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Has 2 children with Kathryn Erbe - Daughter Maeve Elsbeth Erbe Kinney born October 26, 1995 & son Carson Lincoln Kinney, born October 15, 2003.

Co-founder of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for playing Reverend Jim Casey in "The Grapes of Wrath," a part he recreated in the television version of the same title, The Grapes of Wrath (1991).

Second child with Kathryn Erbe, son Carson Lincoln Kinney, born October 15, 2003.

Daughter, Maeve Elsbeth Erbe Kinney, born Oct. 26, 1995.

He was nominated for a 1984 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Tracers" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 1979 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Glass Menagerie" at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 1985 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Orphans" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Grapes of Wrath" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

He was nominated for a 1991 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Another Time" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

His father was of English and Irish descent and his mother was of German ancestry.

He was nominated for a 1980 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in "Death of a Salesman" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

He was awarded the 1983 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "And a Nightingale Sang" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.

Born on exactly the same date as Oprah Winfrey.