Biography of Anthony Rapp: films, music, memoirs

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An actor who is known to a wide range of people more because of the scandal with Kevin Spacey than because of his roles in films and musicals. What exactly is this mysterious man? Anthony Dean Rapp - musician, film and theater figure, writer. Born in a family of five, including parents, October 26 (Scorpio) 1971 in Chicago (Illinois, USA). From the age of two he was brought up by his mother, because his parents divorced. After the dissolution of the marriage, the family consisted of Anthony, his older brother, sister and their mother.

The start of the journey

The boy began his theater career at the age of six. At the age of 11, he was accepted into the cast of a Broadway musical, which failed even at the preview and later did not reach its audience. In school days, the boy often brought home awards for participation and victories in singing competitions. After graduating from high school, Anthony studied at a theater camp for several more years, and then entered the university. At the age of 29, Anthony releases his debut CD, Look Around, consisting of 12 songs.

Mother's death

When Anthony was 26 years old, he is experiencing the death of the closest person in his life - his mother Mary Lee passed away. The mother of three children was hardened in a family of 14 children, she was the eldest daughter. Mary did not feel the attention and love of her parents for herself, this allowed her to grow up as a strong and independent girl. After graduating from the university at the Department of Medicine, she worked according to her profession.

You can say that she was an altruist in life, because from the very childhood she helped her younger brothers and sisters, and then her work was connected with caring for other people. Mary promised to give her children whatever they needed. I tried to do as much as possible for them. In 1997, Mary's body was no longer able to fight cancer, and the woman died.

Memoirs

Three years after losing his mother, Anthony releases his first book, which he dedicates to her. To release his reflections in the form of a book, Anthony was prompted not only by the fact that at that time his brother was already a popular writer, but also by his mother's great interest in reading during her lifetime.

In the book, Anthony writes about his development as a man and an actor, thanks his mother for this, because she supported her son most of all throughout the journey and believed in him from the very beginning, no matter what. In Anthony's memoirs, you can also read that even with his death, his mother helped him grow up and understand life more.

After the release of the book in one of his interviewsAnthony addressed such a topic as the death of a loved one. He said that a person who has experienced the loss of a loved one must subsequently discover in himself the features of the deceased, especially if the deceased supported him during his lifetime.

Acting career

Anthony's film career debut was Adventures In Babysitting. At the age of 33, Rapp was looking for a suitable role for himself. The musical "La Boheme" seemed quite attractive to him. He signs up for auditions and passes an audition, for which Anthony Rapp prepared a short production with the song Losing My Religion. Then he learns that he was enrolled in a troupe of actors. It was this picture that brought him the greatest popularity and helped to significantly improve the level of acting skills, the number of impressions exceeded five thousand.

Anthony has appeared in TV series, films, musicals and television shows. His track record as an actor consists of 36 roles. Here are Anthony Rapp's films that have received the most response from viewers:

• Dazed in Confusion (1993).
• "Six Degrees of Alienation" (1993).
• "Smerch" (1996).
• Road Adventure (2001).
• A Beautiful Mind (2001).
• "Love and Other Circumstances" (2010).

Thanks to the popularity received, the actor was invited to shoot The X-Files, and after that there was Blackbird (2007), Connection (2012), Premiere (2016) and Star Trek: Discovery (2017).

The selection of roles for Anthony was based solely on reading the script. To himhe liked to play in films that were filled with an intellectual component and a meaning suitable for his worldview.

Private life

The actor has openly stated that he is bisexual. He first shared this with his mother at the age of 18. Used his fame as a tool to advocate for the rights of LGBT minorities.

October of last year was remembered by fans of Anthony Rapp for his public admissions of harassment by Weinstein. And also the actor spoke in one of his interviews about harassment by Kevin Spacey. Kevin invited a 14-year-old boy to a party he was hosting at his house. Rapp, of course, came, but at the celebration itself he got bored and went into the room to be alone and watch TV. According to Anthony Rapp, 26-year-old Spacey, who smelled of alcohol, entered the room and tried to molest the teenager. Anthony also went into detail and said that Spacey's plan could have reached an unpleasant ending for the boy if Kevin had not been so drunk.

Kevin Spacey did not hesitate to answer and apologized to Anthony on his Twitter account. However, along with this, he also stated that he did not remember such an incident in his life, at least with Anthony Rapp. On top of that, Anthony came out and told all his readers that he prefers homosexual relationships.

Rapp about his orientation

In 2012, Metro Weekly named Anthony Rapp as the first openly gay man on Broadway. Anthony himselfprefers to call himself just weird. Indeed, in his personal life, Anthony Rapp prefers men more. He is more homosexual than heterosexual. This is due to the fact that in his youth the guy was in love with several men. However, actor Anthony Rapp is not averse to relationships with girls. Perhaps his orientation was also influenced by harassment that occurred as early as adolescence, by men.