Alias: Victor Garber
Film, stage and television actor Victor Garber stars as Jack
Bristow in the ABC drama, Alias, a role that has earned him
Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama
Series.
One of Garber's most notable film roles is his charismatic
performance as the architect of the ill-fated ship in Titanic,
starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. In other features
he performed opposite Goldie Hawn in The First Wives Club,
Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle and Reese Witherspoon in
Legally Blonde.
Garber's numerous television credits include Richard Benjamin's
Laughter on the 23rd Floor; the ABC miniseries Life with Judy
Garland: Me and My Shadows, in which he was nominated for
an Emmy Award; Meredith Willson's The Music Man; the role
of Daddy Warbucks in ABC's musical version of Annie, with
Kathy Bates; Invisible Child, opposite Rita Wilson; External
Affairs; and the role of Inspector Philip Millard in the Criminal
Instinct Mysteries Love and Murder, Deadly Appearance, The
Wandering Soul Murders and A Colder Kind of Death, based on
the novels by Gail Bowen. He also performed in ABC's The Wonderful
World of Disney film Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella,
and Let Me Call You Sweetheart, opposite Meredith Baxter.
Garber received Gemini nominations for his performances in
the miniseries Dieppe and the TV movie First Circle. He received
an Emmy Award nomination for his guest appearance on Frasier.
Garber's stage performances are legendary. He has earned
four Tony nominations for his work in Damn Yankees, Lend Me
a Tenor, Deathtrap and Little Me. He performed in the workshop
of Sondheim's Wiseguys, with Nathan Lane, which was directed
by Sam Mendes, and with Alan Alda and Alfred Molina in the
Tony Award-winning play Art, which moved to Los Angeles following
its successful run at Broadway's Royale Theatre. His numerous
stage credits also include the original Broadway casts of
Arcadia, The Devil's Disciple, Noises Off and Sweeney Todd.
He recently starred in A Little Night Music at the Music Center
in Los Angeles.
Garber began acting at the age of 10 in children's productions
at the Grand Theatre in his hometown of London, Ontario, Canada.
At 16 he moved to Toronto, where he joined the singing group
The Sugar Shoppe, which were featured on the Ed Sullivan and
Johnny Carson shows. One of his first film roles was for director
George Bloomfield in CBC's Paradise Lost. Soon after, he landed
the role of the hippie-Messiah in the Toronto production of
Godspell, a role he would later reprise in the musical film
version.
Garber now makes his home in New York and in Los Angeles
while filming Alias.
Links and Articles
Movies
TV Shows/Mini-series
- I Had Three Wives (1985)
- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987)
- Queen (1993)
- LIBERTY! The American Revolution (1997)
- Alias (2001)
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