Education
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. That same year he starred in Edward Albee"s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum. In 1989 he had played Nick in a revival of Albee"s Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Doolittle Theatre (now the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre) in Los Los Angeles
The production, directed by the playwright, also featured Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow, with Cynthia Nixon as his character"s wife, Honey.
The production was not well received. He also played opposite Kathy Baker in the South Coast Repertory production of The Manitoba from Nebraska in 2006.
His most recent stage appearance was in the Broadway production August: Osage County. Kerwin"s feature films include Murphy"s Romance, Hard Promises, 27 Dresses (as Katherine Heigl"s character"s father), Torch Song Trilogy, Love Field, Jack, King Kong Lives, The Myth of Fingerprints, and Debating Robert Lee.
Kerwin has enjoyed an extensive career in television, beginning with the daytime serial The Young and the Restless in 1976.
In addition to many television movies, his credits include a regular role on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, recurring roles on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Chisholms (four 1979 episodes as Gideon Chisholm), Roseanne, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck and Big Love and guest appearances in The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, Saint Elsewhere, Frasier, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, Boston Legal, Medium, Without a Trace, and Desperate Housewives. In 2007, he joined the cast of the soap opera One Life to Live. Brian was also in a television movie with Michelle Pfeiffer called Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson.
His name was spelled Brain Kerwin in the credits.
Kerwin has been married to Jeanne Marie Troy since September 2, 1990. They have three children, Finn, Matilda, and Brennan.
The family lives in New York City. He is a 1967 alumnus of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois.