{{short description|American actor|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Multiple issues|section=| {{Notability|Bio||date=June 2023}} {{Resume-like|date=June 2023}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2025}} {{COI |date=January 2025}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Justin Blanchard | image = Justin Blanchard 00.jpg | birth_name = Justin Wayne Blanchard | birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, U.S. | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1998–present | education = New York University {{small|(BFA)}}<br>Brown University {{small|(MFA)}} | website = {{URL|justinblanchard.com|Official website}} }} '''Justin Blanchard''' is an American actor who has performed in television, film, theatre and radio. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Actors' Equity Association.
==Education== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=January 2025}} Blanchard grew up in San Antonio, Texas and resides in Los Angeles, California. He earned his BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, training at the CAP21 musical theater program, the Experimental Theatre Wing and the Stonestreet Film and Television Studio. He received his MFA in Acting from Brown University. Blanchard has performed professionally for more than 20 years, and is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Actors' Equity Association.
Blanchard is an alumnus of Texas Military Institute. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as a Company Commander in TMI's Corps of Cadets.
==Career== Justin Blanchard has performed in television, film, theatre and radio. Blanchard made his Broadway debut as 2nd Lieutenant Hibbert{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} in ''Journey's End''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brantley |first=Ben |date=2007-02-23 |title=For Comrades in Arms, Waiting and Nothingness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/theater/reviews/23jour.html |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Marks |first=Peter |date=2007-02-23 |title='Journey's End': The Horrors Of War in The Trenches |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201973.html |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=Washington Post}}</ref> ''Journey's End'' was Blanchard's first ever audition in New York City.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
In television and film, Blanchard has been a Guest Star on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' and co-starred in the PBS special ''The Mystery of Matter: Marie Curie''. Other notable television appearances include ''All My Children'', ''Guiding Light'', and ''One Life to Live''. He appeared in commercials for Oscar De La Renta and the MTV: Safe Sex campaign. In film, he has co-starred in ''The Middleman'' (Dir: by Heath Cullens), ''Over There'' (Dir: Mark Parees), and ''Alyssa & Sara'' (Dir: Josh Wick).{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} He has also done voiceover work for audiobooks such as ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'',{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} a podcast adaptation of a play by J.M. Barrie,<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 16, 2009 |title=The Will (1913) by J. M. Barrie |url=http://www.lostplays.com/play/the-will |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507035214/http://www.lostplays.com/play/the-will |archive-date=2010-05-07 |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=Lost Plays Podcast}}</ref> video games and commercials.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
Notable theatrical performances include: King of Navarre in ''Love's Labour's Lost'' for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston Common,{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} Hamlet in ''Hamlet''<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2010-04-01 |title=Shakespeare on the Run: Hamlet |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/show/24659/Shakespeare-on-the-Run-Hamlet/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415181308/http://theater.nytimes.com/show/24659/Shakespeare-on-the-Run-Hamlet/overview |archive-date=2010-04-15 |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=New York Times}}</ref> and Henry V in ''Henry V'' for New York Classical Theatre (Off-Broadway), and Iachimo in Fiasco Theater's ''Cymbeline''.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;" |+ACTING PERFORMANCES{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} |- style="text-align:center;" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Production ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Venue ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- | ''Journey's End'' | 2nd LT Hibbert | Broadway | Belasco Theatre<ref name=":0" /> | Directed by David Grindley<br>Tony Award<br>Drama Desk Award<br>Outer Critics Circle Award<br>Drama League Award<br>New York Drama Critics Circle - Special Citation |- | ''Zorba'' | Nikos | Pre-Broadway | Workshop | David Leveaux - Director |- | ''Henry V'' | Henry V | Off-Broadway | New York Classical Theatre | Directed by Stephen Burdman<br>Featured production in the 2011 NYC River to River Festival |- | ''The Witch of Edmonton'' | Frank Thorney | Off-Broadway | Red Bull Theater Co. | Directed by Jesse Berger<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brantley |first=Ben |date=2011-02-04 |title=Black-Magic Woman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/theater/reviews/05witch.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |- | ''Macbeth'' | Malcolm | Off-Broadway | Theatre for a New Audience | Directed by Arin Arbus<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brantley |first=Ben |date=2011-03-25 |title=The Deed Is Done, the Doers Undone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/theater/reviews/macbeth-opens-at-the-duke-on-42nd-street-review.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |- | ''Hamlet: Prince of Denmark'' | Hamlet | Off-Broadway | New York Classical Theatre | Directed by Stephen Burdman<br>Performed in the World Financial Center<ref name=":1" /> |- | ''Sense and Sensibility'' | Willoughby | Regional | Actors Theatre of Louisville | Directed by Jon Jory |- | ''Othello'' | Iago | Regional | Actors Theatre of Louisville | Directed by Bruce Longworth |- | ''A Civil War Christmas'' | Chester | Regional | Long Wharf Theatre | Directed by Tina Landau<br>Premiere of Paula Vogel's play |- | ''Argonautika'' | Hylas | Regional | Berkeley Repertory Theatre<br> McCarter Theatre<br>Shakespeare Theatre Washington D.C. | Premiere directed by Mary Zimmerman |-|- | ''As You Like It'' | Orlando | Regional | Hangar Theatre | Directed by Kevin Moriarty |- | ''Hamlet'' | Laertes | Regional | Trinity Repertory Company<br>Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis | Directed (Trinity Rep) by Brian McEleney<br>Directed (St. Louis Shakespeare) by Bruce Longworth |- | Law & Order: Special Victims' Unit (''Svengali'') | Edgar Rabinowicz<br>(a/k/a Agent Mayhem) | Television | NBC | |- | ''Mystery of Matter:Marie Curie'' | Andre DeBierne | Television | PBS |- | ''The Middle Man'' | Luke | Film | Short | Directed by Heath Cullens<br>2007 LA Shorts Festival |- | ''Over There'' | Dominick | Film | Short | Directed by Marc Parees |- | ''Cilantro: Robot Wrangler'' | Cilantro | Film | Short | Directed by Brad Winderbaum |- | ''Alyssa & Sara'' | Aaron | Film | Short | Directed by Josh Wick |- |}
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