Frank Deal is an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

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 and acting teacher based in New York City

New York City

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. He has a successful career in television

Television

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, theatre

Theatre

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, and film

Film

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, as well as steady teaching jobs at Juilliard and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Career

Deal's acting credits include the New York premieres of August: Osage County (Broadway), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Paul Rudnick

Paul Rudnick

Paul M. Rudnick is an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His plays include I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla and The New Century. He also wrote for Premiere magazine under the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner, and for Spy.Rudnick grew up in Piscataway...

), One Neck (w/ Allison Janney

Allison Janney

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), Second-Hand Smoke (Mac Wellman

Mac Wellman

Mac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...

) and The Vietnamization of New Jersey

The Vietnamization of New Jersey

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(Christopher Durang

Christopher Durang

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 – off-Broadway). Regionally, Deal has been in Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center), Side Man (Guthrie), Six Years (Humana), Black Dahlia (Yale Repertory Theatre

Yale Repertory Theatre

The Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. In the process it has become one of the...

), among work with companies that include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Triad Stage, American Contemporary Theatre Festival, Merrimack Repertory, and Virginia Stage Co.

Deal's television credits include Nurse Jackie

Nurse Jackie

Nurse Jackie is an American series that premiered on June 8, 2009, on Showtime, Movie Central and The Movie Network.The series stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency room nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City...

, Unforgettable

Unforgettable (TV series)

Unforgettable is an American crime/mystery television series about a police detective with an unusually detailed memory. The hour-long program, which is based on J...

, Fringe

Fringe (TV series)

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...

, The Onion News Network, The Sopranos

The Sopranos

The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...

, Law & Order

Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...

, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch

Third Watch

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and Ed

Ed (TV series)

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.

He has appeared in the films The Bourne Legacy

The Bourne Legacy (film)

The Bourne Legacy will be the fourth entry in the eponymous Jason Bourne film franchise, which is based on the books of the same name by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader. Currently slated for a summer 2012 release, the movie will once again most likely be an adaptation of the novel in the...

, The Bay, Deception, Able Danger, The House Is Burning

The House is Burning

The House Is Burning is a 2006 German drama film directed by Holger Ernst. It was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* John Diehl - Mr. Garson* Melissa Leo - Mrs...

(Cannes), Flannel Pajamas (Sundance), and Body/Antibody.

Deal currently teaches at Juilliard and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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