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Bill Irwin
William Mills Irwin is an American actor, choreographer, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He also worked as a choreographer on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 19…
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entertainment · American actor, choreographer, clown and comedian (born 1950) · circus performer · theatre director · clown · stage actor · film actor · mime artist · actor · comedian · playwright · television actor · also Bill Irwin, William Mills Irwin, William Mills "Bill" Irwin, William Thomas Irwin, Irwin
Born 11 April 1950 · Q603317
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2026· 9 entries
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Metro Weekly: Bill Irwin’s Beckett Effect
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Metro Weekly: Bill Irwin’s On Beckett Is an Exhilarating Triumph
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BroadwayWorld: Interview: Theatre Life with Bill Irwin
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Irwin played the gargantuan 60-foot Cyclops, using animatronics, puppetry and voice work, in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
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2023· 2 entries
BroadwayWorld: Bill Irwin Photos
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Played Clov in the Irish Repertory Theatre's Off-Broadway production of Endgame
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2022· 1 entry
Irwin guest starred on The Gilded Age on HBO
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2020· 1 entry
Appeared as Su'Kal in Star Trek: Discovery
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2016· 1 entry
With Shiner and Irwin returning and a new third performer, musician Shaina Taub, performing with her band between the sketches
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2014· 1 entry
Guest starred in the episode "The One Percent Solution" of CBS' Elementary
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2013· 1 entry
Teamed with his occasional partner David Shiner to create and perform in the Off-Broadway "clowning revue-with-music" Old Hats along with actress and musician Nellie McKay
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2011· 2 entries
Irwin guest starred in the pilot episode of the CBS television drama A Gifted Man
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Appeared in King Lear at the Public Theatre
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2010· 1 entry
The New Victory Theater presented Irwin with the first-ever New Victory Arts Award
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2006· 1 entry
Irwin played the solitary Mr
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (2005).
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Won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his appearance as George in the revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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Starred as George alongside Kathleen Turner in a revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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2004· 1 entry
The Signature Theatre Company (New York), received a $40,000 NEA grant for "the world premiere production of 'Mr
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2002· 1 entry
With Sally Field in the replacement cast of The Goat or Who is Sylvia
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2000· 1 entry
The Jazz Tap Ensemble in Los Angeles received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) "for a commission of a new work by Bill Irwin
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1994· 1 entry
And he appeared in film adaptations of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Laramie Project and A Midsummer Night's Dream
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1993· 1 entry
This show had already won a Drama Desk Award for "Unique Theatrical Experience" and an Outer Critics Circle "Special Achievement" Award
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1992· 1 entry
Won an Obie Award for his performance in Texts for Nothing
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1988· 1 entry
And an Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award in 1989
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1984).
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Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1984).
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Was named a Guggenheim Fellow and was the first performance artist to be awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship
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1980· 1 entry
Appearing as Harold Hamgravy in Robert Altman's Popeye starring Robin Williams
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1979· 1 entry
Irwin left the company to pursue stage work
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1975· 1 entry
Helped found the Pickle Family Circus in San Francisco, California
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1974· 1 entry
With a degree in theatre arts and attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College the following year
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1972· 1 entry
Irwin transferred to Oberlin to continue studies with Blau
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1950· 2 entries
Born 1950-04-11.
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In Santa Monica, California, to Elizabeth (née Mills), a teacher, and Horace G
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