Biography

Ron Raines, a 2012 Tony and Grammy Award nominee for the acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies which he starred in opposite Bernadette Peters. Ron has also starred on Broadway as Daddy Warbucks in Annie with Faith Prince, Joseph Pulitzer in Newsies, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat, and Nick Longworth in Teddy & Alice. Ron has also delighted audiences around the country in A Little Night Music opposite Leslie Uggams, Amy Irving, Christine Ebersole, and Cleo Laine;  The Unsinkable Molly Brown opposite Debbie Reynolds, Can Can opposite Chita Rivera, Merry Widow with Roberta Peters, South Pacific, Rose Marie, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Side by Side by Sondheim,Guys and Dolls, Candide, Regina and Man of LaMancha which he did at the Covent Garden Festival in London and recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios. He has been a soloist with over 60 major American and international orchestras, including the Boston Pops with John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Marvin Hamlisch, the Philly Pops with Peter Nero, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, and the summer of 2018 with Gewandhaus  of  Leipzig, Germany. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and London’s Palladium and their Royal Festival Hall. He has appeared on four PBS “Great Performances,” and has recorded numerous cast albums as well as two solo CDs on the Jay Records label. Born in Texas City, Texas and raised throughout East Texas, Ron graduated from Oklahoma City University and later attended The Juilliard School. He was a three-time Emmy nominee for his role as the nefarious Alan Spaulding on CBS’s longest running daytime drama Guiding Light. Ron has appeared on CBS prime time in The Good Wife, Elementary, Person of Interest.
He lives in New York City with his wife Dona and daughter Charlotte.
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Revised October 2018