Malcolm Gets (born December 28, 1963) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Richard in the American television sitcom Caroline in the City. Gets is also a dancer, singer, composer, classically trained pianist, vocal director, and choreographer. His first solo album came out in 2009 from PS Classics. Gets was nominated for a Tony Award in 2003 (Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Musical for Amour) and was awarded the Obie Award in 1995. Life and career Gets was born in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of Lispbeth, an educator, and Terence Gets, a college textbook salesman. Both parents grew up in London, England. He moved with his family to New Jersey. He lived there until he was six, when his family moved to Gainesville, Florida. He has an older brother Erik, an older sister Alison and a younger sister Adrienne. Gets started studying performing arts early in life. He began studying piano at age nine. This skill helped him pay his way through college. He began singing lessons at 14. He also danced with a studio in Gainesville as a teenager. Gets skipped two years of K-12 education and graduated from Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida, aged 16. He then attended the University of Florida, where he won Best Newcomer's Award in acting and at age 24 earned a BFA in Theatre (1988). Following that, he completed an MFA at the Yale Drama School. Gets came out as gay in the late 1990s and lives with his partner. Filmography Television Film Theater Gets was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical in 2003 for his work in Amour. Selected work Amadeus (1983) Cloud Nine (1984) Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour (1986) As Is (1987) Special Events Dreamgirls as Film Executive (2001) Passion as Colonel Ricci (2004) Off-Broadway Merrily We Roll Along as Franklin Shepard (1994 at the York Theatre) Hello Again as The Writer (1994 at Lincoln Center) A New Brain as Gordon Michael Schwinn (1998 at Lincoln Center) Boys and Girls as Jake (2002 at The Duke, 42nd Street) Vigil by [Morris Panych] as Kemp (2009 at the DR2 Theatre) Banished Children of Eve as Stephen Collins Foster (2010 at the Irish Repertory Theatre) Gets was awarded the Obie Award for his work in Merrily We Roll Along and The Two Gentlemen