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 • Captain Morgan
WINNERS poster
WINNERS
2016 • Coach
Anesthesia poster
Anesthesia
2016 • Joe
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles poster
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 • Dr. Baxter Stockman
The Dark Knight poster
The Dark Knight
2008 • Polk
A Gentleman's Game poster
A Gentleman's Game
2002 • Jeffrey
The Cider House Rules poster
The Cider House Rules
1999 • Muddy
There's No Fish Food in Heaven poster
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998 • Stan / Suzie
The End of Violence poster
The End of Violence
1997 • Six
Grosse Pointe Blank poster
Grosse Pointe Blank
1997 • Kenneth McCullers
House Arrest poster
House Arrest
1996 • Officer Davis
Eraser poster
Eraser
1996 • Duton
Jeffrey poster
Jeffrey
1995 • Barney's Waiter
Grand Canyon poster
Grand Canyon
1991 • Wipe
Ricochet poster
Ricochet
1991 • Talk Show Guest
The Killing Mind poster
The Killing Mind
1991 • Fred Robinson
Street Hunter poster
Street Hunter
1990 • Pretzel
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The Auction
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Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy