- Won the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Tony Award for "The Humans" on June 12, 2016.
- Married to actress Constance Shulman who plays inmate Yoga Jones in Orange Is the New Black (2013).
- He is a graduate of Williamsville North High School.
- Received a Special Drama Desk Award in 2011 "for his versatile and finely nuanced performances over the past thirty-five years, and for his exceptional work this season in Tigers Be Still, A Small Fire and The Dream of the Burning Boy".
- Was the recipient of a special honorary Obie Award in 2006 for "sustained excellence of performance."
- Won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play "The Humans".
- Was invited into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in July 2022.
- Father with wife Constance Shulman of a son Ephraim Birney born August 7, 1996 and a daughter Gus Birney born July 27, 1999.
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