Lee Wilkof

Known for Acting

6/25/1951(Age 74)

Canton, Ohio, U.S.

Biography

Lee Wilkof, born in Canton, Ohio, has acted in films, TV, Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater since 1975.

Known For (68 credits)

9.0

Movie

The Metropolitan Opera: Champion

2023

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, also reuniting the director-and-choreographer team of James Robinson and Camille A. Brown.

4.0

Movie

Prepartum

2022

Expecting parents learn about a new prenatal test from their private practice doctor.

4.5

Movie

Carnivore

2018

An irreverent financial thriller where the thrill is in the company you eat.

Movie

Tooth and Nail

2018

A dysfunctional family reunites after the son, Matt, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Matt and his sister Kate make a pact. He agrees to give her his sperm for future use with a partner if she agrees to come out to the family that night.

5.7

Movie

Anesthesia

2016

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

3.0

Movie

What Cheer?

2014

After the sudden passing of his wife, Stan ignores his overwhelming grief only to be faced with an unavoidable 20-piece punk marching band that floods his world with boisterous, interminable song.

7.1

Alpha House

2013

Four Republican senators share the same D.C. house rental, and face re-election battles, looming indictments, and parties -- all with a sense of humor.

3.8

Movie

The Key Man

2011

An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.

4.6

Movie

YellowBrickRoad

2010

In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.

5.4

Movie

Afterschool

2009

A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

6.0

Movie

Leaves of Grass

2009

An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.

3.6

Movie

Asylum Seekers

2009

Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.