TV: The Actors Fund Celebrates the Tony Awards in LA!

By: Jun. 25, 2015
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The Actors Fund celebrated Broadway's Biggest Night at the 19th Annual Tony Awards Viewing Party on Sunday, June 7, 2015 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by Daytime Emmy Award winner and three-time Tony Award nominee Kate Burton, this year's gala raised $250,000 and honored Tony's Leading Men Theodore Bikel ("The Sound of Music," "Fiddler On The Roof"), Tim Curry ("The Rocky Horror Show"), Alfred Molina ("Love Is Strange") and Joe Morton ("Scandal") with the Fund's Artistic Achievement Awards. BWW TV's Los Angeles on-air host and producer Michael Sterling was on hand for the festivities.

Celebrity attendance included Sharon Stone (Fading Gigolo, TNT's Agent X) Ashley Argota ("The Fosters"), Miles Brown ("Black-ish"), Mireille Enos (Emmy, Golden Globe & Tony nominee; star of the new Shonda Rhimes ABC series "The Catch"), Cheyenne Jackson ("American Horror Story: Hotel"), Sebastian La Cause ("Orange Is The New Black"), Renée Marino (Clint Eastwood's "Jersey Boys"), Lee Meriwether, Alan Ruck ("Spin City," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"), Calum Worthy (the Disney Channel's "Austin & Ally"), Charlotte Rae ("The Facts of Life"), along with Jennifer Shelton, Ilene Graff ("Hart of Dixie", "Mr. Belvedere"), John Mauceri (Evita), Kate Linder ("The Young and the Restless"), Davis Gaines ("The Phantom of the Opera"), Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond), Kevin Chamberlin (Disney Channel's "Jessie"), Broadway and the U.K.'s Millicent Martin, TV and film actor Patrick Fabian ("Better Call Saul") and more.

The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that helps everyone-performersand those behind the scenes-who works in performing arts and entertainment, helping more than 21,000 people directly each year, and hundreds of thousands online. Serving professionals in ?lm, theatre, television, music, opera, radio and dance, The Fund's programs include social services and emergency ?nancial assistance, health care and insurance counseling, housing, and employment and training services. With of?ces in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Actors Fund has-for 133 years-been a safety net for those in need, crisis or transition. Visit www.actorsfund.org.


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