Victor Garber

Born: 16 March 1949
Where: Ontario, Canada

A leading Broadway player for over three decades, Victor has sung in musicals and played in theatre of all kinds to the tune of one Tony award after another.

He has also recently appeared in feature films, and his face is slowly becoming known to cinema-goers as well as theatre buffs, most notably in James Cameron's Titanic, as the ship's designer who calmly awaits its sinking.

Victor's career began early. He was 15 when he joined the University of Toronto's Hart House acting group and soon after formed a band, The Sugar Shoppe.

Ibsen's play Ghosts brought Victor to Broadway in 1973 and he has never looked back.

For 20 years Victor played on and off Broadway, and in a succession of minor and short-lived TV roles.

His role as a drug dealer in 1992's Light Sleeper suddenly revived his big screen career. Goldie Hawn's ex-husband in The First Wives Club was a big cinema role for Victor, and he followed it up with a part in Titanic.

Further Broadway success, and some more film roles (Legally Blonde, Tuck Everlasting) have kept Victor's career afloat and he is now known as a most reliable and well-received actor.