Conrad Ricamora
Actor
2006–present
Early life[edit]
Ricamora was born in Santa Maria, California. He is the son of Ron Ricamora, who was in the US Air Force, and social worker Debbie Bolender. His father was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to the US when he was 10. His father is believed to be of Filipino descent and is adopted,[2][3] and his mother is of German and Irish descent.[4] Ricamora grew up primarily in Niceville, Florida, and was an avid tennis player. He is gay and was honored with the Human Rights Campaign's Visibility Award.[5]
Ricamora attended Queens University of Charlotte on a tennis scholarship, graduating with a degree in psychology in 2001.[6] He graduated from the MFA acting program at University of Tennessee in 2012.[7]
Career[edit]
Ricamora was first introduced to acting during his undergraduate studies and, after graduating, took part in community theater in Charlotte, North Carolina and Philadelphia before attending acting school.[6] Following graduation, Ricamora performed the role of Ninoy Aquino in the 2013 Off-Broadway musical, Here Lies Love, which had two runs at The Public Theater. He won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical.[8][9][10]
In 2014, he was cast in the recurring role of Oliver Hampton on the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder.[11] He continued to make guest appearances throughout the show's second season and was promoted to a series regular in season three.[12] The show concluded after its sixth season in 2020.
Ricamora played Lun Tha in Lincoln Center Theater's 2015 Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, directed by Bartlett Sher.[13] The 2015 Broadway cast recording of the musical received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album.[14]
In 2017, Ricamora rejoined the cast of Here Lies Love as Ninoy Aquino at the Seattle Repertory Theater.[15]
In 2018, Ricamora starred in the premiere of David Henry Hwang's Soft Power as Xue Xing at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and subsequently received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.[16]
Ricamora is playing Abraham Lincoln (billed as "Mary's Husband"), opposite Cole Escola's Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!, a dark comedy debuting at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York in early 2024.