Matt Bomer Wins the Golden Globe for THE NORMAL HEART

Matt Bomer has won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series, or Television Film for THE NORMAL HEART, HBO's film adaptation of the Broadway play. Bomer portrayed New York Times writer Felix Turner in the film.

Known to television viewers the world over as White Collar's Neal Caffrey, Bomer won a Critics' Choice Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of Felix Turner in HBO's critically acclaimed screen adaptation of The Normal Heart. Based on the Tony Award winning Larry Kramer play about the AIDS epidemic in New York in the 1980's, the movie also starred Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo and Jim Parsons, and was directed by Ryan Murphy.

Bomer's movie credits include Flightplan, The Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Space Station 76, andSteven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, alongside Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum. On television, he has been seen in Traveler, the FOX series Tru Calling, and the NBC series Chuck as well as the FOX series Glee and NBC's The New Normal.

On Stage, he was recently seen in the Broadway and Los Angeles readings of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8, where he was joined by such acting luminaries as Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John C. Reillyand Ellen Barkin.

HBO presents THE NORMAL HEART, directed by Ryan Murphy, produced by Scott Ferguson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Jason Blum, Dede Gardner, Dante Di Loreto, Ryan Murphy and Brad Pitt. Nominated for three Golden Globes® including Best Motion Picture Made for Television, winner of the Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Television Movie, and winner of two Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Movie and Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries, it is a drama about the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

THE NORMAL HEART stars Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Emmy winner Jim Parsons and Academy Award winner Julia Roberts. The film is written by Academy Award nominee Larry Kramer, adapting his groundbreaking Tony Award-winning play of the same name. HBO debuted the film earlier this year.