Philip Bosco

Philip Michael Bosco was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Margaret Raymond (Thek), a policewoman, and Philip Lupo Bosco, a carnival worker. He was of Italian and German descent. Bosco graduated from Saint Peter's Prep School, 1948, and from the Catholic University of America, A. B.

Army Signal Corps, 1951-53. Bosco worked in a carnival and as a trailer truck driver before becoming an actor. He received the Shakespeare Society of Washington, D. C.

1957. He served as a private in the U. S.

Award (1957), won the Variety NY Drama Critics' Poll for his performance as Heracles in "The Rape of the Belt" (1961), and received a Tony nomination for "The Rape of the Belt".

Won Broadway's 1989 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for "Lend Me a Tenor." He has also been Tony-nominated for four other performances: in 1961, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "The Rape of the Belt," in 1984, for Best Actor (Featrured Role - Play) for George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," and twice as Best Actor (Play), in 1987 for George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" and in 1996 for "Moon Over Buffalo."

Nominated for a Tony Award in 1996 for Best Actor in Moon Over Buffalo

Made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in April 2003 in the role of Leonardo, in the concert staging of Berlioz's opera Beatrice and Benedict.

Was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award (New York City) for Actor in a Drama for "Twelve Angry Men".

appearing in "Heartbreak House" for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City. [November 2006]

As of 2017, he has appeared in two films which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Children of a Lesser God (1986) and Working Girl (1988).