K. Todd Freeman
Born: 1965-07-09 in Houston, Texas, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2027
- The Auction as Karl Hartman
2025
- Bird in Hand as Bower
2023
- The Horror of Dolores Roach as Jeremiah
2022
- The Rehearsal as Fake Kor
- The Same Storm as Leon Robinson
2021
- Naked Singularity as Jimmy Coates
2020
- FBI: Most Wanted as Linwood Williams
2018
- God Friended Me as Bishop Thompson
2017
- A Series of Unfortunate Events as Arthur Poe
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Captain Morgan
2016
- The OA as Masters
- High Maintenance as Bill
- Anesthesia as Joe
- WINNERS as Coach
2015
- Blindspot as Marcus White
2014
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Dr. Baxter Stockman
2013
- The Blacklist as Hobbs
2012
- Elementary as Rafael
2008
- The Dark Knight as Polk
2002
- A Gentleman's Game as Jeffrey
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Mr. Reynolds
- The Cider House Rules as Muddy
1998
- There's No Fish Food in Heaven as Stan / Suzie
1997
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr. Trick
- Grosse Pointe Blank as Kenneth McCullers
- The End of Violence as Six
1996
- Eraser as Duton
- Dangerous Minds as Jerome Griffin
- House Arrest as Officer Davis
1995
- Jeffrey as Barney's Waiter
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Vinegar
1991
- Ricochet as Talk Show Guest
- Grand Canyon as Wipe
- The Killing Mind as Fred Robinson
1990
- Street Hunter as Pretzel
1987
- A Different World as Novian Winters