Who was the absent father in the HBO film Gey Gardens?
Grey Gardens (2009 film) Grey Gardens is an HBO film about the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale/"Little Edie", played by Drew Barrymore, and her mother Edith Ewing Bouvier/"Big Edie", played by Jessica Lange. Co-stars include Jeanne Tripplehorn as Jacqueline Kennedy (Little Edie's cousin) and Ken Howard as Phelan Beale (Little Edie's father). The film, directed by Michael Sucsy and co-written by Sucsy and Patricia Rozema, flashes back and forth between various events and dates ranging from Little Edie as a young débutante in 1936 moving with her mother to their Grey Gardens estate through the filming and premiere of the actual 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens".
B. D. Wong Bradley Darryl "BD" Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor. Wong won a Tony Award for his performance as Song Liling in "M. Butterfly", becoming the only actor in Broadway history to receive the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role. He has since gained more notability for playing the roles on "", Father Ray Mukada on "Oz", Dr. John Lee on "Awake", Dr. Henry Wu in the first "Jurassic Park" film as well as the fourth entry, "Jurassic World", and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme in the film "Seven Years in Tibet". As of August 13, 2017, Wong is the host of the new HLN medical documentary series "Something's Killing Me With BD Wong".