Name	John Benjamin Hickey
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	25-June-1963
Place of Birth	Plano, Texas, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

John Benjamin Hickey is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart. On Broadway, he originated the role of Arthur in Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion! in 1995, a role he would recreate for the 1997 film version. He played Clifford Bradshaw in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, which won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, and played Reverend John Hale in the Tony-nominated 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Currently, he plays Sean, the homeless brother of Cathy (played by actress Laura Linney), the main character on the Showtime series The Big C.

On film, in addition to his role in Love! Valour! Compassion! Hickey played the lead in the 1998 independent film Finding North and played American novelist and playwright Jack Dunphy in the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous, along with supporting roles in a number of other films, including The Ice Storm and The Anniversary Party. Hickey's best-known television role is perhaps that of Philip Stoddard on the short-lived gay-themed ABC sitcom It's All Relative. Since It's All Relative, Hickey has made many other television appearances on shows like Alias, Law & Order, Brothers & Sisters, Stacked, Undercover History, Heartland, In Plain Sight, and most recently Law & Order: Los Angeles.

He appeared in Flightplan as David, Flags of Our Fathers as Keyes Beech, Freedom Writers as Brian Gelford, Helen Hunt 's directorial debut Then She Found Me as Alan, the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, as Deputy Mayor LaSalle, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sequel to the 2007 film, playing Theodore Galloway, a fictionalized anti-Transformer National Security Advisor. He was also in Ted Demme's The Bet and The Ref. He was also in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.