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