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Bill Brochtrup (born March 7, 1963) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for playing "P. A. A. John Irvin", the gay administrative aide, on NYPD Blue.

Brochtrup was born in Los Angeles and raised in Tacoma, Washington, attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

His theatre credits include David Marshall Grant’s Snakebit (Off-Broadway at the Century Center and in Los Angeles at the Coast Playhouse), Richard Kramer’s Theater District (Boston and LA), Jonathan Tolins’s If Memory Serves (Pasadena Playhouse), James Duff’s A Quarrel of Sparrows, Peter Hunt’s production of Death Takes a Holiday, and Joe Pintauro’s Raft of the Medusa. He has appeared in Los Angeles productions of Marivaux (The Triumph of Love), Strindberg (A Dream Play), and D. H. Lawrence (The Fox), and most recently in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing at South Coast Repertory, and Sinan Unel’s epic Pera Palas a co-production of the Theatre @ Boston Court and the Antaeus Company, of which he is a member.

He can be seen in the feature films Duck, Ravenous, Man of the Year, and Space Marines, the television movies Betrayed and Two Small Voices.

He has appeared on television shows as varied as Without a Trace, The Wild Thornberrys (as the voice of a dolphin), and Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown.

He is a frequent guest host of the PBS newsmagazine In The Life, and has been a series regular on three Steven Bochco shows, CBS sit-com Public Morals, ABC drama Total Security, and seven seasons on NYPD Blue.

He has written for Out Magazine and the best-selling book of essays "I Love You, Mom!", hosted AIDS Walks around the country, supports animal rescue organizations like the SPCA and has traveled the Middle East, Far East, Mediterranean, and Balkans meeting servicemen and women during Handshake Tours for the USO.

• Bill Brochtrup at the Internet Movie Database

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