Born in Detroit, MI; educated at North Carolina School of the Arts. Gifted stage actor [Broadway credits include Equus (understudy & replacement for Peter Firth, 1975), A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1976), and A Few Good Men (1989-1991)] whose bravura performance in the title role of AMADEUS (1984) led to similarly challenging roles in smaller films, notably SLAMDANCE (1987) and DOMINICK AND EUGENE (1988). Other notable screen credits include ANIMAL HOUSE and SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 (both 1978), THOSE LIPS, THOSE EYES (1980), ECHO PARK (1986), SHADOWMAN (1988), PARENTHOOD (1989), BLACK RAINBOW (1990), BLIZHNIJ KRUG / THE INNER CIRCLE (1991, aka THE PROJECTIONIST), FEARLESS (1993), MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1994), WINGS OF COURAGE (1995), THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME I & II (1996 & 2002, voice of Quasimodo), STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006), and JUMPER (scheduled for 2008). He produced 2004's A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, which was directed by Michael Mayer and featured Sissy Spacek, Colin Farrell and Robin Penn Wright. In 2006, Hulce was lead producer on Broadway of the Tony®-winning musical Spring Awakening, a startling theatrical fusion that couples contemporary rock (songs by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater) with Teutonic teen-angst (Frank Wedekind's 1891 play). Since the mid-1990s, he has lived in Seattle, WA with his wife and daughter.  Nominated for Actor 1984: AMADEUS 1 nomination