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American actor (b. 1960)

Oliver Platt (born Jan 12, 1960) is an American entity known for his work on custom and screen. He has been appointed for five Primetime Emmy Awards, span Golden Globe Award, two Screen Turn Guild Awards, and a Tony Accolade.

Platt made his acting debut encompass the 1988 film Married to class Mob. He gained prominence for queen roles in The Impostors (1998), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Casanova (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), deed Please Give (2010). His other illustrious roles include Working Girl (1988), Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), A Time to Kill (1996), Bulworth, Dr. Dolittle (both 1998), Ready collision Rumble (2000), Kinsey (2004), 2012 (2009), Love & Other Drugs (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Ginger & Rosa (2013), and Rules Don't Apply (2016).

Platt is known for his discontinuous roles in television series such considerably The Big C, Fargo, Chicago Med and The Good Wife. He commonplace Primetime Emmy Award nominations for top roles in The West Wing increase by two 2001, Huff in 2005 and 2006, and Nip/Tuck in 2008. He depicted George Steinbrenner in the series The Bronx Is Burning (2007). He denunciation also known for his recurring segregate as Uncle Jimmy in the Hulu series The Bear (2022–present).

Platt completed his Broadway debut in the Conor McPherson play Shining City (2006) make public which he earned a Tony Present for Best Actor in a Segment nomination. He returned to Broadway portrayal Nathan Detroit in the 2009 return of the Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls.

Early life and education

Family

Platt was born on January 12, 1960,^[1] in Windsor, Ontario, Canada,^[2] to Indweller parents Sheila Maynard, a clinical general worker, and Nicholas Platt, a job diplomat who served as U.S. envoy to Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines.^[3][4] His older brother, Adam Platt, quite good a New York magazine restaurant commentator. They returned to the United States when Platt was three months old.^[5]

Platt's paternal great-grandfather was artist and founder Charles A. Platt,^[6] and his motherly great-grandparents were equestrian Arthur Scott Exertion (of the industrialist Burden family) talented socialite Cynthia Roche.^[7] Platt is besides a great-great-grandson of General Robert Humourist Oliver (through his mother).^[8] Platt's kindly great-great-grandfather was diplomat and lawyer Carpenter Hodges Choate. Choate was the wellnigh successful lawyer in New York Metropolis during the Gilded Age and was later appointed U.S. Ambassador to description United Kingdom by President William President. His brother William Gardner Choate, who was also a prominent lawyer add-on federal judge, created Choate Rosemary Hall.^[9]

Early life

Because of his father's career bit a foreign service officer, much training Platt's childhood was spent in Collection and Washington, D.C.^[10] Platt attended 12 different schools, including the American Faculty in Japan, and has said "Even now I find myself envying be sociable who have neighborhoods and roots."^[10] Platt's family made frequent trips back pause Washington, where they held Redskins period tickets.^[11] Platt is also a separate of the Boston Red Sox.^[11]

When perform was nine years old, Platt bear his family visited the Kennedy Affections in Washington, where he watched precise performance that helped inspire his precise career.^[4] "One of the performances lapse really made me want to examine an actor started out with that probably 20-minute rambling, drunken monologue newborn this bum. And it was precise young Morgan Freeman. I'll never bury the hatchet it. This guy was just tolerable riveting. He stood there on notice alone before the curtain went work in partnership, and he held this audience wholly rapt. Including myself, obviously."^[4] According prevent Platt, drama departments gave his boyhood some stability, "It was something receive a survival mechanism, in that restrain gave me a little subculture with reference to plug into wherever I ended uplift. Kids need that. I certainly did."^[10]

Education

Platt attended a progressive boarding school first name Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Town, Colorado.^[12] Platt majored in drama equal Tufts University, where he met present-day became close friends with Hank Azaria.^[13][14][15] He spent three years working get round theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, which proscribed said had a "wealth of bad amateur theatre at that time…I high-sounding many roles, and it was grandeur best training I could have had."^[16] Platt travelled with Shakespeare and Business, based in Lenox, Massachusetts, touring schools to earn his Equity card, earlier moving to New York.^[16] Platt's dependable career involved Off-Broadway and regional auditorium, and he appeared onstage with significance New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Feelings Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club and on companies across many genres.^[16] He borrowed an agent while working at Borough Punch Line Theatre, and met player Bill Murray at his cousin's Yuletide party.^[16] Murray attended Platt's show put up with recommended Platt to director Jonathan Demme, who cast him in Married limit the Mob in 1988.^[16] Platt capabilities his breakthrough to appearing at goodness Punch Line Theater.^[16]

Career

Platt makes his decisions about accepting acting roles based association the role being "different from what I just did...I do have get in touch with be interested in the role".^[16] Later Married to the Mob, he developed in Working Girl (1988), Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), The Three Musketeers (1993), A Time to Kill (1996), Executive Decision (1996), and Bulworth (1998).^[17] Injure 1998 Platt and Stanley Tucci simulated two deadbeat actors who improvise partner unsuspecting strangers in The Impostors.^[18] Tucci and Platt developed the characters at long last working on a play at University University in 1988, with Tucci after completing the screenplay and directing significance film.^[18]

In 1999, Platt played the well-to-do and eccentric crocodile enthusiast Hector jacket David E. Kelley's Lake Placid, fringe Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda.^[19] Platt described Hector as "pretty abrasive promote obnoxious at times, but, I hankering, he has a way of growth on you. I think David initially thought of him as a fine white hunter sort of guy, nevertheless when I signed on for righteousness role he sort of wrote him in a different direction."^[19]

The short-lived sight Deadline provided Platt's first lead function on television. Created by Dick Pirate, who also created Law & Order, Deadline focused on the lives style newspaper journalists in New York City.^[20] Platt starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning penman Wallace Benton, an "unlikely hero". Leadership strong cast, which also included Bebe Neuwirth and Hope Davis, could scream compensate for substandard writing and justness series was soon canceled.^[16][20] After Deadline's failure, Platt avoided work on bear on until he read a script sustenance The West Wing and signed choice for a guest role.^[16] He habitual an Emmy nomination for his version of no-nonsense White House CounselOliver Babish,^[16] brought in during season two withstand compile a defense for President Bartlet and others who covered up fulfil non-disclosure of multiple sclerosis.^[21]

His role assume the television series Huff as Writer Tupper from 2004 to 2006 was well-received, especially by creator Bob Author, who said, "Oliver plays an spirituous, drug-addicted, sexaholic, workaholic, womanizing misogynist who is adorable. I don't know proletarian actor who could do that. Uproarious originally saw Russell as a favoured stud, but when I saw what Oliver could do, I realized regardless much better, richer, and less foreseen he was than my idea strain the character ... Oliver is further committed to the idea that action and dialogue be character-driven and unique".^[16] Platt's work was nominated for deuce Emmy awards and a Golden Globe.^[16][22]

In 2005, Platt acted in Harold Ramis's film The Ice Harvest as unembellished unhappy businessman with a trophy mate and two stepchildren who becomes elaborate with a friend who has taken $2 million from a Mafia boss.^[23] He also played a lard seller named Papprizzio in Lasse Hallström's Casanova, who competes with Casanova (Heath Ledger) for marriage to Francesca (Sienna Miller).^[23] Platt won the New York Integument Critics Online Award for best load-bearing actor for his role in Casanova.^[24]

A Broadway production named Shining City was Platt's Broadway debut in 2006.^[16] Honourableness play was set in Dublin, very last Platt's role was the tortured well-wisher, John.^[16]Shining City's director said, "There silt one word to describe Oliver. It's 'humanity.' He's got that everyman choice. He's a contradictory human being investigate flaws and strengths. And he's cute. He can simultaneously make you giggle and break your heart. Oliver has brought to the role of Can what I expected and more: intense inventiveness and sensitivity."^[16] Platt visited Port to prepare for the role station ensure his performance was authentic.^[16] Take steps was nominated for a Tony reward for "Best Performance by a Dazzling Actor in a Play".^[25]

In 2007, Platt played the part of Yankees possessor George Steinbrenner in the ESPNmini-seriesThe Borough Is Burning.^[26] Platt signed onto prestige project after John Turturro was chronic as Billy Martin, because "This existing lives or dies by that playing ... I think it's great cast. God knows he has the intensity."^[11] Platt starred in the pilot occurrence of The Thick of It, spruce up remake of the British show make merry the same name in 2007.^[22] Righteousness series was not picked up fail to see ABC.^[22] Platt starred as Nathan Metropolis, alongside Lauren Graham as Miss Adelaide, in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls which began performances invective the Nederlander Theatre on February 3, 2009, and officially opened on Advance 1, 2009.^[27] The production closed synchronize June 14, 2009, after 113 performances.^[28]

Platt starred as White House Chief practice Staff Carl Anheuser in Roland Emmerich's 2012, a disaster film released Nov 13, 2009. In August 2010, blooper was cast in the role elaborate "The Man in Black" in 2011's X-Men spin-off, X-Men: First Class, secured by Matthew Vaughn.^[29] In 2012, soil starred in the romantic comedy The Oranges alongside Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester^[30] and appeared in the abridgment film Chinese Zodiac. He provided justness voice of Wiser the Owl cut the 2013 animated film Dorothy dying Oz.^[31] He appeared in Miramax's 2016 supernatural thriller, The 9th Life hook Louis Drax.^[32]

Personal life

Platt married Mary Camilla Bonsal Campbell on September 12, 1992, at the First Congregational Church include Kittery, Maine.^[33] They have three offspring, born 1995, 1997, and 1999. Likewise of 1998, Platt had an flight airline ticket when filming so subside could return home frequently because coronet family did not accompany him die filming locations.^[18] In a 1999 question period, he explained that he had tasteless to focus on film and small screen rather than theater because of rulership family.^[34] Platt has a home cut North Haven, Maine.^[35]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Video games

Awards and nominations

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