# Boyd Gaines

Boyd Payne Gaines (born May 11, 1953) is an American actor. During his career, he has won four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. Gaines is best known for playing Mark Royer on One Day at a Time (1981–1984).

## Early life and education

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to James and Ida Gaines. His early theatre training began at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, where his talent and rich baritone voice were showcased in leading roles in plays, musicals, and opera. He attended the Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Division's Group 8 (1975–1979).

## Career

Gaines has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Fame, Frasier, L.A. Law, Law & Order, and Piece of Cake, but his most notable television role was as Mark Royer, who married Valerie Bertinelli's Barbara Cooper on TV's One Day at a Time. Gaines appeared in the final three seasons of the show. He also portrayed Coach Brackett in the 1981 movie Porky's, Lt. Ring in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge and Jason in The Sure Thing (1985).
Gaines is a voice actor, and is credited with recording several audiobooks.
He has appeared on the Broadway stage, in both musicals and plays, for which he has won four Tony Awards. His first Broadway play was The Heidi Chronicles in 1989. He has appeared in the musicals She Loves Me (1993), Company (1995), and Contact (2000). Other plays have included the 2010 revival of Driving Miss Daisy, The Columnist (2012), and the Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People in 2012. He appeared in the 2008 revival of Gypsy as Herbie, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
He has appeared Off-Broadway, starting in 1978 with Spring Awakening and recently The Grand Manner by A. R. Gurney at Lincoln Center in 2010.
In regional theatre, Gaines appeared in Our Town at the George Street Playhouse, New Jersey, in April 2014.

## Awards and nominations

Gaines was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play in 2007, for Journey's End, making him the first actor to be nominated in each of the four Tony categories for which an actor is eligible. Only two male and three female performers have been nominated for all four Tony performance awards, the others being Raúl Esparza, Angela Lansbury, Jan Maxwell, and Audra McDonald. Gaines was the first performer to be nominated for each of Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1989 for The Heidi Chronicles, Best Actor in a Musical in 1994 for She Loves Me, Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2000 for Contact and again in 2008 for Gypsy, and Best Actor in a Play in 2007 for Journey's End. Gaines won in three of the categories (and four of the five nominations), missing only for the performance in Journey's End. His four wins are for The Heidi Chronicles, She Loves Me, Contact, and Gypsy.

## Personal life

He is married to Kathleen McNenny. They have one daughter.

## Filmography

Film and television :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980 | Fame | Michael | Feature film |
| 1981 | Porky's | Coach Roy Brackett | Feature film |
| 1981–84 | One Day at a Time | Mark Royer | Main cast (52 episodes) |
| 1984 | Hotel | Jeff Strider | Episode: "Wedding" |
| 1985 | Evergreen | Chris Bradford | TV miniseries |
| 1985 | The Sure Thing | Jason | Feature film |
| 1985 | MacGruder and Loud | Ellis | Episode: "Tarnished Blues" |
| 1985 | Remington Steele | Todd Myerson | Episode: "Grappling Steele" |
| 1985 | Hotel | Steven Parker | Episode: "Hearts and Minds" |
| 1986 | Heartbreak Ridge | Lieutenant M.R. Ring | Feature film |
| 1986 | L.A. Law | Jim Perkins | Recurring role (4 episodes) |
| 1986 | Hotel | Rodger Gage | Episode: "Undercurrents" |
| 1987 | Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall | Sam Logan | Short film |
| 1988 | Spenser: For Hire | Alfie Gainer | Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet" |
| 1988 | American Playhouse | Reverend Dobson | Episode: "Pigeon Feathers" |
| 1988 | Piece of Cake | Pilot Officer Chris Hart | TV miniseries |
| 1988 | Call Me | Bill | Feature film |
| 1989 | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Imposter | Episode: "Here's a Rough Way to Learn a Foreign Language" |
| 1990 | A Son's Promise | Dan Weston | TV movie |
| 1991 | A Woman Named Jackie | Yusha Auchincloss | TV miniseries |
| 1992 | Anything but Love | College Professor | Episode: "Catherine Honey, I'm Home" |
| 1992 | Murder, She Wrote | John Halsey | Episode: "Programmed for Murder" |
| 1993 | Law & Order | Lieutenant St. Claire | Episode: "Conduct Unbecoming" |
| 1994 | Frasier | Phil Patterson | Episode: "The Candidate" |
| 1995 | The Grass Harp | Narrator (voice) | Feature film |
| 1995 | Law & Order | Nathan Barclay | Episode: "Wannabe" |
| 1996 | I'm Not Rappaport | Peter Danforth | Feature film |
| 1997 | Law & Order | Oliver Shain | Episode: "Matrimony" |
| 1997 | Caroline in the City | Jerry | Episode: "Caroline and the Wayward Husband" |
| 1997 | Remember WENN | Congressman Bob Farraday | Episode: "A Girl Like Maple" |
| 1999 | The Confession | Liam Clarke | Feature film |
| 1999 | Earthly Possessions | Announcer | TV movie |
| 2001–02 | The Education of Max Bickford | Paul Finazzio | 2 episodes |
| 2001–02 | 100 Centre Street | Casper Quince | 2 episodes |
| 2003 | Queens Supreme | Steve Simon / Stan Standowski | Episode: "Flawed Heroes" |
| 2004 | Second Best | Richard | Feature film |
| 2004 | Law & Order | James Rillard | Episode: "Coming Down Hard" |
| 2006 | Angela's Eyes | Colin Anderson | Main cast (6 episodes) |
| 2007 | Lovely by Surprise | Customer #1 | Feature film |
| 2007 | Funny Games | Fred | Feature film |
| 2009 | American Experience | Voice of Chairman Gray | Episode: "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer" |
| 2009 | The Good Wife | Richard Chatham | Episode: "Home" |
| 2010 | The Robber Barons of Wall Street | Rupert Baron | Short film |
| 2014 | Driving Miss Daisy | Boolie Werthan | Theatrical release of Australian stage production |
| 2015 | American Odyssey | Harrison's Father | Episode: "Drop King" |
| 2015 | Great Performances | Boolie Werthan | Episode: "Driving Miss Daisy" |
| 2016 | No Pay, Nudity | Stephan | Feature film |
| 2018 | The Independents | Professor Green | Feature film |
| 2018 | Roses Are Blind | Uncle Oscar | Short film |
| 2019 | The Goldfinch | Chance Barbour | Feature film |
| 2021 | The Bite | Boyd Leithauser | 2 episodes |

## Stage productions

Broadway and Off-Broadway :
| Year | Title | Role | Theatre venue |
| July 7, 1978 – Jul 30, 1978 | Spring Awakening | Melchior Gabor | Off-Broadway: Joseph Papp Public Theater |
| Dec 11, 1979 – Apr 5, 1980 | A Month in the Country | Aleksei Belyayev | Off-Broadway: Roundabout Stage 1 |
| Oct 21, 1980 – Nov 30, 1980 | Vikings | Gunnar Larsen | Off-Broadway: Stage 73 |
| Feb 19, 1987 – Mar 1, 1987 | The Maderati | Chuck deButts | Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons |
| Nov 18, 1988 – Feb 19, 1989 | The Heidi Chronicles | Peter Patrone | Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons |
| Mar 1, 1989 – Sep 3, 1989 | The Heidi Chronicles | Peter Patrone | Broadway: Plymouth Theatre |
| Apr 28, 1992 – Jun 21, 1992 | The Extra Man | Keith | Off-Broadway: New York City Center-Stage 1 |
| Aug 6, 1992 – Aug 30, 1992 | The Comedy of Errors | Antipholus of Ephesus | Off-Broadway: Delacorte Theater |
| Oct 14, 1992 – Dec 13, 1992 | The Show-Off | Aubrey Piper | Broadway: Criterion Center Stage Right |
| Oct 7, 1993 – Jun 19, 1994 | She Loves Me | Georg Nowack | Broadway: Brooks Atkinson Theatre |
| Oct 5, 1995 – Dec 3, 1995 | Company | Robert | Broadway: Criterion Center Stage Right |
| Jun 11, 1996 – Jul 7, 1996 | The Shawl | Garner Globalis | Off-Broadway: Playhouse 91 Theater |
| Nov 15, 1997 – Jan 4, 1998 | Major Barbara | Cusins | Off-Broadway: Irish Repertory Theatre |
| Mar 2, 1999 – Jul 27, 1999 | Cabaret | Clifford Bradshaw | Broadway: Studio 54 |
| Oct 7, 1999 – Jan 2, 2000 | Contact | Michael Wiley | Off-Broadway: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater |
| Mar 2, 2000 – Sep 2, 2001 | Contact | Michael Wiley | Broadway: Vivian Beaumont Theater |
| Oct 1, 2004 – May 15, 2005 | Twelve Angry Men | Juror #8 | Broadway: American Airlines Theatre |
| Nov 14, 2005 – Dec 18, 2005 | Bach at Leipzig | Johann Friedrich Fasch | Off-Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop |
| Feb 8, 2007 – Jun 10, 2007 | Journey's End | Lieutenant Osborne | Broadway: Belasco Theatre |
| Sep 21, 2007 – Dec 16, 2007 | Pygmalion | Colonel Pickering | Broadway: American Airlines Theatre |
| Mar 3, 2008 – Jan 11, 2009 | Gypsy | Herbie | Broadway: St. James Theatre |
| Jun 1, 2010 – Aug 1, 2010 | The Grand Manner | Guthrie McClintic | Off-Broadway: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater |
| Oct 7, 2010 – Apr 9, 2011 | Driving Miss Daisy | Boolie Werthan | Broadway: John Golden Theatre |
| Apr 4, 2012 – Jul 8, 2012 | The Columnist | Stewart Alsop | Broadway: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre |
| Sep 4, 2012 – Nov 18, 2012 | An Enemy of the People | Dr. Thomas Stockmann | Broadway: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre |