Kelly AuCoin

Early life

AuCoin was born in the Portland suburb of Hillsboro, Oregon, the son of Les and Susan AuCoin, and grew up in Oregon and Washington, D.C., where his father served as a United States Congressman from 1975 to 1993.{{cite news |access-date=November 30, 2012 |archive-date=February 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222201221/http://labtheater.org/2012/11/up-close-radiance-star-kelly-aucoin/ |url-status=dead |access-date=June 8, 2010}} AuCoin is a graduate of Georgetown Day School and Oberlin College.{{cite web |access-date=June 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306104348/http://www.gds.org/ftpimages/416/download/spring%202001%20mag.pdf |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=dead

Career

Television

Upon arriving in New York, AuCoin landed small roles in several soap operas, including Guiding Light and The City. In the early 2000s, AuCoin appeared in episodes of The Sopranos and the first of many episodes of Law & Order. He has also appeared in other television series, such as The Bold Type, in which he played Jane Sloan's father during the show's final season, Madam Secretary, the NBC miniseries The Slap, Unforgettable, Person of Interest, Forever, The Following, Elementary, The Good Wife, White Collar, Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods, among others. He played the regular recurring role of Peter Keatch in the CBS series Waterfront, which was canceled before ever airing, despite having shot five episodes.

He appeared in 2024 in an episode of Law & Order.

For the 2012 presidential election, NPR's Planet Money team cast AuCoin as their "Fake Presidential Candidate" to give voice to "major economic policies they could all stand behind."

Film

His first major film role came in 2007, where he played State Department official Ellis Leach in The Kingdom. In 2009's Julie & Julia, AuCoin played one of the executives for the Houghton Mifflin publishing company who declined to publish Julia Child's soon-to-be-legendary cookbook. More recently he has appeared in False Positive, starring and written by Ilana Glazer, Complete Unknown, starring Rachel Weisz, Barry Levinson's The Wizard of Lies, starring Robert De Niro, Drunk Parents, starring Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek, and The Good House, starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.

Theater

In 2005, AuCoin appeared as Octavius in a Broadway revival of Julius Caesar, which starred Denzel Washington.{{cite news |author-link=Ben Brantley |access-date=June 9, 2010}} AuCoin has appeared in numerous other Off-Broadway stage productions, including Manhattan Theatre Club's productions of Of Good Stock and Long Lost, and Signature Theatre's 2014 revival of A. R. Gurney's The Wayside Motor Inn, directed by Lila Neugebauer, which won him, and the rest of the cast, a special Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Ensemble". Other Off Broadway productions include 2008's premiere of Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column,{{cite news |access-date=June 9, 2010}} 2009's Jailbait, by Deirdre O'Connor, directed by Suzanne Agins,{{cite news |access-date=June 9, 2010}} 2010's Happy Now?, by Lucinda Coxon,{{cite web |access-date=June 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016051139/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/135171-Primary-Stages-Sets-Cast-and-Creatives-for-Off-Broadways-Happy-Now |archive-date=October 16, 2012 |access-date=June 9, 2010

Personal life

AuCoin is married to dancer Carolyn Hall, winner of a 2002 Bessie Award for creative work in dance performance. The couple resides in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite web |access-date=June 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719024629/http://www.danspaceproject.org/about/pressreleases/CompleteList.pdf |archive-date=July 19, 2011

Filmography

References

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