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In 2001, Brian won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for Death of a Salesman.
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Brian's father was a "AP News" staffer.
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Brian won the Sarah Siddons Award for his work in Chicago Theatre in 1999.
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Brian has said that his favourite movie is On the Waterfront.
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Brian has been married to his current wife, Jennifer Arnott, since 1988.
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Brian is the father of actress Elizabeth Dennehy who has had role in the television series' Charmed and The West Wing.
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Brian studied dramatic arts at Yale University.
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Brian is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, which is one of the oldest and largest fraternities in America.
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Brian is good friends with lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, with whom he worked with at a stockbroking firm.
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Brian is the father of actress Kathleen Dennehy who has had roles in television shows such as Law & Order and E.R.
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Brian married Judith Scheff in 1959 but they divorced in 1974.
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Brian was parodied in the South Park movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
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Brian majored in History at Columbia University, where he attended on a football scholarship.
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Brian attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York which is a boys-only Roman Catholic high school.
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Brian served in the United States Marine Corps from 1959 to 1963.