# Frank Wood (actor)

Frank Wood (born May 6, 1960) is an American actor who has appeared in various television, film, and theatre roles.

## Early life and education

Wood is the son of Margaret (Byers) and Robert Coldwell Wood, a political scientist who briefly served as United States secretary of housing and urban development in the Lyndon Johnson administration. His sister is U.S. senator and former governor of New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan. Wood attended the Buxton School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1984 and a MFA from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

## Career

Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Side Man. He played Bill in August: Osage County on Broadway. From September 14, 2010, to March 27, 2011, Wood starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America staged by the Signature Theatre Company in Manhattan. Wood played Gary Lucas in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2016, Wood played the Night Clerk in Eugene O'Neill's play Hughie opposite Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in New York City, directed by Michael Grandage.
Wood is on the faculty of HB Studio in New York City.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2000 | Down to You | Doctor | |
| 2000 | Small Time Crooks | Oliver | |
| 2000 | Pollock | Frank Pollock | |
| 2000 | Thirteen Days | McGeorge Bundy | |
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Hotel Manager | |
| 2002 | In America | Paediatrician | |
| 2002 | People I Know | Michael Wormly | |
| 2004 | Winter Solstice | Bill Brennan | |
| 2004 | King of the Corner | Anthony Berenson | |
| 2004 | Keane | Assaulted Commuter | |
| 2004 | The Undeserved | Alex Montgomery | |
| 2007 | Flakes | Bruce | |
| 2007 | The Favor | Lawrence | |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Gerald | |
| 2007 | Dan in Real Life | Howard | |
| 2008 | Lucky Days | Dr. Ginger | |
| 2008 | Changeling | Ben Harris | |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Evaluative Services Doctor | |
| 2009 | The Missing Person | Harold Fullmer | |
| 2009 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Police Commissioner Sterman | |
| 2012 | Greetings from Tim Buckley | Gary Lucas | |
| 2014 | St. Vincent | Maggie's Attorney | |
| 2016 | The Phenom | Richard Boyer | |
| 2016 | Custody | Uncle Frank | |
| 2016 | Gold | Scottie Nevins | |
| 2017 | Detroit | Robert Edward DeMascio | |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Simul-Translate Machine | Voice |
| 2019 | Joker | Dr. Benjamin Stoner | |
| 2020 | Lapsis | John | |
| 2022 | She Said | Matt Purdy | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | Law & Order | Dr. Rutland | Episode: "Scrambled" |
| 2001 | The Sopranos | Dean Ross | Episode: "Second Opinion" |
| 2001 | Third Watch | Third Watch | Episode: "Honor" |
| 2002 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | George Weems | Episode: "Chinoiserie" |
| 2004 | Medium | Crazed Man | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2007–2009 | Flight of the Conchords | Greg | 17 episodes |
| 2010 | Bored to Death | Dr. O'Connor | Episode: "Escape from the Castle!" |
| 2011 | Lights Out | Dr. Stuart Wexler | Episode: "The Comeback" |
| 2012 | Modern Family | Reporter | Episode: "Election Day" |
| 2012 | Grey's Anatomy | Frank Wheeler | Episode: "The Girl With No Name" |
| 2012 | The Good Wife | Dr. Joseph Lidera | Episode: "And the Law Won" |
| 2012–2021 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dr. Truman / Andrew Lennox | 4 episodes |
| 2013 | Elementary | EROC Supervisor | Episode: "Snow Angels" |
| 2013 | The Newsroom | Shep Pressman | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Blue Bloods | Father Markhum | Episode: "Lost and Found" |
| 2014 | The Divide | Griffen Donleavey | Episode: "I'm for Justice" |
| 2014–2015 | The Knick | Mr. Havershorn | 10 episodes |
| 2016 | Younger | Dr. Kigner | Episode: "Un-Jaded" |
| 2016 | Girls | Charlie's Client | Episode: "The Panic in Central Park" |
| 2016 | The Night Of | Medical Examiner | 4 episodes |
| 2016–2017 | The Get Down | Ed Koch | 6 episodes |
| 2018 | Mozart in the Jungle | Keith Rutledge | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | The Blacklist | Gerald Klepper | Episode: "The Ethicist (No. 91)" |
| 2019 | Prodigal Son | Dr. Carl Mitchell | Episode: "Fear Response" |
| 2021 | Bull | Dr. Edwin Pruitt | Episode: "Cloak and Beaker" |
| 2021 | Evil | Brother Jacob | Episode: "S Is for Silence" |
| 2023 | The Crowded Room | Dean Martin Hughs | 2 episodes |