[2] He appeared as the title character in a 1976 production of Shakespeare's Henry V, opposite Meryl Streep as his love interest.
Though best known for his live theatre performances, such as those on Broadway and the New York Shakespeare Festival, he also appeared in the 1978 film The Betsy and on television in the 1975 short-lived series Beacon Hill as Brian Mallory, the scheming Irish chauffeur.
[4] He landed his first significant Broadway role in 1974 as Ken, the lobotomized motorcyclist, in The National Health by Peter Nichols.
(co-starring Geraldine Fitzgerald, Swoosie Kurtz and Teresa Wright) and The Glass Menagerie as the "Gentleman Caller" (along with Maureen Stapleton, Pamela Payton-Wright and Rip Torn).
[citation needed] He portrayed Barry Copley in the Williamstown Theater Festival's 1973 production of 'The Changing Room', sharing the stage with John Lithgow.
[1][10] In 1986, Rudd retired from acting to raise his children,[4] moving his family from Los Angeles to his Greenwich, Connecticut near his native Massachusetts.
"Paul Rudd makes a taut-nerved Romeo, his handsome face either tense with pain or almost consciously relaxed and sunny.