Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin as Rube John Sofer from the television show Dead Like Me.
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Mandy Patinkin as Rube John Sofer from the television show Dead Like Me.

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

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[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.

[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.

Over the next decade he continued to appear in various movies, such as Dick Tracy and Alien Nation, on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden for 706 performances, and 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.

He will sing during 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.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Film

Patinkin as FBI Agent Jason Gideon in the hit CBS series, Criminal Minds
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Patinkin as FBI Agent Jason Gideon in the hit CBS series, Criminal Minds

[edit] Television

[edit] Television commercials

[edit] Stage

[edit] Broadway

[edit] Other Theater

[edit] Discography

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).

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