Orlando LuPone is the only child of Robert LuPone, an American actor, artistic director and founder of the off-Broadway MCC Theatre and his wife Virginia.
There’s not much information on Orlando as his dad kept information about him under the wraps.
Sadly, Orlando’s father Robert LuPone passed away on Saturday August 27 following a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
LuPone’s death was confirmed by the MCC Theater in a statement released on Saturday to the Associated Press.
LuPone’s Broadway performances included;
- A Thousand Clowns (2001),
- True West (2000),
- A View from the Bridge (1997),
- Late Nite Comic (1987),
- Saint Joan (1977), and
- The Magic Show (1974).
For his performance as Zach in A Chorus Line (1976), he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
As artistic director of MCC Theater in New York City, he produced Frozen (2004) and Reasons To Be Pretty (2008), both of which were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
LuPone was in the Chicago premiere of Sam Shepard’s “The Tooth of Crime and on TV was in “Sex and the City,” Guiding Light,” and “All My Children,” for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination.