Len Cariou

Len Cariou Bio

Len Cariou (born September 30, 1939 in St Boniface, Manitoba, Canada) is an actor and Tony Award-winning performer.
Cariou started his acting career in the drama department at Miles Macdonell Collegiate. He directed and starred in several plays and continued to perform at St Paul's College in Manitoba. After graduating, he began working in local theater. In 1968, Cariou made the leap to Broadway, appearing in The House of Atreus, and Applause (1970), for which he won his first Tony Award. In 1973, he starred as Frederick Egerman in "A Little Night Music," which won him his second Tony Award.
Following his Broadway triumphs in "Applause" (1970) and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (1979), Cariou crossed over to films and television with memorable appearances as a spy on "Murder, She Wrote" (CBS, 1984-1996) and as Walt Disney in "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story" (CBS, 1995). In 2008, he appeared in a three-episode arc as Captain Allard Bunker in the long-running cop drama "Law and Order" (NBC, 1990-2010). He also portrayed distinguished American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the BBC-produced historical drama, "Into the Storm" (2008).