Patrick Heusinger is an American

United States

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 actor who made his debut in the 2006 film

2006 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

 Sweet Land

Sweet Land

Sweet Land is a 2005 American independent period drama film written and directed by Ali Selim. It is an adaptation of the 1989 short story "A Gravestone Made of Wheat" by Will Weaver...

 as Young Lars and then appeared in Tie a Yellow Ribbon

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

Tie a Yellow Ribbon is a 2007 award winning film by Korean-American director and writer, Joy Dietrich.It portrays the complex emotions for young adult Asian American women through its main character, Jenny, as a Korean adoptee in America struggling thorough life and difficult relationships...

, The Nanny Diaries

The Nanny Diaries

The Nanny Diaries is a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, both of whom are former nannies. The book satirizes upper class Manhattan society as seen through the eyes of their children's caregivers....

, and Black Swan

Black Swan

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". Heusinger is best-known for his roles as "Lord Marcus" on the CW's hit drama Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite...

 and "Adam" on USA Network's "Royal Pains

Royal Pains

Royal Pains is a USA Network television series that premiered on June 4, 2009, starring Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Flint and Reshma Shetty. The series is based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies...

". Other television credits include 30 Rock

30 Rock

30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC. The series is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live...

, The Good Wife, Law and Order: SVU, Rescue Me

Rescue Me (TV series)

Rescue Me is an American television drama series that premiered on the FX Network on July 21, 2004, and concluded on September 7, 2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters in the fictitious Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse.The show...

, "Unforgettable

Unforgettable

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" and "Necessary Roughness (TV series)lNecessary Roughness". Heusinger also recently completed filming the new untitled Noah Baumbach film.

In 2010, Heusinger starred in the Naked Angels' Tony-nominated Broadway production of Next Fall

Next Fall (play)

Next Fall is a play written by Geoffrey Nauffts. The play is about two gay men in a committed relationship with a twist, with one being devoutly religious and the other an atheist. The play revolves around their five-year relationship and how they make it work despite their differences...

. He starred as Lancelot in the national tour of Spamalot

Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre...

 from 2006 through 2008. Other theater credits include Next Fall (off-Broadway), Fyedka in Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

 (Broadway revival).

Heusinger grew up in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

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, where he attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts

Douglas Anderson School of the Arts

Douglas Anderson School of the Arts is a magnet high school in the San Marco neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. The school opened in the 1922 as a primary school specifically for African American students. The school is named after local civil rights activist, Douglas Anderson...

. He is a graduate of Juilliard.

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