Mandy Patinkin
Mandel 'Mandy' Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer known for his work in musical theatre, television, and film. As a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, he collaborates with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. His leading roles on stage and screen have received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for seven Drama Desk Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He made his theatre debut in 1975, starring opposite Meryl Streep in the revival of the comic play Trelawny of the "Wells" at The Public Theatre'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. He portrayed Lord Archibald Craven in the original Broadway cast of Lucy Simon's The Secret Garden (1991). On Broadway, he replaced Michael Rupert as Marvin in William Finn's Falsettos (1993). He starred as Burrs in The Wild Party (2000) and earned a second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He had leading 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). He earned seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his television work, winning Outstanding Leading Actor in a Drama Series for Chicago Hope in 1995. He had recurring roles in Dead Like Me (2003–2004,) and The Good Fight (2021). He also had film roles portraying 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). He also voiced roles in Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky (2003) and The Wind Rises (2013).
Born: 30 November 1952
Played In
November 1963
Anthony Accardo
Rob Reiner – Scenes from a Life
Self
The Artist
Norman Henry
The American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
Harry Chapin - Cat’s in the Cradle: The Song That Changed Our Lives
Self
Brilliant Minds
Dr. Noah Wolf
Death and Other Details
Rufus Cotesworth
The Magician's Elephant
Vilna Lutz (voice)
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
Indivisible: Healing Hate
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Inigo Montoya
Disclosure
Avigdor (archive footage)
On Broadway
Self (archive footage)
Before You Know It
Mel Gurner
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
Life Itself
Irwin Dempsey
Wonder
Mr. Tushman
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Papa Smurf (voice)
The Good Fight
Hal Wackner
The Queen of Spain
Jordan Berman
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
Self
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
Self - TV Spot Announcer (archive footage)
Ali and Nino
Duke Kipiani
The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs
Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Wish I Was Here
Gabe
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
Homeland
Saul Berenson
Jock the Hero Dog
Basil (voice)
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Self
4.3.2.1
Sir Jago Larofsky
Three Rivers
The Jewish Americans
Self
Everyone's Hero
Stanley Irving (voice)
Choking Man
Rick
The Reichen Show
Self - Guest
The Colbert Report
Self (uncredited)
Criminal Minds
Jason Gideon
Remembering Ragtime
Tateh (archive footage)
NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323
Al Cummings
This Is the House That Jack Built
Broadway's Lost Treasures
Che (segment "Evita")
Dead Like Me
Rube Sofer
Run Ronnie Run
Self
Piñero
Joseph Papp
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
Self
Boston Public
Isaac Rice
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Huxley
Strange Justice
Kenneth Duberstein
Speaking in Strings
Self
Lulu on the Bridge
Philip Kleinman
Hercules
Hippocrates (voice)
Men with Guns
Andrew
The View
Self
The Hunchback
Quasimodo
Ellis Island
Self - Host and Narrator
Broken Glass
Dr Henry Hyman
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
Self
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Brother Daniel
Touched by an Angel
The Driver / Satan
Chicago Hope
Jeffrey Geiger
The Music of Chance
Jim Nashe
Life with Mikey
Irate Man
Picket Fences
Dr. Jeffrey Geiger
The Larry Sanders Show
Mandy Patinkin
Performance
Dr. Harry Hyman
The Doctor
Murray
Madonna: Truth or Dare
Self
Impromptu
Alfred De Musset
True Colors
John Palmeri
Law & Order
Levi March / Glenn Fordyce
Dick Tracy
88 Keys
The Simpsons
Hugh St. John Alastair Parkfield (voice)
Alien Nation
Samuel 'George' Francisco
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self
The House on Carroll Street
Salwen
The Princess Bride
Inigo Montoya
Sunday in the Park with George
Georges Seurat / George
Follies: In Concert
Buddy Plummer
Sondheim on Broadway: Follies - Four Days in New York
Self
Maxie
Nick
To Be Hamlet
Self
Yentl
Avigdor
Daniel
Paul Isaacson
Ragtime
Tateh
Night of the Juggler
Allesandro the Cabbie
French Postcards
Sayyid
Last Embrace
First Commuter
Charleston
Beaudine Croft
The Big Fix
Pool Man
Taxi
Alan
Great Performances
Buddy Plummer
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Painted Bride
(voice)
God of War
Odin