Oliver Platt
Oliver Platt | |
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Born | Windsor, Ontario, Canada | January 12, 1960
Nationality | American |
Education | Tufts University |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1985–present |
Spouse |
Camilla Campbell (m. 1992) |
Children | 3 |
Parent |
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Relatives | Adam Platt (brother) |
Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960
Platt made his acting debut in the 1988 film
Platt is known for his recurring roles in television series such as
Platt made his
Family and early life
Family
Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada,[2] to American parents Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker, and Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines.[3][4] His older brother, Adam Platt, is a New York magazine restaurant critic. They returned to the United States when Platt was three months old.[5]
Platt's paternal great-grandfather was artist and architect Charles A. Platt,[6] and his maternal great-grandparents were equestrian Arthur Scott Burden (of the industrialist Burden family) and socialite Cynthia Roche.[7] Platt is also a great-great-grandson of General Robert Shaw Oliver (through his mother).[8]
Platt's paternal great great-grandfather was diplomat and lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate. Choate was the most successful lawyer in New York City during the Gilded Age and was later appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom by President William McKinley. His brother William Gardner Choate, who was also a prominent lawyer and federal judge, created Choate Rosemary Hall.[9]
Early life
Because of his father's career as a foreign service officer, much of Platt's childhood was spent in Asia and Washington, D.C.[10] Platt attended twelve different schools, including the American School in Japan, and has said "Even now I find myself envying people who have neighborhoods and roots."[10] Platt's family made frequent trips back to Washington, where they held Redskins season tickets.[11] Platt is also a fan of the Boston Red Sox.[11]
When he was nine years old, Platt and his family visited the
Education
Platt attended a progressive boarding school named Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado.[12]
Platt majored in drama at
Career
Platt makes his decisions about accepting acting roles based on the role being "different from what I just did...I do have to be interested in the role".[16] After Married to the Mob, he appeared in Working Girl (1988), Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), The Three Musketeers (1993), A Time to Kill (1996), Executive Decision (1996), and Bulworth (1998).[17] In 1998 Platt and Stanley Tucci played two deadbeat actors who improvise with unsuspecting strangers in The Impostors.[18] Tucci and Platt developed the characters while working on a play at Yale University in 1988, with Tucci later completing the screenplay and directing the film.[18]
In 1999, Platt played the wealthy and eccentric
The short-lived drama
His role in the television series
In 2005, Platt acted in
A Broadway production named
In 2007, Platt played the part of
Platt starred as Nathan Detroit, alongside
Platt starred as White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser in Roland Emmerich's 2012, a disaster film released November 13, 2009.
In August 2010, he was cast in the role of "The Man in Black" in 2011's X-Men spin-off,
Personal life
Platt married Mary Camilla Bonsal Campbell on September 12, 1992, at the First Congregational Church in Kittery, Maine.[33] They have three children, born 1995, 1997, and 1999. As of 1998, Platt had an open airline ticket when filming so he could return home frequently because his family did not accompany him to filming locations.[18] In a 1999 interview, he explained that he had chosen to focus on film and television rather than theater because of his family.[34]
Platt has a home in North Haven, Maine.[35]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1988 | Married to the Mob | FBI Agent Ed Benitez | |
Working Girl | Lutz | ||
1989 | Crusoe | Mr. Newby | |
1990 | Flatliners | Randy Steckle | |
Postcards from the Edge | Neil Bleene | ||
1992 | Beethoven | Harvey | |
Diggstown | Daniel Patrick O'Shannon 'Fitz' Fitzpatrick | ||
1993 | The Temp | Hartsell | |
Indecent Proposal | Jeremy | ||
Benny & Joon | Eric | ||
The Three Musketeers | Porthos | ||
1995 | Tall Tale | Paul Bunyan | |
Funny Bones | Tommy Fawkes | ||
The Infiltrator | Yaron Svoray | ||
1996 | Executive Decision | Dennis Cahill | |
A Time to Kill | Harry Rex Vonner | ||
1998 | Dangerous Beauty | Maffio Venier | |
Bulworth | Dennis Murphy | ||
The Impostors | Maurice | ||
Dr. Dolittle | Dr. Mark Weller | ||
Simon Birch | Ben Goodrich | ||
1999 | Lake Placid | Hector Cyr | |
Three to Tango | Peter Steinberg | ||
Bicentennial Man | Rupert Burns | ||
CinderElmo | Fairy Godperson | ||
2000 | Ready to Rumble | Jimmy 'The King' King | |
Gun Shy | Fulvio Nesstra | ||
2001 | Don't Say a Word | Dr. Louis Sachs | |
2002 | Liberty Stands Still | Victor Wallace | |
Ash Wednesday | Moran | ||
Zig Zag | Mr.Walters / The Toad | ||
2003 | Pieces of April | Jim Burns | |
Hope Springs | Doug Reed | ||
2004 | Kinsey | Herman B Wells | |
2005 | The Ice Harvest | Pete Van Heuten | |
Casanova | Paprizzio | ||
2007 | The Ten | Marc Jacobson | |
Martian Child | Jeff | ||
2008 | Frost/Nixon | Bob Zelnick
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2009 | Wonder Woman | Hades (voice) | Direct-to-DVD |
Year One | High Priest | ||
2012 | Carl Anheuser | ||
2010 | Please Give | Alex | |
Love & Other Drugs | Bruce Jackson | ||
Letters to Juliet | Bobby | Uncredited | |
2011 | X-Men: First Class | Man In Black Suit | |
2012 | The Oranges | Terry Ostroff | |
Chinese Zodiac
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Lawrence | ||
Ginger & Rosa | Activist | ||
2013 | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Wiser The Owl (voice) | |
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | Lord Minister of The Right Abe (voice) | ||
Lucky Them | Giles | ||
2014 | Chef | Ramsey Michel | |
Kill the Messenger | Jerome Ceppos | ||
Cut Bank | Joe Barrett | ||
A Merry Friggin' Christmas | Hobo Santa | ||
2015 | Frank and Cindy | Frank Garcia | |
One More Time | Alan Sternberg | ||
2016 | The Cleanse | Ken Roberts | |
The Ticket | Bob | ||
The 9th Life of Louis Drax | Dr. Perez | ||
Shut In | Dr. Wilson | ||
Rules Don't Apply | Forester | ||
2017 | Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | Max Gaines | |
2020 | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | The Voice (voice) | |
2024 | Babes | TBA |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | The Equalizer | Norm Jameson | Episode: "In the Money" |
1988 | Miami Vice | 'Speed' Stiles | Episode: "Baseballs of Death" |
1990 | Wiseguy | Unknown | Episode: "Changes Houses" |
1995 | The Infiltrator | Yaron | Television movie |
2000–2001 | Deadline | Wallace Benton | 13 episodes |
2001–2005 | The West Wing | Oliver Babish | 8 episodes |
2003 | Queens Supreme | Judge Jack Moran | 13 episodes |
2004–2006 | Huff | Russell Tupper | 25 episodes |
2007–2008 | Nip/Tuck | Freddy Prune | 4 episodes |
2007 | The Thick of It | Malcolm Tucker | Unsold TV pilot |
The Bronx Is Burning | George Steinbrenner | 8 episodes | |
2009–2011 | Bored to Death | Richard Antrem | 6 episodes |
2010–2013 | The Big C | Paul Jamison | 40 episodes |
2012–2018 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 11 episodes |
2014 | Fargo | Stavros Milos | 5 episodes |
2014–2017 | Sofia the First | Everburn (voice) | 2 episodes |
2015–2016 | Chicago P.D. | Dr. Daniel Charles | 9 episodes |
2015–2023 | Chicago Fire | 8 episodes | |
2015–present | Chicago Med | 163 episodes | |
2015 | The Good Wife | R.D. | 3 episodes |
Bessie | Carl Van Vechten | Television movie | |
2015–2017 | Modern Family
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Martin | 2 episodes |
2016 | American Dad! | Documentary Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Next of Pin" |
2017 | Chicago Justice | Dr. Daniel Charles | 2 episodes |
2022–present | The Bear | Uncle Jimmy | 8 episodes |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Venue |
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2006 | Shining City | John | Biltmore Theatre, Broadway |
2009 | Guys and Dolls | Nathan Detroit | Nederlander Theatre, Broadway |
Video games
Year | Title | Role |
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2001 | SSX Tricky | Luther-Dwayne Grady |
2006 | Scarface: The World Is Yours |
Awards and nominations
References
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… actor Oliver Platt in 1960 (age 60)
- ^ Platt, speaking to brother Adam Platt in Platt, Adam (February 19, 2009). "The Brothers Platt". New York. Vox Media. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020.
Our father joined the Foreign Service at a young age, which meant that we grew up all over the place. You were born in Washington, D.C. Our younger brother, Nick, who's now a prosperous business executive, was born in Hong Kong. I was born in Windsor, Ontario, which is right across from Detroit, when our father was stamping visas there, on the U.S.-Canada border.
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