Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer in musical theatre, television, and film. Patinkin made his theatre debut in 1975 starring opposite Meryl Streep in the revival of the comic play Trelawny of the "Wells" at The Public Theater's Shakespeare Festival. He played Che in the first Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (1979), earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, as well as the roles of Georges Seurat/George in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (1984), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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- Name
- Mandy Patinkin
- Birth Name
- Mandel Bruce Patinkin
- Born
- 30 November 1952
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Education
- University of Kansas Juilliard School
- Occupation
- * Actor
- Known for
- Homeland The Princess Bride Sunday in the Park with George
- Nationality
- United States.
- Teachers
- John Houseman.
- Honours
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
- Languages
- English.
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer in musical theatre, television, and film. Patinkin made his theatre debut in 1975 starring opposite Meryl Streep in the revival of the comic play Trelawny of the "Wells" at The Public Theater's Shakespeare Festival. He played Che in the first Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (1979), earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, as well as the roles of Georges Seurat/George in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (1984), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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Languages used include English. The actor received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Biography
Biography
He portrayed Lord Archibald Craven in the original Broadway cast of Lucy Simon's The Secret Garden (1991). Patinkin replaced Michael Rupert as Marvin in William Finn's Falsettos (1993) on Broadway. He starred as Burrs in The Wild Party (2000) and earned a second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Patinkin had starred roles in television shows, playing Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope (1994–2000); SSA Jason Gideon in the CBS crime-drama series Criminal Minds (2005–2007); Saul Berenson in the Showtime drama series Homeland (2011–2020); and Rufus Cotesworth in the Hulu mystery series Death and Other Details (2024). For his work on television he has earned seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Leading Actor in a Drama Series for Chicago Hope in 1995. He was also a main cast member in Dead Like Me (2003–2004) and The Good Fight (2021). His film roles include Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's family adventure film The Princess Bride (1987) and Avigdor in Barbra Streisand's musical epic Yentl (1983) for which he earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination. Other film credits include Ragtime (1981); Maxie (1985); Dick Tracy (1990); True Colors (1991); Impromptu (1991); Wonder (2017); and Life Itself (2018). Patinkin also voiced roles in Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky (2003) and The Wind Rises (2013).
Mandy Patinkin studied at Juilliard School, University of Kansas and Kenwood Academy. Training under John Houseman is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Distinctions recorded are star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Image of Mandy Patinkin on January 13, 2012, outside the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mandy Patinkin • Birth Name — Mandel Bruce Patinkin • Born — 30 November 1952 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Education — University of Kansas Juilliard School • Occupation — * Actor • singer • Years Active — 1974–present • Known for — Homeland The Princess Bride Sunday in the Park with George • Children — 2
Early life and education
Early life and education
Mandel Bruce Patinkin, known as Mandy, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1952, to Doris Lee "Doralee" (née Sinton) (1925–2014), a homemaker, and Lester Don Patinkin (1919–1972), who operated two large Chicago-area metal factories, the People's Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America. Patinkin grew up in an upper-middle-class family, descended from Jewish immigrants from Poland, and was raised in Conservative Judaism, attending religious school daily from the age of seven to 13 or 14 and singing in synagogue choirs, as well as attending Camp Sura in Michigan. His father died of pancreatic cancer in 1972. His mother wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook. Patinkin's cousins include Mark Patinkin, an author and nationally syndicated columnist for The Providence Journal; Sheldon Patinkin of Columbia College Chicago's theater department, a founder of The Second City; Bonnie Miller Rubin, a Chicago Tribune reporter; Laura Patinkin, a New York–based actress; Louis Rosen, a New York–based composer; Stacy Oliver (née Patinkin), a writer and performer, and Madeleine Patinkin, a young musical theatre vocalist. He attended South Shore High School, Harvard St. George School, and Kenwood High School (later renamed Kenwood Academy, where his teachers included Lena McLin), and graduated in 1970. He attended the University of Kansas and the Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 5: 1972–1976). At Juilliard, he was a classmate of Kelsey Grammer. When the producers of the sitcom Cheers were holding auditions for the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, Patinkin put Grammer's name forward.
1974–1988: Breakthrough and stardom
1974–1988: Breakthrough and stardom
• Illustration — Patinkin starred in Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984) based on Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte After some television-commercial and radio appearances (including on CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974); Patinkin started his career on the New York stage in 1975, starring in Trelawny of the 'Wells as Arthur Gower. Patinkin starred alongside Meryl Streep, who played Imogen Parrott, and John Lithgow, who played Ferdinand Gadd. Clive Barnes of The New York Times praised the production writing, "The production looks beautiful and, indeed, still charms". From 1975 through 1976, Patinkin played the Player King and Fortinbras, Prince of Norway in a Broadway revival of Hamlet, with Sam Waterston in the leading role. In 1977 he starred in the play The Shadow Box written by Michael Cristofer. He had his first film role as a Pool Man in the political comedy The Big Fix (1978) starring Richard Dreyfus, John Lithgow, and F. Murray Abraham. The following year he acted in the coming of age romantic comedy French Postcards and the neo-noir Last Embrace. Patinkin had his first success in musical theater when he starred as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, opposite Patti LuPone, on Broadway in 1979. Walter Kerr of The New York Times described his performance as "vigorous". James Lardner of The Washington Post wrote, "Patinkin gives a sympathetic, consistent and rather sweet performance". Patinkin won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance. He also received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Patinkin took film roles in Milos Forman's historical drama Ragtime (1980) playing Tateh and Sidney Lumet's drama Daniel (1983) portraying Paul Isaacson. Patinkin won acclaim for his role as an Orthodox Jewish man Avigdor in Barbra Streisand's romantic drama epic Yentl (1983), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Richard Corliss of Time praised his performance but criticized Streisand's choice to not have him sing in the film. Corliss wrote, "For her male co-star she hired Mandy Patinkin, who has wrapped his crystalline Broadway tenor voice around Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, then gave him no songs to sing". Veron Scott of United Press International wrote, "When Patinkin is in a scene it is difficult to focus on anyone else, including Streisand who is at her very best in Yentl. He plays profound, passionate men of action." Patinkin noted that both Ragtime (1981) and Daniel (1983) weren't as successful as he had hoped commercially and critically saying, "When you care about the content of a film, you want people to see it". He stated he had a positive experience working with Streisand saying, "'She tried to overcome her superstardom to make me feel comfortable. She worked hard to get to know me for what I am." Patinkin also was able to explore his Jewish roots while making the film saying, "I also spent a couple of weeks in Ohr Semach in Jerusalem at a yeshiva, studying the Talmud and attending lectures. The experience awakened many thoughts and feelings that had been sleeping in me for some time." Patinkin returned to Broadway to star in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, in which he played the pointillist artist Georges Seurat and his fictional great-grandson George. Performances began in April 1984 and he starred opposite Bernadette Peters. Patinkin earned nominations for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote, "Seurat, here embodied commandingly by Mandy Patinkin, could well be a stand-in for Mr. Sondheim, who brings the same fierce, methodical intellectual precision to musical and verbal composition that the artist brought to his pictorial realm." Patinkin left the show on September 17 and was replaced by Robert Westenberg. He returned to the show on August 5, 1985, until the show closed two months later. His performance was captured on film and shown on television as a part of American Playhouse. The following year he took the role of Buddy Plummer in Follies: In Concert at Lincoln Center. • Illustration — Patinkin's costume for Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride (1987) In 1985 Patinkin took a leading role in the romantic fantasy comedy Maxie opposite Glenn Close. Variety gave the film a mixed review but praised Patinkin, writing, "Much of the credit for keeping [Maxie] alive must go to Mandy Patinkin, who shows himself to be a good-looking leading man with a rare light touch for romantic comedy." In 1987, Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, looking to avenge his father's death. Patinkin acted opposite Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Andre the Giant, and Billy Crystal. Variety praised his performance writing, "Patinkin especially is a joy to watch and the film comes to life when his longhaired, scruffy cavalier is on screen." His character has earned a cult following and his memorable line "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die," was ranked as one of IGNs best movie moments. The following year in 1988 he acted in the science fiction action film Alien Nation directed by Graham Baker and the neo-noir film The House on Carroll Street directed by Peter Yates.
1989–2004: Established actor
1989–2004: Established actor
Over the next decade, he continued to appear in movies, including Warren Beatty's action crime comedy Dick Tracy (1990) and Herbert Ross's political comedy True Colors (1991). He also portrayed Alfred de Musset in James Lapine's period drama Impromptu (1991) starring Hugh Grant, Judy Davis, Emma Thompson, and reunited with Bernadette Peters. Dessen Howe of The Washington Post described his performance writing "he makes an effective comic catalyst". On Broadway, Patinkin appeared as Lord Archibald Craven opposite Rebecca Luker and Robert Westenberg in the musical The Secret Garden in 1991 and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He left the show in September of that same year and Howard McGillin took over his role. He also released two solo albums, titled Mandy Patinkin (1989) and Dress Casual (1990). In January 1993, he took over the role of Marvin from Michael Rupert in the Broadway musical Falsettos and starred opposite Barbara Walsh, Stephen Bogardus, and Chip Zien. In 1995, Patinkin sang the role of Billy Bigelow in a concert performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at the BBC Radio Theatre. In 1994, Patinkin took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. However, despite the award and the ratings success of the show, Patinkin left the show during the second season because he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife and children. He returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was canceled in 2000. Since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has appeared in a number of films. However, he has mostly performed as a singer, releasing three more albums. During this time Patinkin guest-starred in The Simpsons in the episode "Lisa's Wedding" (1995) as Hugh Parkfield, Lisa's future English groom and in The Larry Sanders Show (1996) for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He also acted in numerous films such as the drama The Doctor (1991), The Music of Chance (1993), the comedy Life with Mikey (1993), the action adventure Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994), and the romantic mystery Lulu on the Bridge (1998). After turning down the role in the Walt Disney Animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), he portrayed Quasimodo in the TNT television film The Hunchback (1997) acting opposite Salma Hayek, and Richard Harris. John O'Connor from The New York Times praised his performance writing, "[Patinkin] is surprisingly restrained...His Quasimodo is a gentle and quite moving creature, shyly hiding his facial disfigurations in the shadows". Connor praised the production writing that its "oddly old-fashioned, paying a kind of homage, as does Mr. Patinkin's performance, to the Laughton film." Mamaloshen, Patinkin's musical production of songs sung entirely in Yiddish, premiered in 1998. He has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the United States. The recorded version won a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis award in Germany. In 1999, Patinkin co-starred in the second Sesame Street film, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, as Huxley, an abusive, childish, sadistic, and greedy man with abnormally large eyebrows, who steals whatever he can grab and then claims it as his own. Patinkin returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, portraying Burrs opposite Toni Collette as Queenie. The vaudeville-like production is based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem of the same name. For his performance he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. In 2003, he dubbed a voice in the Walt Disney re-release of Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky. From 2003 to 2004, he appeared in the Showtime comedy drama Dead Like Me as Rube Sofer. In 2004, he played a six-week engagement of his one-man concert at the Off-Broadway complex Dodger Stages.
2005–2020: Criminal Minds and Homeland
2005–2020: Criminal Minds and Homeland
• Illustration — Patinkin outside the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 2012 In September 2005, he secured the role of Jason Gideon, an experienced profiler just coming back to work after a series of nervous breakdowns, in the new CBS crime-drama television series Criminal Minds. Patinkin was absent from a table read for Criminal Minds and did not return for a third season. The departure from the show was not due to contractual or salary matters, but over creative differences. He left apologetic letters for his fellow cast members explaining his reasons and wishing them luck. Many weeks before his departure, in a videotaped interview carried in the online magazine Monaco Revue, Patinkin told journalists at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo that he loathed violence on television and was uncomfortable with certain scenes in Criminal Minds. He later called his choice to do Criminal Minds his "biggest public mistake" and stated that he "thought it was something very different. I never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year. It was very destructive to my soul and my personality. After that, I didn't think I would get to work in television again." Patinkin spoke of having planned to tour the world with a musical and wanting to inject more comedy into the entertainment business. In later episodes of Criminal Minds, during the 2007–08 season, Jason Gideon was written out of the series and replaced by Special Agent David Rossi (played by Joe Mantegna). Gideon was later officially killed off, ending all chances of a guest appearance by Patinkin on the show. In 2008, Patinkin portrayed Prospero in an off-Broadway musical production of The Tempest opposite Elisabeth Waterston and Michael Potts. Marilyn Stasio of Variety wrote, "Patinkin has a beautiful voice, as warm and golden as honey spooned from a jar -- the perfect voice to sing us through "The Tempest," the most musical of Shakespeare's late plays." On October 14, 2009, it was announced that Patinkin would be a guest star on an episode of Three Rivers, which aired on November 15, 2009. He played a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease injured in a car accident who asks the doctors at Three Rivers Hospital to take him off life support so his organs can be donated. He filmed an appearance on The Whole Truth that had been scheduled to air December 15, 2010, but ABC pulled the series from its schedule two weeks prior. That same year he acted in the British crime drama 4.3.2.1. (2010) acting opposite Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, and Helen McCrory. • Illustration — Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Patinkin, and Olivia Cooke at the TIFF in 2018 He starred in the new musical Paradise Found, co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman, at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. The musical played a limited engagement from May 2010 through June 26, 2010. Patinkin and Patti LuPone performed their concert An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin on Broadway for a limited 63-performance run starting November 21, 2011, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, and ending on January 13, 2012. The concert marked the first time the pair had performed together on Broadway since appearing in Evita. He costarred with Claire Danes on the Showtime series Homeland, which aired from 2011 until 2020. He portrayed counterterrorism operative Saul Berenson, protagonist Carrie Mathison's (Danes) mentor. For his performance, Patinkin was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, among other honors. Explaining what he learned from the character, he stated, "The line between good and evil runs through each one of us." Patinkin was announced as playing the role of Pierre Bezukhov in the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 starting August 15, 2017. He was to have a limited run through September 3, replacing former Hamilton star Okieriete Onaodowan, but Patinkin dropped out of the role before performing. His stint was filled in for by the show's Pierre standby Scott Stangland and creator of the musical Dave Malloy. In 2018, Patinkin returned to recorded music with the album Diary: January 27, 2018 which was produced by pianist Thomas Bartlett. He voiced Papa Smurf in the live-action comedy film Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) opposite Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, and Julia Roberts. During this time he also took roles in the animated film The Wind Rises (2013), the comedy-drama Wish I Was Here (2014), the family film Wonder (2017), the drama Life Itself (2018), and the comedy Before You Know It (2019).
2021–present
2021–present
In 2021 he was part of the main cast of the legal drama series The Good Fight on CBS. The following year he voiced Benjamin Franklin in the Ken Burns documentary series Benjamin Franklin on PBS. Also in 2022, Patinkin was the narrator of the miniseries Indivisible: Healing Hate, a Paramount+ show documenting the events that led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack. In 2024, Patinkin starred as Rufus Cotesworth, a renowned former detective, now heading private security for a business family, in ABC Studios' TV series Death and Other Details. In January 2026, he was cast as the Norse god Odin for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video live-action adaptation of the two Norse mythology-based video games in the God of War series.
Activism and politics
Activism and politics
In May 2012, Patinkin delivered the opening speech at the Annual Convention of the Israeli Left, where he recounted his experiences during a visit to the West Bank with members of the Breaking the Silence organization. On December 21, 2015, on Charlie Rose on PBS, Patinkin spoke about his recent trip to Greece to help refugees from war-torn Syria and his acting role in the television series Homeland. He stated that he wanted to help "create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, to give freedom, justice and dignity, quality of life to humanity all over the world." In 2020, Grody and Patinkin partnered with Swing Left, creating viral videos with their sons to encourage people to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election. Patinkin also stumped for Biden in an ad for the Jewish Democratic Council of America encouraging Jews to vote for Biden. The ad featured Patinkin channeling his Princess Bride character to encourage people to vote. In a July 2025 New York Times interview with his wife Grody, Patinkin was critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies during the Gaza War, arguing that his actions are "endangering the Jewish population all over the world" and that "to watch what is happening, for the Jewish people to allow this to happen to children and civilians of all ages in Gaza, for whatever reason, is unconscionable and unthinkable." In late October 2025, Patinkin endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City. He also sang (with the PS22 Chorus) at Mayor Mamdani's inauguration ceremony.
Personal life
Personal life
Patinkin married actress and writer Kathryn Grody on April 15, 1980. They have two sons, Isaac and Gideon. Gideon joined his father onstage in Dress Casual in 2011. Patinkin has described himself as "Jewish with a dash of Buddhist" belief. On the Canadian radio program Q, Patinkin called himself a "JewBu" because of this mix of beliefs and "spiritual but not religious". Patinkin suffered from keratoconus, a progressive eye condition, in the mid-1990s. This led to two corneal transplants, his right cornea in 1997 and his left in 1998. He was also diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer in 2004. He celebrated his first year of recovery in 2005 by doing a 265 mi charity bike ride with his son, Isaac – the Arava Institute Hazon Israel Ride: Cycling for Peace, Partnership & Environmental Protection. Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities. He sings in Yiddish, often in concert, and on his album Mamaloshen. He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album, by Dorothy 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. The award-winning book, published in 2005, benefits the Christopher Reeve Foundation and includes an audio CD with Patinkin singing and reading the story as well as Dana Reeve and Bernadette Peters singing. In 2020, Patinkin's and Grody's son, Gideon, began filming and photographing their daily lives, posting images and clips to multiple social media outlets. In 2023, they began a series of live stage events, "A Conversation with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody," facilitated by their son Gideon. Patinkin is a model railroader.
Television
Television
• Year || Title || Role || class="unsortable"|Notes • 1977 — Charleston — Beaudine Croft — Television movie • 1978 — That Thing on ABC — Performer — Television movie • Taxi — Alan — Episode: "Memories of Cab 804 (Part 2)" • 1986 — American Playhouse — Georges Seurat / George — Episode: "Sunday in the Park with George" • Follies in Concert — Buddy Plummer — Television special • 1994–2000 — Chicago Hope — Dr. Jeffrey Geiger — 60 episodes • 1994 — Picket Fences — Episode: "Rebels with Causes" • Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II — Performer — Television special • 1995 — The Simpsons — Hugh Parkfield — Voice role, Episode: "Lisa's Wedding" • The Larry Sanders Show — Himself — Episode: "Eight" • 1996 — Broken Glass — Dr. Harry Hyman — Television movie • 1997 — The Hunchback — Quasimodo • 1999 — Strange Justice — Kenneth Duberstein • 2001 — Touched by an Angel — Satan — Episode: "Netherlands" • Boston Public — Isaac Rice — Episode: "Chapter Twenty-Two" • 2003 — Law & Order — Levi March — Episode: "Absentia" • 2003–2004 — Dead Like Me — Rube Sofer — 29 episodes • 2004 — NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 — Al Cummings — Television movie • 2005–2007 — Criminal Minds — Jason Gideon — 47 episodes • 2009 — Three Rivers — Victor — Episode: "The Luckiest Man" • 2010 — Sondheim! The Birthday Concert — Performer — Television special • 2011 — Wonder Pets! — Groundhog — Voice; Episode: "Help the Groundhog!" • 2011–2020 — Homeland — Saul Berenson — 96 episodes • 2015 — Nina's World — Mr. Lambert — Voice; Episode: "Nina's Library Hop" • 2018 — Hal Prince: A Director's Life — Performer — Television special • 2021 — The Good Fight — Hal Wackner — 8 episodes • Finding Your Roots — Himself — Episode: "On Broadway" • 2022 — Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin — Voice; 2 episodes • 2024 — Death and Other Details — Rufus Cotesworth — 10 episodes • 2025 — Brilliant Minds — Noah Wolf — 2 episodes • The Artist — Norman Henry — 6 episodes • The American Revolution — Benjamin Franklin — Voice; 6 episodes • God of War — Odin — Supporting role
Theatre credits
Theatre credits
• Year || Title || Role || class="unsortable"|Venue || Notes • 1975 — Trelawny of the 'Wells — Mr. Arthur Gower — Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway • 1975–76 — Hamlet — Fortinbras, Player King • 1976 — Rebel Woman — Major Robert Steele Strong — The Public Theater, Off-Broadway • 1977 — Savages — Carlos Esquerdo — Hudson Guild Theater, Off-Broadway • 1977 — The Shadow Box — Mark — Morosco Theatre, Broadway • 1978 — Split — Paul — Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York • 1979 — Leave It to Beaver is Dead — Saverin — The Public Theater, Off-Broadway • 1979–80 — Evita — Che — Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco • Broadway Theatre, Broadway • 1981 — Henry IV, Part 1 — Hotspur — The Public Theater, Off-Broadway • 1983 — Sunday in the Park with George — Georges Seurat / George — Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway • 1984–85 — Booth Theatre, Broadway • 1985 — Follies — Buddy Plummer — Lincoln Center, Broadway • 1987 — The Knife — Peter — The Public Theater, Off-Broadway • 1989 — The Winter's Tale — Leontes • 1989 — Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual — Performer — Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway • 1991 — The Secret Garden — Lord Archibald Craven — St. James Theatre, Broadway • 1993 — Falsettos — Marvin — John Golden Theatre, Broadway — Replacement • 1994 — Sunday in the Park with George — Georges Seurat / George — St. James Theatre, Broadway — Concert • Guys and Dolls — Sky Masterson — BBC Radio Theatre • 1995 — Carousel — Billy Bigelow • 1997 — Mandy Patinkin in Concert — Performer — Lyceum Theatre, Broadway • 1998 — Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Mamaloshen — Performer — Belasco Theatre, Broadway • 2000 — The Wild Party — Burrs — August Wilson Theatre, Broadway • 2001 — Mandy Patinkin in Concert — Performer — Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway • 2002 — Celebrating Sondheim — Performer — Henry Miller's Theatre, Broadway • 2003 — An Enemy of the People — Dr. Stockmann — Williamstown Theater Festival, Massachusetts • 2004 — Mandy Patinkin in Concert — Performer — New World Stages, Off-Broadway • 2008 — Mandy Patinkin on Broadway — Performer — Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway • 2008 — The Tempest — Prospero — Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway • 2010 — Paradise Found — Eunuch — Menier Chocolate Factory, Off-West End, London • 2011 — Compulsion — Sid Silver — Yale Repertory Theatre Berkeley Repertory Theatre The Public Theater • 2011 — An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin — Performer — Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway • 2015 — The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville — Performer — American Repertory Theater
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Mandel Bruce Patinkin and Mandy Bruce Patinkin. His recorded language was English. His recorded confession was Judaism. He married Kathryn Grody.
Film
• Year || Title || Role || Director || class="unsortable"|Notes • 1978 — The Big Fix — Pool Man — Jeremy Kagan • 1979 — French Postcards — Sayyid — Willard Huyck • Last Embrace — First Commuter — Jonathan Demme • 1980 — Night of the Juggler — Allesandro, The Cabbie — Robert Butler • 1981 — Ragtime — Tateh — Miloš Forman • 1983 — Yentl — Avigdor — Barbra Streisand • Daniel — Paul Isaacson — Sidney Lumet • 1985 — Maxie — Nick Cheyney — Paul Aaron • 1987 — The Princess Bride — Inigo Montoya — Rob Reiner • 1988 — Alien Nation — Sam Francisco — Graham Baker • The House on Carroll Street — Ray Salwen — Peter Yates • 1990 — Dick Tracy — 88 Keys — Warren Beatty • 1991 — True Colors — John Palmeri — Herbert Ross • Impromptu — Alfred de Musset — James Lapine • The Doctor — Dr. Murray Kaplan — Randa Haines • 1993 — The Music of Chance — Jim Nashe — Philip Haas • Life with Mikey — Irate Man — James Lapine • 1994 — Squanto: A Warrior's Tale — Brother Daniel — Xavier Koller • 1998 — Lulu on the Bridge — Philip Kleinman — Paul Auster • Men with Guns — Andrew — John Sayles • 1999 — The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland — Huxley — Gary Halvorson • 2001 — Piñero — Joseph Papp — Leon Ichaso • 2002 — Run Ronnie Run — Himself — Troy Miller • 2003 — Castle in the Sky — Louie — Hayao Miyazaki — English dubbing • 2006 — Choking Man — Rick — Steve Barron • Everyone's Hero — Stanley Irving — Christopher Reeve — Voice role • 2010 — 4.3.2.1. — Jago Larofsky — Noel Clarke • 2011 — Jock the Hero Dog — Basil — Duncan MacNeillie — Voice role • 2013 — The Wind Rises — Hattori — Hayao Miyazaki — English dubbing • 2014 — Wish I Was Here — Gabe Bloom — Zach Braff • 2016 — Ali and Nino — Duke Kipiani — Asif Kapadia • The Queen of Spain — Jordan Berman — Fernando Trueba • 2017 — Smurfs: The Lost Village — Papa Smurf — Kelly Asbury — Voice role • Wonder — Mr. Tushman — Stephen Chbosky • 2018 — Life Itself — Irwin Dempsey — Dan Fogelman • André the Giant — Himself — Jason Hehir — Documentary • 2019 — Before You Know It — Mel Gurner — Hannah Pearl Utt • 2023 — The Magician's Elephant — Vilna Lutz — Wendy Rogers — Voice role • November 1963 — Tony Accardo — Roland Joffé — Post-production
Cast recordings
• Year || Title || Role || Notes • 1979 — Evita — Che — Broadway cast recording • 1984 — Sunday in the Park with George — Georges Seurat / George • 1985 — Follies — Buddy Plummer • 1986 — South Pacific — Lieutenant Joseph Cable, USMC — Studio cast recording • 1991 — The Secret Garden — Lord Archibald Craven — Broadway cast recording • 1996 — Man of La Mancha — Sancho Panza — Studio cast recording • 2000 — The Wild Party — Burrs — Broadway cast recording
Where the work is held
Recognition and collections
Mandy Patinkin received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Awards and nominations
Theatre awards • Year || Award || Category || class="unsortable"|Title || Result || class="unsortable"|Ref. Reference • 1980 — Tony Award — Best Featured Actor in a Musical — Evita • Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actor in a Musical • 1982 — Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play — Henry IV • 1984 — Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical — Sunday in the Park with George • Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actor in a Musical • 1987 — The Knife • 1990 — Outstanding Solo Performance — Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual • Outer Critics Circle — Special Award • 1991 — Outstanding Actor in a Musical — The Secret Garden • Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actor in a Musical • 2000 — The Wild Party • Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical Film and television awards • Year || Award || Category || class="unsortable"|Title || Result || class="unsortable"|Ref. Reference • 1995 — Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series — Chicago Hope • 1996 — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series — The Larry Sanders Show • 1999 — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series — Chicago Hope • 2013 — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series — Homeland • 2014 • 2017 • 2018 • 1983 — Golden Globe Award — Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy — Yentl • 1994 — Best Actor - Television Drama Series — Chicago Hope • 2012 — Best Supporting Actor - Television — Homeland • 1995 — Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series — Chicago Hope • 1990 — Saturn Award — Best Supporting Actor — Alien Nation • On February 12, 2018, Patinkin received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6243 Hollywood Blvd for his work on television.
Literature
Literature
Patinkin, Mandy, Oxford Music Online, 2001
Patinkin, Mandy, Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical, 2016
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- 43.Videotaped interview with Monaco Revue. Monaco Revue.
- 44.The Tempest. Variety. September 19, 2008.
- 45.Abrams, Natalie. Mandy Patinkin to Guest-Star on Three Rivers. TV Guide. October 14, 2009.
- 46.Jones, Kenneth. Strauss-Kissed Paradise Found Opens in London; Prince, Stroman, Nelson, Tunick and Fitzhugh Lead the Waltz. Playbill. May 26, 2010.
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- 56.Siegel, Tatiana. Sundance Unveils Politics-Heavy Lineup Featuring Ocasio-Cortez Doc, Feinstein Drama. The Hollywood Reporter. 2018-11-28.
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Mandy Patinkin studied at Juilliard School, University of Kansas, Kenwood Academy and South Shore High School. He trained under John Houseman.
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