Who

Cantone is the campy, over-the-top actor who became the patron saint of fag hags everywhere thanks to his role as a wedding planner on Sex and the City.

Backstory

Cantone grew up as a high school theater geek in Boston, and started doing stand-up comedy after moving to the city in the early 1980s. His small-screen debut came several years later when he was tapped to host the zany local kids show Steampipe Alley in the late '80s. After the show ended in 1993, Cantone returned to the comedy circuit, took up small film roles (like in 1994's Quiz Show), and appeared off-Broadway, most notably in Terrence McNally's Love! Valor! Compassion! (he replaced Nathan Lane), The Tempest, and Assassins.

In 2001, Michael Patrick King picked him for the role of Kristin Davis' campy confidante Anthony Marentino on Sex and the City. While his four-year stint on the show has been Cantone's most high-profile role to date, he's been busy since. He lent his voice to the 2007 animated flick Surf's Up and appeared as a flamboyant hairdresser on the ABC show Men in Trees. He's also maintained a busy stage career, most recently in his Tony-nominated one-man show, Laugh Whore, which was turned into a Showtime special in 2005. He does the occasional voiceover job, too: Those are his dulcet tones on Sunsilk's "hairapy" commercials.

Personal

Since the early '90s, he's been involved with composer Jerry Dixon, who wrote the music for Cantone's show Laugh Whore. They live together in Chelsea.