Nick Wyman

Nick Wyman (born May 18, 1950) is an American stage, television, and film actor, and is a former president of the Actors' Equity Association.

Early life and education Wyman was born in Portland, Maine and raised in Summit, New Jersey and attended Harvard University.

Career Wyman received his big break as Freddy in the 1981 revival of My Fair Lady which starred original Higgins Sir Rex Harrison. He later created the role of Firmin in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera. He featured in Die Hard with a Vengeance as Hungarian terrorist and explosive expert Mathias Targo. In 2008, he was cast as John Barsad in the Broadway musical adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. He was elected President of Actors Equity in May 2010 and served until 2015.

Personal life He is the older brother of voice actor Oliver Wyman. He married actress Beth McDonald in 1979. They have two daughters and a son.

Acting Credits

Theater +YearTitleRoleTheaterNotes 1972 Grease Vince Fontaine Broadhurst Theatre Broadway Replacement 1974 The Magic Show Feldman,Goldfarb (Understudy) Cort Theatre Broadway Replacement 1975 Very Good Eddie Mr. Percy Darling Booth Theatre Original Broadway Cast 1978 On the Twentieth Century Bruce Granit St. James Theatre Broadway Replacement 1979 Whoopee! Sheriff Bob Wells ANTA Theatre Broadway Replacement 1980 Paris Lights James Joyce/F. Scott Fitzgerald American Place Theatre Off-Broadway 1981 My Fair Lady Freddy Eynsford-Hill Uris Theatre Original Broadway Cast 1984 Kennedy at Colonus Actor #2 47th Street Theatre Off-Broadway 1985 Doubles Chuck Ritz Theatre Original Broadway Cast 1987 The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 Patrick O'Reilly Circle Theater Company Off-Broadway Longacre Theatre Original Broadway Cast 1988 The Phantom of the Opera Monsieur Richard Firmin Majestic Theatre Original Broadway Cast 1991 1776 Thomas Jefferson Williamstown Theatre Festival Regional 1992 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Judge Turpin Paper Mill Playhouse Regional 1993 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Frollo Westbeth Theatre Off-Broadway 1995 Anyone Can Whistle Dr. Detmold Carnegie Hall Concert 1996 Three in the Back, Two in the Head Donald Jackson MCC Theater Off-Broadway Applause Howard Paper Mill Playhouse Regional 1997 Les Misérables Monsieur Thénardier / Chain Gang Imperial Theatre Broadway Replacement and Closing Cast 2000 The Producers Franz LiebkindNola Rehearsal StudiosWorkshop 2004 A Tale of Two Cities John Barsad Little Shubert Theatre Two day workshop Sly Fox Captain Crouch Ethel Barrymore Theatre Original Broadway Cast 2005 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Lawrence Jameson Imperial Theatre Began as standby and took over role later Tom Jones Mister Partridge Theatre at St. Clements Part of NYMF's 2005 Next Link series 2006 Carnival! Schlagel Paper Mill Playhouse Regional Desperate Measures Governor 45th Street Theatre Part of the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival Take Me Along Nat Miller Theatre at St. Peter's Church Part of the 2006 Musicals in Mufti Concert A Wonderful Life Henry Potter Paper Mill Playhouse Regional 2007 Howard Katz Howard Katz (Understudy) Laura Pels Theatre 2008 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying J.B. Biggley White Plains Performing Arts Center Regional A Tale of Two Cities John Barsad Al Hirschfeld Theatre Original Broadway Cast 2009 1776 John Hancock Paper Mill Playhouse Regional 2011 Catch Me If You Can Roger Strong Neil Simon Theatre Original Broadway Cast 2012 Bullet for Adolf Jurgen New World Stages Off-Broadway 2017 Sousatzka Mr. Cordle Elgin Theatre World Premiere Production Austen's Pride Ensemble Two day workshop Desperate Measures Governor York Theatre Off-Broadway2018 Desperate Measures Governor New World Stages Off-BroadwayA remount of the 2017 York Theatre production Network Arthur Jensen Belasco Theatre Original Broadway Cast2022 Help White Man #8 The Shed Off-Broadway

Film

Television