Tony Goldwyn

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Tony Goldwyn

Birth name	Anthony Howard Goldwyn
Born	May 20, 1960 Los Angeles, California
Notable roles	Carl Bruner in Ghost Kendall Dobbs in Designing Women Tarzan in Tarzan (1999 film)

Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor and director. He may be best remembered as the villain Carl Bruner from the feature film Ghost, who had his friend and co-worker Sam Wheat (played by Patrick Swayze) killed.

1 Biography
2 Selected filmography
3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Born in Los Angeles, California, Tony Goldwyn is the grandson of movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn and film actress Frances Howard. Tony attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (where he received his B.F.A), and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He is married to production designer Jane Musky and the couple has two daughters.

[edit] Career

He is well-known for his turn on the comedy series, Designing Women in which he played a young interior designer named Kendall Dobbs who was HIV positive, and asked the women of Sugarbakers to design his funeral.

In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11.

Also a stage actor, he has appeared twice in Off-Broadway shows at Second Stage Theatre and on Broadway at Circle in The Square Theatre. At Second Stage he appeared in Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels (1992) alongside Kevin Bacon and Julie White. Most recently, in the summer of 2006 at Second Stage Theatre he starred opposite Kate Burton in another Rebeck play, The Water's Edge.

[edit] Recent events

Tony recently appeared in the episode "Brother's Keeper" of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, playing Detective Robert Goren's estranged older brother, Frank.