Tony Award Winner Robert Sean Leonard to Star in Old Globe's Pygmalion
(Courtesy of The Old Globe)
In the play, Higgins, a British linguist, bets a fellow scholar that he can pass off Eliza Doolittle, a common Cockney flower girl, as the pinnacle of English society.
Leonard has been seen on Broadway in The Invention of Love, for which he won a Tony Award, as well as Long Day's Journey Into Night and Born Yesterday.
His film credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Age of Innocence, and Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco, andhe appeared for eight seasons on the Fox medical drama House.