LARRY CEDAR BIO

Larry Cedar is an accomplished film, television, stage, and voiceover artist who will soon be seen in Breck Eisner's remake of George Romero's The Crazies (opens Feb, 2010) and recently recurred for three seasons as "Leon", the opium-addicted card dealer and thief, in HBO's hit series, Deadwood. Other recent feature film work includes appearances opposite Nicolas Cage in National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, with Adrien Brody in the Ben Affleck/George Reeves biopic, Hollywoodland, and Alan Ball's (Six Feet Under) feature debut, Towelhead, starring Aaron Eckhart and Toni Collette.  Recent television guest-star appearances include House M.D., Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Riches, Alias, Without A Trace, Boston Legal, The Closer and The Shield. 

After gaining admittance to Hastings Law School, Larry decided instead to enter the MFA Theater program at UCLA. There he won the Hugh O'Brian Acting Award for Best Actor and as a result was signed to a one year artist development contract with Universal Studios where he filmed his first television pilot. He went on to star in various projects for Walt Disney Studios as well as numerous episodics and feature films, including a starring role opposite Rebecca De Mornay in the Ivan Reitman produced,  Feds, as well as an unforgettable appearance opposite John Lithgow as The Creature on the Wing in Steven Spielberg's, Twilight Zone: The Movie, directed by George Miller. Larry later spent six years in New York starring in the award winning PBS series Square One TV and later starred in 40 episodes of the Fox television series A.J.'s Time Travelers.

An excellent singer with numerous Equity stage credits, the best known being his successful run in the one man biographical play, "Billy Bishop Goes to War" (see rave reviews and Backstage interview) , Larry has won the Los Angeles Theater Alliance Ovation Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical award for his performance as Sipos in "She Loves Me".  Other stage work includes  Hoagy, Bix, and Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus at the Mark Taper Forum (as Hoagy Carmichael), They're Playing Our Song (opposite Lea Thompson), and 1776: The Musical opposite Roger Rees.  Larry excels in the field of voiceovers, and in addition to lending his numerous vocal characterizations to thousands of commercials, cartoon series, and video games, he specializes in the art of "speed talking". An avid reader and monologist, he is currently researching a one-man show based upon the works of one of his favorite authors, George Orwell. 

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