Roger Bart

Biography

Roger Bart (born September 29, 1962, in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American actor and singer, 5′ 8½″ (174 cm) tall, who grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, and earned a BFA in Acting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1985. His uncle is journalist Peter Bart. He made his Broadway debut as Tom Sawyer in Big River (1987), earned a Tony nomination as Carmen Ghia in The Producers (1991), and won both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for Snoopy in the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is the singing voice of Young Hercules in Disney's Hercules (1997) and Scamp in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001), and has two daughters, Ali Kendall and Eller Bart. His most notable film credits include Roger Bannister in The Stepford Wives (2004, with Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler), Carmen Ghia in The Producers (2005, with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane), Stuart in Hostel: Part II (2007), US Attorney in American Gangster (2007, with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe), Dr. Beecher in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008, with John Cho and Kal Penn), Jurgis in The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Brian Bringham in Law Abiding Citizen (2009, with Gerard Butler), Maurice in Last Vegas (2013, with Robert De Niro and Morgan Freeman), Buddy Ross in Trumbo (2015, with Bryan Cranston), and Henry Asquith in Ghost Light (2018). On television he is best known as George Williams in Desperate Housewives (2004, for which he won a SAG Award), Howard "The Weasel" Montague in The Lost Room (2006, 3 episodes), Mason Treadwell in Revenge (2011, 2015), Vice Principal Nero in A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017, 2019, Netflix), and Judge Wilson in Good Trouble (2019, 2021, Freeform), with additional credits in How I Met Your Mother (2005, 5 episodes), 30 Rock (2006), The Blacklist (2013, 2021), Elementary (2012), Quantico (2015), Scream Queens (2015), Graves (2016, 11 episodes), and There's Johnny! (2017)