Philip Anglim

Philip Charles Anglim is an American actor best known for his performance as Joseph Merrick in the stage and television versions of The Elephant Man, a role for which he received a Best Actor nomination in the 1979 Tony Awards. Other notable roles include Macbeth on Broadway and Dane ONeill, the illfated love child who grew up to follow in his unknown fathers footsteps on the path to the priesthood, in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds. He also had a recurring guest role as the Bajoran priest Vedek Bareil on Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

Anglim was born in San Francisco, California. His father, a Catholic of Irish descent, worked as a patent attorney, while his mother, Paule Anglim, was of French and Jewish descent and was a San Francisco art dealer. He originally aspired to become a veterinarian, but after he was asked to appear in a play by one of his teachers, he switched to acting. Anglim graduated with a bachelors degree in English literature from Yale University in 1973. Subsequently, Anglim spent a year in Connecticut at the Southbury Playhouse.

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