K. Todd Freeman

K. Todd Freeman

Birthdate
July 9, 1965 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Houston, Texas, USA
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
July 9, 1965 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Houston, Texas, USA
Known For
Acting

Biography

Kenneth Todd Freeman (born July 9, 1965) is an American actor. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards over the course of his career and has won one Drama Desk Award. He has played supporting roles in films such as Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and The Cider House Rules (1999), played a prominent recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–1999), and was a series regular on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).

Born in Houston, Texas, Freeman went to the local High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before later graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1987.

Freeman has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1993. In the same year, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his lead performance in the Apartheid drama The Song of Jacob Zulu. More recently, Freeman has played the role of Doctor Dillamond from Wicked in the first North American tour, Chicago and Broadway productions. In 2015, he was nominated for his second Tony Award, this time for Best Featured Actor in a Play as Sissy Na Na in Airline Highway. He won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for the same role.

He has also had supporting roles in various films such as Eraser (1996), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Cider House Rules (1999), and The Dark Knight (2008). On television, he earned a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr. Trick.

He performed in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Downstate, which concluded its run on November 18, 2018.

He portrayed Mr. Poe in the 2017 Netflix comedy drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events.

K. Todd Freeman's LGBTQ+ Titles

Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Barney's Waiter

Acting (34)

2025
The Auction
2023
The Horror of Dolores Roach as Jeremiah (8 episodes)
2022
The Same Storm as Leon Robinson
2022
The Rehearsal as Fake Kor (1 episode)
2021
Naked Singularity as Jimmy Coates
2020
FBI: Most Wanted as Linwood Williams (1 episode)
2018
God Friended Me as Bishop Thompson (2 episodes)
2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Captain Morgan
2017
A Series of Unfortunate Events as Arthur Poe (25 episodes)
2016
The OA as Masters (1 episode)
2016
High Maintenance as Bill (1 episode)
2016
WINNERS as Coach
2016
Anesthesia as Joe
2015
Blindspot as Marcus White (1 episode)
2014
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Dr. Baxter Stockman
2013
The Blacklist as Hobbs (1 episode)
2012
Elementary as Rafael (1 episode)
2008
The Dark Knight as Polk
2002
A Gentleman's Game as Jeffrey
1999
The Cider House Rules as Muddy
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Mr. Reynolds (1 episode)
1998
There's No Fish Food in Heaven as Stan / Suzie
1997
The End of Violence as Six
1997
Grosse Pointe Blank as Kenneth McCullers
1997
Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Mr. Trick (5 episodes)
1996
Dangerous Minds as Jerome Griffin (17 episodes)
1996
House Arrest as Officer Davis
1996
Eraser as Duton
1995
Jeffrey as Barney's Waiter
1994
Touched by an Angel as Vinegar (1 episode)
1991
Grand Canyon as Wipe
1991
The Killing Mind as Fred Robinson
1990
Street Hunter as Pretzel
1987
A Different World as Novian Winters (1 episode)