American actor Denis O’Hare was BOTD in 1962. Born in Kansas City, he moved to Chicago to study theatre at Northwestern University. His first major Broadway production was Sam Mendes’ celebrated revival of Cabaret. He won a Tony Award in 2003 for his performance as a gay accountant in baseball drama Take Me Out, and followed this with appearances in Broadway revivals of musicals Sweet Charity and Stephen Sondheim‘s Assassins. After supporting appearances in films and television, he scored major success in Alan Ball‘s TV series True Blood as Russell Edgington, the flamboyantly gay Vampire King of Mississippi. He also appeared in four seasons of the American Horror Story series, winning acclaim for playing a transgender bartender named Liz Taylor in the fifth season, Hotel. His film work includes portraying homophobic politician John Briggs in Milk, Gas Van Sant‘s biopic of gay politician Harvey Milk. He married long-term boyfriend Hugo Redwood in 2011, with whom he has an adopted son.