Brent Carver, an actor best known for winning a Tony award for his 1993 performance in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” died on Tuesday in Cranbrook, B.C., according to his family. He was 68…
The Canadian actor had a long career in theater, television and film, beginning in 1972 with a stage production of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.” In 1978, he acted opposite a 15-year-old Michael J. Fox in the sitcom “Leo and Me,” and had notable roles in movies such as “Crossbar” in 1979, “The Wars” and “Cross Country” in 1983, “Much Ado About Nothing” in 1987 and 1989’s “Millennium.
Carver made his U.S. theater debut in 1979 as Ariel in “The Tempest” alongside Anthony Hopkins, and spent much of the 1980s as a member of Canada’scompany. There, he played Edmund Tyrone in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in 1980, the Pirate King in “The Pirates of Penzance” in 1985, Hamlet in both “Hamlet” and “Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” in 1986 and the Master of Ceremonies in a 1987 production of “Cabaret,” to name a few.
In 1993, Carver starred on Broadway alongside Chita Rivera in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” which won him a Tony award for best actor in a musical. He was nominated once again in 1999 for his role in “Parade.
“Everyone in Stratford is devastated by this tragic news,” Stratford Festival artistic director Antoni Cimolino said in a statement. “He was the best of us and represented the best in us. He was singular: an original in every sense. And yet his heart was so big it encompassed us all and made us one. Our thoughts are with his family and all who loved him.”
Carver is survived by his siblings Vicki Stanley, Frankie Reekie, Randy Carver and Shawn Carver, along with many nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
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