Ronald Rand
- Actor
Ronald Rand is an internationally-renowned stage, film and TV actor,
hailed as a 'U.S. Cultural Ambassador,' best known from his world
travels transforming himself into Harold Clurman, the "elder statesman
of the American Theatre" in his play, "LET IT BE ART!" Seen in nearly
25 countries and 20 states, it received two critically-acclaimed runs
Off-Broadway in New York City.
He has appeared in over 250 film and television shows, including being cast as President Nixon in Rude Awakening, Milton Sterns in the PBS American Playhouse A Life O'Keefe and Stieglitz, an assistant DA in Family Business, a bar fly opposite Ralph Fiennes in Quiz Show, a nerdy executive in Another You, an irate commuter in The Jerky Boys, a billionaire in When in Rome, the murdered husband of Mercedes Ruehl on Law & Order, and a good Samaritan in Yoko Ono's film, Homeless. He's appeared on several daytime operas including One Life to Live, All My Children, Another World, and As the World Turns.
Beginning his career as a child actor, Ronald Rand appeared in over 350 plays with a professional children's theater in Florida. As a student at New York University, he studied in New York City with Harold Clurman, Jerzy Grotowski, and Stella Adler.
He made his Off-Broadway debut in Julius Caesar at Bam opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Thomas Hulce. He performed in numerous plays Off-Broadway, including Servant of Two Masters directed by Stuart Vaughan, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Endgame directed by Joseph Chaikin, Perfect Crime, and toured across Europe as the Fool in King Lear. He has appeared many times in the free TIPA Literary Programs around New York City with Alan Bates, Brian Murray, Ed Asner, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Marian Seldes, Fritz Weaver, Judy Kaye, and Tammy Grimes.
He has appeared in over 250 film and television shows, including being cast as President Nixon in Rude Awakening, Milton Sterns in the PBS American Playhouse A Life O'Keefe and Stieglitz, an assistant DA in Family Business, a bar fly opposite Ralph Fiennes in Quiz Show, a nerdy executive in Another You, an irate commuter in The Jerky Boys, a billionaire in When in Rome, the murdered husband of Mercedes Ruehl on Law & Order, and a good Samaritan in Yoko Ono's film, Homeless. He's appeared on several daytime operas including One Life to Live, All My Children, Another World, and As the World Turns.
Beginning his career as a child actor, Ronald Rand appeared in over 350 plays with a professional children's theater in Florida. As a student at New York University, he studied in New York City with Harold Clurman, Jerzy Grotowski, and Stella Adler.
He made his Off-Broadway debut in Julius Caesar at Bam opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Thomas Hulce. He performed in numerous plays Off-Broadway, including Servant of Two Masters directed by Stuart Vaughan, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Endgame directed by Joseph Chaikin, Perfect Crime, and toured across Europe as the Fool in King Lear. He has appeared many times in the free TIPA Literary Programs around New York City with Alan Bates, Brian Murray, Ed Asner, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Marian Seldes, Fritz Weaver, Judy Kaye, and Tammy Grimes.
