Andrew Burnap - 21 Who Made a Difference in 2021
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Andrew Burnap - 21 Who Made a Difference in 2021
This is his first Tony nomination and win. He is a 2013 graduate of the University of Rhode Island.
Burnap beat out fellow nominees Ian Barford (Linda Vista), Tom Hiddleston (Betrayal), Jake Gyllenhaal (Sea Wall/A Life), Tom Sturridge (Sea Wall/A Life), and Blair Underwood (A Soldier’s Play).
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Not only did become a leading global actor, but also a new voice about changing perceptions.
He said in an interview with UK Glamour, "I think it [his changed perception about masculinity] started changing for me in grad school. I think once I really got serious about trying to understand human beings and the choices that they make and why they make those choices, I started to find real meaning, and meaning in that word I keep using, vulnerability - it's such a great f**king word!
In grad school, for the first time I was around men, specifically actors and my teachers at the time, who understood that some ideas of masculinity are a false construct. We were encouraged to transcend that false construct in order to fully understand ourselves and fully understand the characters that we were playing. It all happened around the age of 22 years old."
He grew up in South Kingstown.