Star File
David Patrick Kelly
David Patrick Kelly has appeared in films by Walter Hill, David Lynch, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders and Clint Eastwood. On stage he has appeared in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Gogol, Euripides, Buchner, Pirandello, Moliere, Brecht and Ibsen, directed by Richard Foreman, Nicholas Hytner and Karin Coonrod, Lear Debessonet, Rachel Chavkin, Daniel Fish and Sam Gold. He was awarded an Obie for Sustained Excellence and was featured/played mandolin in the Grammy and Tony-winning Once.
(David Patrick Kelly, photo courtesy of Polk & Co.)
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