K. Todd Freeman
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.
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Credits
- 2025 · The Auction as
- 2023 · The Horror of Dolores Roach as Jeremiah
- 2022 · The Same Storm as Leon Robinson
- 2022 · The Rehearsal as Fake Kor
- 2021 · Naked Singularity as Jimmy Coates
- 2020 · FBI: Most Wanted as Linwood Williams
- 2018 · God Friended Me as Bishop Thompson
- 2017 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Captain Morgan
- 2017 · A Series of Unfortunate Events as Arthur Poe
- 2016 · The OA as Masters
- 2016 · High Maintenance as Bill
- 2016 · WINNERS as Coach
- 2016 · Anesthesia as Joe
- 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 · The Cider House Rules as Muddy
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Mr. Reynolds
- 1998 · There's No Fish Food in Heaven as Stan / Suzie
- 1997 · The End of Violence as Six
- 1997 · Grosse Pointe Blank as Kenneth McCullers
- 1997 · Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr. Trick
- 1996 · Dangerous Minds as Jerome Griffin
- 1996 · House Arrest as Officer Davis
- 1996 · Eraser as Duton
- 1995 · Jeffrey as Barney's Waiter
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Vinegar
- 1991 · Grand Canyon as Wipe
- 1991 · The Killing Mind as Fred Robinson
- 1990 · Street Hunter as Pretzel
- 1987 · A Different World as Novian Winters