Ned Beatty
("Mr. Gigot")

Ned Beatty is equally accomplished in film, stage and television. His more than 60 feature film credits include Deliverance; Silver Streak; W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings; Network, for which he received an Academy Award® nomination; Nashville; Superman I and II; The Toy; All the President's Men; Wise Blood; Hopscotch; Back to School; Restless Native; The Big Easy; The Passage; Switching Channels; Midnight Crossing; Big Bad John; Chattahoochee; Time Trackers; Physical Evidence; Hear My Song, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination; Prelude to a Kiss; Ed and His Dead Mother; O.B. Taggert; Just Cause; The Curse of the Inferno; He Got Game; Life and Cookies Fortune. Beatty's numerous television credits include, starring for three years on the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street and the miniseries Gulliver's Travels. His other miniseries include The Streets of Laredo, The Boys, Trial and The Last Days of Pompeii. Beatty received Emmy nominations for his performances in the telefilms Friendly Fire and Last Train Home. In addition, he appeared in the telefilms The Execution of Private Slovick, A Woman Called Golda, Pray TV, Celebrity, Robert Kennedy and His Times, Lockerbie and T-Bone and Mr. Weasel for TNT. He guest-starred in a recurring role on Roseanne and performed on Dolly Parton's and The Smothers Brothers' television specials. Beatty also starred in two plays adapted for television: Our Town and All The Way Home.

Beatty has worked as a professional performer since age 10, when he earned spending change by singing in a barber shop and gospel quartets. His first acting job was in Wilderness Road, an outdoor historical pageant staged in Berea, Ky. Subsequently, he worked at the Erie Playhouse in Erie, Pa.; the Playhouse Theater in Houston, Texas; and the prestigious Arena Stage Company in Washington, D.C. He performed in summer theater productions with Shakespeare in Central Park, New York. During his term at the Arena Stage Company, Beatty took a sabbatical to appear in the Broadway production of The Great White Hope. At the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, he starred in The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, which won him rave reviews. He then had the opportunity to do the one thing he has always dreamed of: star in a Broadway musical. Beatty starred as Captain Andy in the Livenet Inc. production of Jerome Kern's Showboat in Canada and Los Angeles, for which he received an Ovation Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. He most recently starred as Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in London's West End, where he was nominated in the Best Actor category for the prestigious Olivier Award, and on Broadway, where he was nominated in the Lead Actor category for a Tony Award.



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