Anthony Rapp: 5 Things To Know About ‘Rent’ Star Testifying Against Kevin Spacey

Anthony Rapp’s trial against Kevin Spacey will statesman connected Thursday, October 6. Anthony, 50, sued Kevin, 63, for allegedly groping the Rent actor’s buttocks and lying connected apical of him erstwhile helium was a teen, according to CNN. Anthony is expected to instrumentality the basal and stock his experiences with The Usual Suspects star erstwhile helium was conscionable 14. Anthony filed the suit successful 2020, citing assault, battery, and intentionally inflicting affectional distress.

Kevin’s lawyer Chase Scolnick said that helium believes that his lawsuit volition triumph the proceedings successful a connection to CNN. “We look guardant to seeing Mr. Rapp’s claims tried earlier an impartial assemblage alternatively than successful societal media, and we expect Mr. Spacey volition beryllium vindicated,” helium said.

Anthony attends the premiere of ‘Tick Tick Boom.’ (Greg Allen/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Find retired everything you request to cognize astir Anthony here.

1. Anthony has been connected Broadway since helium was a kid

Anthony has been appearing onstage since helium was lone 9 years old. The histrion made his debut successful 1981’s The Little Prince and The Aviator, which closed aft lone 20 previews, per IBDB. He continued acting successful assorted theatre productions, including off-Broadway shows and nationalist tours. Other Broadway roles during his teen years included Precious Sons and Six Degrees of Separation in the 80s, but his large interruption came successful 1996, erstwhile helium starred arsenic filmmaker Mark Cohen successful the landmark 90s musical Rent. 

Anthony’s quality serves arsenic the narrator for the show, which won 4 Tony Awards successful its archetypal run. Rent won Best Musical astatine the 1996 grant show. Anthony starred successful the archetypal off-Broadway run, and reprised the relation for the nationalist circuit and the London West End production. He returned on with overmuch of the archetypal formed arsenic Mark for the 2005 movie adaptation.

2. He’s besides starred successful movies and TV

Anthony successful the 2005 ‘Rent’ film. (Phil Bray/Sony/Kobal/Shutterstock)

Besides the movie adaptation of Rent, Mark has had a palmy acting vocation on-screen. He made his movie debut successful the 1987 flick Adventures successful Babysitting. He’s besides starred successful classical movies similar the 1993 precocious schoolhouse flick Dazed and Confused or 2001 drama A Beautiful Mind. Aside from his movie roles, Anthony besides had a large occurrence arsenic Lt. Cmdr. Paul Stamets successful the Star Trek: Discoveries series from 2017 until 2022.

3. He archetypal shared his allegations against Kevin Spacey successful 2017

Anthony archetypal opened up astir his allegations against Kevin 5 years earlier the proceedings successful a 2017 interrogation with Buzzfeed. Anthony alleged that erstwhile helium was 14, Kevin had invited to a enactment astatine his apartment, and astatine the extremity of the nighttime enactment him connected his bed, climbed connected apical of him and tried to prosecute successful intersexual actions with the actor. Kevin would’ve been 26 astatine the time. “I inactive to this time can’t wrapper my caput astir truthful galore aspects of it. It’s conscionable profoundly confusing to me,” Anthony told Buzzfeed astatine the time. “The older I get, the much I can’t judge it. I could ne'er ideate [that] anyone other I cognize would bash thing similar that to a 14-year-old boy.”

Anthony said that he’d shared the communicative with partners and friends passim the 90s and aboriginal 2000s, but 2017 was erstwhile helium archetypal went nationalist with the allegations. Following the story, Kevin made a nationalist apology to Anthony, but said helium didn’t retrieve the alleged encounter. “I’m beyond horrified to perceive his story,” helium tweeted. “If I did behave past arsenic helium describes, I beryllium him the sincerest apology for what would’ve been profoundly inappropriate drunken behaviour and, and I americium atrocious for these feelings helium describes having carried with him each these years.

4. He’s engaged to his partner

Anthony has been successful a loving narration with Ken Ithiphol for years, and helium announced that the 2 got engaged successful 2019. “So thing happened tonight. I asked Ken if helium would wed maine and helium said yes. I americium truthful precise blessed and I’m truthful precise thrilled to stock this news,” helium wrote successful a tweet, sharing a photograph of him and his fiancé astatine the time. While it doesn’t look similar the 2 person officially tied the knot conscionable yet, Anthony has regularly gushed astir Ken connected his societal media, sharing photos and speaking astir however overmuch helium loves him.

Anthony attends a show of ‘Rent’ successful London successful 2016. (Dan Wooller/Shutterstock)

5. He’s a immense shot fan

While Anthony is chiefly an actor, he’s not shy astir sharing his emotion for America’s favourite pastime. He hosts a podcast with Muneesh Jain, called The Clubhouse, where the 2 hosts beryllium down with shot fans to speech astir the game. Being calved successful Chicago, it’s nary astonishment that Anthony says that he’s a “die hard Cubs fan,” successful the show’s description.