Michael Frank Park (born July 20, 1968) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Jack Snyder on ''

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'' (1997– 2010), Larry Murphy in the original Broadway cast of ''

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'' (2016), and reporter Tom Holloway in the third season of the Netflix series ''

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'' (2019). Park won back-to-back (

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) Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. In 2018, for his work in ''Dear Evan Hansen'', Park won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program.

Early life

Park was born in

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, but spent a year of his childhood in

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Career

Park attended Nazareth College,

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, originally intending to become an architect, before deciding to become an actor. He worked in the 1992 New Plays Festival at Geva Theatre in Rochester. He appeared in regional productions including ''Ellen Universe Joins The Band'' and ''Peephole''. In 1994, Park appeared in the musical '' Hello Again'' at

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. In August 1994, Park was in the

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production of '' Shenandoah'', and '' Good News'' at the North Shore Music Theatre (1994). After understudying Billy Bigelow in the 1994 revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''

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'', he made his Broadway debut in 1995 in '' Smokey Joe's Cafe''. In 1997, Park played Monty in the

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production of '' Violet''. The day after ''Violet'' opened was Park's first day in the long-running daytime

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'' as Jack Snyder, joining in April 1997. Park received three Emmy nominations and several other soap-opera acting awards, including winning the 2010 and 2011

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s for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. During his 13-year tenure in ''As the World Turns'', he continued to work in theatre, playing Lucky Malone in the

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's revival of '' Little Me'' (1998). He made two New York City Center

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appearances: ''

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'' in 2001 as Jeff Calhoun, and '' Applause'' in 2008 as Bill Sampson. With ''As the World Turns'' coming to an end in June 2010, Park returned to the stage, and played the role of Pete's ghost father who appeared to his son as three "Alamo" characters in the coming-of-age musical ''The Burnt Part Boys'' at Playwrights Horizon. In the summer of 2010, he appeared as Lord Capulet in the musical ''The Last Goodbye'' at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Park then appeared as the cop in

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's play ''Middletown'' at the off-Broadway

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(2010). Park performed in the role of Bert Bratt in the Broadway revival '' How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'' (2011), starring

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and

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. In the 2012 independent financial thriller film '' Supercapitalist'', Park appears as Morris Brown, co-starring along with

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. On December 5, 2013, he participated as a cast member of the

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telecast production of ''

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'' starring

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. He played Cecco, one of Captain Hook's pirates, in the NBC presentation of ''

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'' starring

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and

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; the musical was broadcast on December 4, 2014. Park has appeared in episodes of numerous television series, including ''

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'' (2012), ''

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'' (2016), ''

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'' (2018, two episodes), ''

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'' (2018), and ''

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'' (2021). In 2015, he originated the role of Larry Murphy in the world premiere of the stage musical ''

'' at Washington, DC's Arena Stage. He was not in the off-Broadway run, starting in early 2016, as he was appearing in the Broadway musical, ''

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''. He returned to ''Dear Evan Hansen'' in the fall of 2016 when the musical made its debut on Broadway. For his work in ''Dear Evan Hansen'', Michael Park earned the 2018

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for Best Musical Theater Album and his third

, this one a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program for his and the rest of the cast's ''

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'' performance that was broadcast on April 25, 2017. In 2022, Park played Philip Abshire in the

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series ''

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''.

Personal life

Park has been married to music therapist Laurie Nowak since January 6, 1996. They have three children.

Stage credits

References

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