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Biography #2 (for Kingdom Hospital)

Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and educated at Duke University, Jack Coleman is the sixth generation grandson of Benjamin Franklin. As an actor he has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in feature film and on television.

Perhaps best-known for his role as Steven Carrington in the long-running television series, Dynasty, Coleman has played a series regular role on Lifetime's Oh Baby, NBC's Nightmare Café and numerous other pilots. He has also starred in such made-for-television movies as Replacing Dad, with Mary McDonnell; Last Rites, with Randy Quaid and Embeth Davidtz; Medusa's Child, with Chris Noth and Gail O'Grady, and Angels in the Endzone, with Christopher Lloyd, among many other projects.

On stage Coleman has performed Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost and Othello in rep at the Globe Theater in Texas; as Danny Zuko in Grease at the Northstage Theater on Long Island; and the title character in David Mamet's Bobby Gould in Hell, with Jim Belushi, at the Howard Fine Theater in Hollywood. He won an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance in Bouncers at the Tiffany Theater, and was nominated for his performance in Stand-Up Tragedy at the Mark Taper Forum for a role he created. He later reprised the role in productions at the Hartford Stage Company, the Marines Memorials in San Francisco and, finally, on Broadway at The Criterion Center.

Coleman has recently written, produced and starred in a short film/pilot entitled Studio City, with Tess Harper and Carlos Gomex, directed by Tom Verica (American Dreams).

Bio courtesy ABC for "Kingdom Hospital" (18-Jul-2004)