LARRY CEDAR BIO

Larry Cedar is an accomplished film, television, stage, and voiceover artist who, for the past three years recurred as "Leon", the opium-addicted card dealer and thief, in HBO's hit series, "Deadwood" opposite Powers Boothe and Ian McShane. Recent feature film work includes appearences opposite Nicolas Cage in "National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets , with Adrien Brody ("The Piano", "King Kong") in the Ben Affleck/George Reeves biopic, "Hollywoodland" and the upcoming Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) summer drama "Towelhead", starring Aaron Eckhart and Toni Collette.  Recent television guest-star appearances include "The Riches" opposite Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver, "Alias", "Without A Trace", "Boston Legal", "The Closer" and "The Shield".  Admitted to Hastings Law School after earning his BA in Communication Studies, the course of his Larry's was dramatically altered when he decided to audition for and was accepted into 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 subsequently filmed his first television pilot. He went on to star in various projects for Walt Disney Studios, 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 the Steven Spielberg thriller, "Twilight Zone: The Movie", directed by George Miller. Larry 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", produced by Gianni Russo. An excellent singer with numerous Equity stage credits, he recently completed a successful run in the one man biographical play, "Billy Bishop Goes to War" (see rave reviews and BackStage Magazine featured interview) and has won the Los Angeles Theater Alliance "Ovation" Best Featured Actor in a Musical award for his performance as Sipos in "She Loves Me".  Other onstage work includes playing Hoagy Carmichael in "Hoagy, Bix, and Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, starring as Vernon opposite Lea Thompson in "They're Playing Our Song", and as Secretary Thompson  in "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 developing a one-man show based upon the works of one of his favorite authors, George Orwell. 

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