Victor Garber

Victor Garber began his performing career as a folk singer before forming the folk group The Sugar Shoppe in 1967 with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood and Lee Harris. The group achieved moderate success in Canada, including a Top 40 hit with “Canada” in 1967, and also performed on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Garber made his stage debut as Jesus Christ in the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, a role he reprised in the 1973 film adaptation. His theatre career continued with Ghosts (1973), Joe's Opera (1975), Cracks (1976), and The Shadow Box (1977), in which he played Mark on Broadway. He appeared as Valère in Tartuffe (1977) and as Cliff Anderson in Deathtrap (1978), followed by Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Vernon Gersch in They're Playing Our Song (1979–1981), and multiple roles in Little Me (1982). In 1983, he played Gary LeJuene in Noises Off on Broadway.

Garber continued his stage work with You Never Can Tell (1986–1987), playing Valentine opposite Uta Hagen, followed by Richard Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple (1988), a performer in Wenceslas Square (1988), and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III in Love Letters (1989). He also played Max in Lend Me a Tenor (1989) and Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along at Arena Stage in 1990. From 1990 to 1991, he played John Wilkes Booth in the original Off-Broadway production of Assassins. His subsequent theatre credits included Edwin Forrest in Two Shakespearean Actors (1992), Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees (1994–1995), Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia (1995), and Serge in Art (1998).

Garber later appeared as Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music at Los Angeles Opera in 2004 and reprised the role on Broadway in 2009. He played Benjamin Stone in Follies at New York City Center in 2007, Garry Essendine in Present Laughter at the Huntington Theatre in 2007 and on Broadway in 2010, and Zoltan Maraczek in She Loves Me on Broadway in 2011. In 2018, he joined the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! as Horace Vandergelder. His later theatre credits included Andrew Makepeace Ladd III in Love Letters at Irish Repertory Theatre in 2023 and a one-night Broadway cameo as the Producer in Gutenberg! The Musical! in 2023. Garber received the Theatre World John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2018.

On film, Garber's career highlights include Godspell (1973), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), The First Wives Club (1996), Titanic (1997), Legally Blonde (2001), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Milk (2008), Green Lantern: First Flight (2009), Argo (2012), Big Game (2014), and Wish (2023). He also appeared in Annie (1999), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), You Again (2010), The Town (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Self/less (2015), Sicario (2015), Rebel in the Rye (2017), Dark Waters (2019), Happiest Season (2020), and Fly Me to the Moon (2024).

Garber's television career includes the 1985 series I Had Three Wives, a recurring role on E.N.G. from 1991 to 1993, and the miniseries Alex Haley's Queen (1993). He played Jack Bristow on Alias from 2001 to 2006, earning three Emmy nominations, and subsequently appeared in Justice (2006), Eli Stone (2008–2009), and ReGenesis (2007–2008). He also appeared in Glee (2009), Nurse Jackie (2009), Web Therapy (2009–2015), and Republic of Doyle (2010–2013).

From 2015 to 2023, Garber portrayed Martin Stein/Firestorm across The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, including a series-regular role on Legends of Tomorrow from 2016 to 2017. He also voiced the character in Vixen (2016) and appeared in the crossover episodes of Supergirl and Arrow in 2017. His later television credits include The Orville (2017–2022), Tales of the City (2019), Schitt's Creek (2020), Power Book II: Ghost (2020–2021), Family Law (2021–2026), And Just Like That... (2023–2025), American Horror Stories (2024), and Not Suitable for Work (2026).