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David Hyde Pierce studied acting at Yale College with Bart Teusch, Austin Pendleton, Lynne Meadow, and Nikos Psacharapoulus and worked for two seasons at Psacharapoulus' Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. After graduating in 1981, Pierce moved to New York and made his professional and Broadway debut in 1982 as the waiter in Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy.
He went on to create roles in the off-Broadway productions of Mark O'Donnell's That's it Folks!, Richard Greenberg's The Author's Voice and Maderati, Harry Kondoleon's Zero Positive, and Jules Feiffer's Elliot Loves, before returning to Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles.
In addition to his work in new plays, Pierce also appeared in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, Holiday and Camille at Chicago, The Seagull, Tartuffe, Cyrano and A Midsummer's Night's Dream at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard in New York, Moscow, Leningrad and Tokyo.
In 1991, Pierce came to Los Angeles, where he appeared in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play at the Doolittle Theatre and in the Reprise production of The Boys from Syracuse, directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman. Pierce teamed with Seidelman once again in the Geffen Playhouse presentation of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks with Uta Hagen.
Pierce's film credits include Bright Lights, Big City, Crossing Delancy, Little Man Tate, Sleepless in Seattle, Wolf, Nixon, Isn't She Great, Wet, Hot, American Summer and the animated films A Bug's Life, Osmosis Jones and soon to be released Treasure Planet.
Pierce was most recently seen in the critically acclaimed film, Full Frontal and wrapped production on the Doris Day, Rock Hudson romantic-comedy remake Down with Love, co-starring Renee Zellwegger and Ewan McGregor. His television credits include a short but happy stint on Norman Lear's political satire The Powers that Be and a long but happy stint on Frasier.
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