Actor Denis O'Hare lands a promising new pilot, proving once more that "out" is not a career ender

Out actor Denis O'Hare is one of the most versatile character actors working today, and also one of the busiest. Currently featured as Travis March, the campaign manager of Rob Lowe in Brothers & Sisters, he's just been cast as one of the leads in the CBS pilot The Tower, as the editor of a Chicago newspaper. (It sounds like a modern Lou Grant, but without the hippie photographer and the bleeding heart reporter who "cares too much".)

Since winning the Tony Award in 2003 for the HOT NAKED GUYS PRETENDING TO SHOWER baseball drama Take Me Out, he's had diverse roles in such high profile projects as A Mighty Heart, Michael Clayton, and Charlie Wilson's War. He's also co-starring in the much anticipated biopic Milk, and the even more anticipated (by me, at least) Cloverfield-ish zombie movie Quarantine.

Denis has been out since high school and yet, defying conventions, has managed to stay a sought-after working actor. Here's hoping the new pilot is picked up, and we get to see more of this multi-talented actor.