John Shea
JOHN SHEA, one of the most versatile actors of his generation, has been awarded for a wide range of performances on stage, screen, and television around. Among them: Broadway: Yentl (Theatre World Award); End of the World; Romeo and Juliet; London West End: The Normal Heart; Off-Broadway: The Director; How I Learned to Drive (with Molly Ringwald); The Dining Room (shot for Great Performances); Ancestral Voices (Lincoln Center); Sorrows of Stephen; American Days (Drama Desk nom.) Long Day's Journey Into Night (Jefferson Award nom.) Among his forty films: Academy Award and Plame d'Or winner Missing; Windy City; (Best Actor, Montreal Film Festival); Stealing Home; A New Life; Hussy; The Adventures of Sebastian Cole; Lune de Miel (Honeymoon); Freejack; Unsettled Land; Weekend in the Country; The Impossible Spy (China's Golden Panda, Best Actor, co-starring with Eli Wallach). Television: A Will of Their Own; Kennedy (BAFTA Best Film): Baby M (Emmy Award, co starring Anne Jackson); Small Sacrifices; Coast to Coast (BBC); Ladykiller; See Jane Run; and two series: WIOU, and the international hit Lois and Clark (Lex Luthor). For Southie, which he co-wrote, Mr. Shea's film directing debut starring Donnie Walhlberg, Rose Mc Gowan, Amanda Peet, and Anne Meara, he won last year's Seattle Film Festival Best Independent Film Award. Bio as of May, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Performance - April, 2000 - Watch now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)