Len Cariou
Biography
A Canadian actor, singer, and theater director, Len Cariou started onstage in Canada and the United States before becoming a Broadway leading man. Born in Winnipeg, he made his Broadway debut in 1968 in The House of Atreus and earned a Tony nomination for starring opposite Lauren Bacall in Applause. He received further Tony nominations for A Little Night Music, then won the Tony and a Drama Desk Award for creating the title role in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opposite Angela Lansbury. His screen work includes The Four Seasons (1981), About Schmidt (2002), Secret Window (2004), Boynton Beach Club (2005), 1408 (2007), The Onion Movie (2008), Into the Storm (2009), Prisoners (2013), Spotlight (2015), and A Little Night Music (1977). He played Franklin D. Roosevelt in Into the Storm, earning an Emmy nomination, and from 2010 to 2024 co-starred as Henry Reagan on Blue Bloods.
87years old
Turns 88 on September 30in 352 days
- Born Winnipeg
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Leonard Joseph Cariou
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 41 years1977 to 2018
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A first
Cariou was the first actor to play Walt Disney, a role he took in 1995 for A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, a biography based on her book.
First role
Cariou's first appearance came in 1959, in Damn Yankees at Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg. He also helped found the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
A first
Cariou took the part of Joe Keller in All My Sons at the Gate Theatre in Dublin in 2009, a run that became that theater's longest-running and highest-grossing play.
Len Cariou movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Len Cariou's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.1 billion
10 of the 17 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 17 films: 10 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$468M41.2% of the total
- 2$133M11.7% of the total
- 3$122M10.7% of the total
- 4$122M10.7% of the total
- 5$106M9.3% of the total
- 6$93M8.2% of the total
- 7$50M4.4% of the total
- 8$34M3.0% of the total
$8.6 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
Awards
Three awards and honors from 1970 to 1979, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Awards | |||
| 1979 | Best Actor in a Musical | Won | |
| Other honors | |||
| 1970 | Theatre World Award | Won | |
| Officer of the Order of Canada | Won | ||
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