Mandy Patinkin

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Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a renowned tenor.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Theater, film, TV, and singing career 1.3 Awards 1.4 Personal life 2 Filmography 2.1 Film 2.2 Television 2.2.1 Television commercials 3 Stage 3.1 Broadway 3.2 Other Theater 4 Discography 5 Trivia 6 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Patinkin was born in Chicago, Illinois of Jewish heritage.

He is a cousin of Mark Patinkin, author and nationally-syndicated columnist for the Providence Journal, and Jason "Dink" Patinkin, President of Columbia University's EarthCo.

Patinkin attended South Shore High School, Kenwood Academy (1970 graduate), University of Kansas, and Juilliard School of Drama. At Juilliard he was a classmate of Kelsey Grammer. When the producers of Cheers were auditioning for the role of Dr Frasier Crane, Patinkin was the one who put Grammer's name forward.

[edit] Theater, film, TV, and singing career

His initial success came in musical theater when he landed the part of Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979. Patinkin went on to win a Tony Award for the role as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical).

He then moved to film, playing a number of parts in movies such as Yentl and Ragtime.

He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor (Musical).

He is also well-known for playing Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's 1987 The Princess Bride, especially for saying the arguably most famous line from the movie: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Over the next decade he continued to appear in various movies, such as Dick Tracy and Alien Nation.

On Broadway over the next decade he appeared in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden for 706 performances.

He also released two solo albums, called Mandy Patinkin and Dress Casual.

In 1994, he burst onto the small screen, playing the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope and promptly won an Emmy Award. However, despite the award and the ratings success of the show, Patinkin left the show part way through the second season, as he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife.[1]

Since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has taken parts in a number of films.

However, he has mostly performed as a singer, releasing three more albums.

In 1998 he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic, and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The stage production of Mamaloshen was performed on and off–Broadway, and has toured throughout the country. The recording of Mamaloshen won the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s equivalent of the Grammy Award).

He returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival's The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor (Musical).

Recently he has also been seen in the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me as Rube Sofer.

In 2004, he played a 6–week engagement of his 1–man concert at the Off–Broadway complex Dodger Stages.

In September 2005, he started his role as Jason Gideon, an experienced profiler just coming back to work after a series of nervous breakdowns, the result of his partner's death, in the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

His show Criminal Minds will air in the slot immediately after the 2007 Super Bowl.[2]

[edit] Awards

• 1984 — Nominated Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, for "Yentl"
• 1987 — Won CableACE Award, Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special, for "Sunday in the Park with George"
• 1990 — Nominated Saturn Award, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, Best Supporting Actor, for "Alien Nation"
• 1995 — Won Emmy, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for "Chicago Hope"
• 1995 — Nominated Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Drama, for "Chicago Hope"
• 1995 — Nominated Screen Actors Guild Award, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, for "Chicago Hope"
• 1996 — Nominated Emmy, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, for The Larry Sanders Show, for episode "Eight," for playing himself
• 1999 — Nominated Emmy, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for Chicago Hope, for playing "Dr. Jeffrey Geiger," for episode "Curing Cancer"
• 2003 — Nominated (shared) DVD Exclusive Award, Best Original Song in a DVD, Premiere Movie, for "Run Ronnie Run", for the song "How High the Mountain"

[edit] Personal life

Patinkin married actress and writer Kathryn Grody in 1980; they have two sons, Isaac and Gideon.

He suffered from keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease, in the mid-1990s. This led to two corneal transplants; his right cornea in 1997, and his left in 1998.

He also was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in 2004. He celebrated his first year of recovery by doing a 280-mile charity bike ride with his son, Isaac — the Arava Institute Hazon Israel Ride: Cycling for Peace, Partnership & Environmental Protection. He subsequently joined the boards of both the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and Hazon.

Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities.

He sings in Yiddish, which he has often sung in concert, as featured in his album "Mamaloshen".

He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album, by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, and Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations, by his mother, Doralee Patinkin Rubin.

Patinkin contributed to the children's book, Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again: A Musical Storybook inspired by Christopher Reeve, prior to Christopher and Dana Reeve's deaths. The award winning book, published in 2005, benefits the Christopher Reeve Foundation and includes an audio CD to with Mandy Patinkin singing and reading the story as well as Dana Reeve and Bernadette Peters singing. The Helpful Doo-its Project

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Film

• The Big Fix (1978) — pool man
• French Postcards (1979) — Sayyid
• Last Embrace (1979) — first commuter
• Night of the Juggler (1980) — Allesandro the cabbie
• Ragtime (1981) — Tateh
• Yentl (1983) — Avigdor
• Daniel (1983) — Paul Isaacson
• Maxie (1985) — Nick
• Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986) (voice: English version) — Louis
• The Princess Bride (1987) — Inigo Montoya
• Alien Nation (1988) — Detective Samuel 'George' Francisco
• The House on Carroll Street (1988) — Ray Salwen
• Dick Tracy (1990) — 88 Keys
• True Colors (1991) — John Palmeri
• Impromptu (1991) — Alfred De Musset
• The Doctor (1991) — Dr. Murray Kaplan
• The Music of Chance (1993) — Jim Nashe
• Life with Mikey (1993) — irate man
• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) — Brother Daniel
• The Hunchback (1997) — Quasimodo
• Lulu On The Bridge (1998) — Philip Kleinman
• Men with Guns (1998) — Andrew
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) — Huxley
• Piñero (2001) — Joseph Papp
• Run Ronnie Run (2002) — as himself, portraying Ronnie Dobbs, in an in-movie stage performance
• The Choking Man (2005); Rick
• Everyone's Hero (2006) (voice) — Stanley Irving

[edit] Television

• That Thing on ABC — (1978), performer
• Charleston — (1979), Beaudine Croft
• Sunday in the Park with George — (1986), Georges Seurat/George
• Chicago Hope — Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Emmy Award, 1994-95)
• Dead Like Me — Rube John Sofer
• Law and Order — Jewelry store customer in "Absentia" (Season 13, episode 290)
• The Simpsons — Hugh Parkfield in "Lisa's Wedding" (Season 6, episode 619)
• Touched By An Angel — Satan in Netherlands (single-episode guest star) (Season 7, episode 23)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
• Broken Glass (1996) — Dr. Harry Hyman
• Strange Justice (1999) — Kenneth Duberstein
• NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 (2004) — Al Cummings
• Criminal Minds — (2005), Jason Gideon

[edit] Television commercials

• 7 Up (1970)
• Frosted Mini-Wheats (1971) (the first Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats commercial.)
• Procrit (approx. 2001)
• Crestor (2005)

[edit] Stage

[edit] Broadway

• Evita (1979) — Che (Tony Award, 1980)
• Sunday in the Park with George (1984) — George (Tony Award Nominee, 1984)
• Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual (1989)
• The Secret Garden (1991) — Archibald Craven
• Falsettos (1993) — Marvin (Replacement)
• Sunday in the Park with George (Tenth Anniversary Concert) (1994) — George
• Mandy Patinkin in Concert (1997)
• Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Mamaloshen (1998)
• The Wild Party (2000) — Burrs (Tony Award Nominee, 2000)
• Celebrating Sondheim

[edit] Other Theater

• Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theater Festival)
• Henry IV, Part I
• Winters Tale
• The Knife
• Leave It to Beaver is Dead
• Trelawny of the Wells (1975) — Mr. Arthur Gower
• Hamlet (1975-76) — Fortinbras, Player King
• Rebel Woman
• The Shadow Box (1977) — Mark
• The Split and Savages

[edit] Discography

• Evita (1978)
• Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
• Mandy Patinkin (1989)
• Dress Casual (1990)
• The Secret Garden (1991)
• Experiment (1994)
• Oscar & Steve (1995)
• Mamaloshen (1998)
• The Wild Party (2000)
• Kidults (2001)
• Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim (2002)

Patinkin can also be heard in Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns, the Placido Domingo-starring studio cast recording of Man of La Mancha (1996), the Leonard Bernstein compilation Leonard Bernstein's New York (1996), Madonna's album I'm Breathless (1990), the studio cast recording of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific (1986), and the concert version of Sondheim´s Follies in Follies in Concert (1985).

[edit] Trivia

• Forbidden Broadway makes fun of his Broadway style on their second album with the parody "Somewhat Overindulgent," and again on their fifth with "Super-Frantic, Hyper-Active, Self-Indulgent, Mandy."

• On a season 2 episode of Mr. Show entitled If You're Going To Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going to Have Some Rat Feces in There, a reference is made to a fictional race horse named "If Mandy Patinkin Was A Horse."

• On E! Network's Starveillance, a claymated Michael Douglas mentions Mandy Patinkin as one of the many women he's had or "never gotten around to" having. He then asks if Mandy Patinkin is a woman, to which everyone informs him Mandy's a man.

[edit] External links

• Mandy Patinkin Bio at CBS — Criminal Minds
• Mandy Patinkin at the Internet Movie Database
• The Princess Bride...On A Bike! In 2005 he reprised his most famous role and line for charity at a New York bike ride.
• The Mandy Patinkin Official website.
• Official website for "Criminal Minds" on CBS Television.