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Robert Sean Leonard (* Feb 28, 1969) is an american actor, born in Westwood, New Jersey. His movie credits include films as different as "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Age of Innoncence", "Driven" and, of course, "Dead Poets Society": The award winning motion picture (Oscar for Best Screenplay, 1989) starred Robert as a sensitive student at a conservative school, who gets infected with poetry by his new, unconventonial teacher (Robin Williams), discovering through the process there's more to life than living up to his father's expectations. Though Robert's character, torn between his former life and a new horizon, finally commits suicide, the story is considered to be one of the strongest statements for freedom of the mind in movie history. Robert has worked with top directors like Martin Scorcese and Peter Weir, starring opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, Keanu Reeves, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Beckinsale, Susan Sarandon, James Woods, Denzel Washington, Paul Newman, Sylvester Stallone and others.

Since 2004, he stars as Dr. James Wilson in the TV Blockbuster Series "House", making him a household name to a worldwide television audience. As brilliant as Hugh Laurie plays the leading role, critics and fans applaude Robert for being the perfect sidekick, giving Laurie the opportunity to shine. Though the relationship between the egomaniac House and the do-gooder Wilson lets the latter sometimes look like a masochistic appendix of his nasty friend, House needs him as his conscience and indeed the only person who can see through him. Taking a closer look at the characters, the resemblence to another famous team of investigators becomes obvious: Just like Sherlock Holmes solves mysterious cases with the support of loyal Dr. Watson, House cures rare deseases aided by his colleague Wilson. Not only the names and the method (watch the details, expect the unexpected, be creative) suggest this analogy: Like Holmes, House is a drug addict, a musician, arrogant but brilliant. And like the London 19th century investigators, the doctors both have apartment numbers 221B. As Emmy-winning author David Shore admits, the parallels are not coincidental ...

Furthermore, Robert Sean Leonard crowned his first appearance in a broadway musical (Invention of Love, 2001) by winning a Tony Award (Best Supporting Actor in a Musical).