Irwin, Bill, 1950-

William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, choreographer, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He also worked as a choreographer on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography in 1989 for Largely New York. He is also known as Mr. Noodle on the Sesame Street segment Elmo's World, and he appeared in the Sesame Street film short Does Air Move Things? Irwin has made a number of appearances on film, including Stepping Out (1991), Hot Shots! (1991), How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rachel Getting Married (2008), and the Christopher Nolan films Interstellar (2014) and The Odyssey (2026). On television, he recurred as Dr. Peter Lindstrom on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as "The Dick & Jane Killer" on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. From 2017 to 2019, he appeared as Cary Loudermilk on the FX television series Legion.