American actor and singer

Denis O'Hare

Denis Patrick Seamus O'Hare is an American actor noted for his award-winning performances in the plays Take Me Out and Sweet Charity, as well as portraying vampire king Russell Edgington on the HBO fantasy series True Blood. He is also known for his supporting roles in such films as Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Milk (2008), Changeling (2008), and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). In 2011, he starred as Larry Harvey in the first season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie in 2012. He returned to the show in 2013, playing Spalding in American Horror Story: Coven and once more as Stanley in American Horror Story: Freak Show, the latter for which he earned a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Born

1962

January 17

Died

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1960s

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1962 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-38 Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
1362 Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
1377 Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.

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The world in 1962

When Denis arrived

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Alain Badiou 1937– French philosopher and academic Calvin Harris 1984– Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer Clyde Walcott 1926–2006 Barbadian cricketer and coach (born 1926) Davíð Oddsson 1948– Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland (died 2026) Derrick Mason 1974– American football player Dwyane Wade 1982– American basketball player Gyude Bryant 1949–2014 Liberian businessman and politician (born 1949) Kang Chan-hee 2000– South Korean singer and actor Naveen Andrews 1969– English actor

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1962

Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Flea 1962– Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

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