Joe Mantello
Biography
Joe Mantello is an American actor and director who has worked widely on stage and on screen. He grew up in Rockford, Illinois, and trained for the theater in North Carolina before settling in New York, where he helped start the Edge Theater and became a founding member of the Naked Angels company. His Broadway acting debut came in Angels in America, which brought him a Tony nomination as Best Featured Actor in a Play, and he later played Ned Weeks in a 2011 revival of The Normal Heart, earning a leading actor nomination, and Tom in The Glass Menagerie in 2017. As a director he won Tonys for Take Me Out, Death of a Salesman and Assassins, and staged Wicked, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Humans, Three Tall Women and The Boys in the Band. He entered the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2018.
63years old
Turns 64 on December 27in 74 days
- Born Rockford
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Joseph Mantello
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 33 years1989 to 2022
Every film, newest first
- 2022Still Working 9 to 5IMDb rating 7.5
- 2020The Boys in the Band: Something PersonalIMDb rating 7.2
- 2014The Normal HeartIMDb rating 7.9
- 1989CookieIMDb rating 5.5
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Early training
Mantello helped launch the Edge Theater in New York City alongside actress Mary-Louise Parker and writer Peter Hedges. He was also among the original members of the Naked Angels theater company.
First role
Joe Mantello's first work in the theater was as an actor. He appeared in The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel and in Walking the Dead by Keith Curran.
A role that slipped away
A 2010 Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Lips Together, Teeth Apart that Mantello directed was postponed indefinitely after star Megan Mullally quit.
Joe Mantello movies on Netflix
Worked with
Joe Mantello shares two films with Matt Bomer, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Matt Bomer's page
Jim Parsons's page
Alfred Molina's page
Allison Janney's page
Jane Fonda's page
Jerry Lewis's page
All films by Ryan Murphy
Susan SeidelmanDirector, 1 film, 1989
All films by Susan Seidelman
Joel Kazuo KnoernschildDirector, 1 film, 2020
All films by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild
Awards
Five awards and honors from 2003 to 2004, two of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Awards | |||
| 2004 | Best Direction of a Musical | Won | |
| 2003 | Best Direction of a Play | Won | |
| Other honors | |||
| 2003 | Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director | Won | |
| Clarence Derwent Awards | Won | ||
| Drama League Award | Won | ||
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.