Foxworth Named Old Globe Associate Artist

Executive Producer Lou Spisto is thrilled to announce the addition of Robert Foxworth to the exclusive list of Old Globe Associate Artists.  Foxworth is the 52nd artist named to the illustrious group that includes Paxton Whitehead, Marion Ross, A.R. Gurney and Richard Easton.

Mr. Foxworth has appeared in The Old Globe’s productions of: Antony and Cleopatra (1987), Love Letters, Private Lives, Below the Belt, Julius Caesar (2003), and most recently as “George Wallace” in the world premiere of Cornelia.

He was seen this year on Broadway in the Tony Award®-winning production of August: Osage County. He starred as “Claudius” in Hamlet at South Coast Repertory, directed by Daniel Sullivan, and on Broadway in the award-winning production of Twelve Angry Men for Roundabout Theatre Company. In 2003 he was “Brutus” in Daniel Sullivan’s Julius Caesar at The Old Globe. He played “Robert” in the national tour of Proof. Mr. Foxworth made his Broadway debut in The American Shakespeare Festival’s production of Henry V. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of “John Proctor” in The Crucible at Lincoln Center. His stage work was interrupted for a period of time as he starred in several television series including Storefront Lawyers, Falcon Crest and Late Line with Al Franken. He has guest-starred on countless series episodes and MOWs over the years. The most recent being a two-year stint on Six Feet Under and episodes of Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and The Gilmore Girls. His stage work has included Cyrano at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, “Iago” and “Macbeth” at the Guthrie, “George” in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Hartford Stage, Brecht’s Galileo at Center Stage in Baltimore and Uncle Vanya at the Geffen. On Broadway he was “Count Shebyelski” in Ivanov at Lincoln Center, starred with Jane Alexander in Honour at the Belasco, and played prosecuting attorney “Colonel Parker” in Judgement at Nuremberg at the Longacre. Mr. Foxworth was seen in Syriana and is the voice of “Rachet” in Transformers I and?II. He and his wife Stacey have recently made their home in Encinitas.

The world premiere of Cornelia, by Mark Victor Olsen (Big Love), directed by Ethan McSweeny (In This Corner), just completed a run in the Old Globe Theatre. Melinda Page Hamilton, who played “Cornelia,” was in the Globe’s critically-acclaimed productions of Bell, Book and Candle and All My Sons. Robert Foxworth is a television veteran, but is perhaps best known for his role as “Bernard Chenowith” on HBO’s Six Feet Under. Beth Grant, Sordid Lives own “Sissy Hickey,” as “Big Ruby Folsom,” former First Lady of Alabama and mother of Cornelia, George Wallace’s second wife.

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