Brian Delate

Brian Delate is an actor who was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up mostly in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He discovered theater at Bucks County Community College, earned a BFA in directing and acting from Rider University, and spent part of his senior year as a directing intern at Princeton's McCarter Theatre. His professional acting began in 1981 with the New York Shakespeare Festival, where he was cast in Henry IV, Part I and The Tempest. He received critical acclaim for Tracers in 1984 and 1985, when the play ran in New York and London. Daytime television and commercial work followed. William Friedkin cast him in Python Wolf in 1987, and he was cast by David Jones in Jacknife alongside Robert DeNiro and Ed Harris. Peter Weir directed him in The Truman Show (1998), while Neil Jordan directed him in The Brave One (2007). He also wrote, directed and acted in his first indie feature, Soldier's Heart.