Broadway star and celebrated actor Shuler Hensley was born in Atlanta and raised in Marietta. After graduating from the Westminster Schools, he attended the University of Georgia on a baseball scholarship. He left UGA after his sophomore year and decided to study voice at the Manhattan School of Music, where he majored in opera.
After getting his master’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he began his stage career.
Hensley has starred in productions such as Broadway’s “Young Frankenstein,” where he played the Monster. He has played Kerchak in a Broadway production of “Tarzan,” and he won an Olivier Award for playing Jud in a London production of “Oklahoma.”
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