Began acting in summer stock at age 12, making his stage debut as the Artful Dodger in a New Jersey production of Oliver! Made Broadway debut in 1986 as a replacement in the role of Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs
Breakthrough movie role was as sensitive student Neil Perry in 1989's Dead Poets Society
Best known as oncologist James Wilson on FOX's medical drama House, a role he has played since 2004
Awards
2008Screen Actors Guild Awards-Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series:nominated