Tony Goldwyn
Acting
Born 1960-05-20
Los Angeles, California, USA
114 credits
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Anthony Howard 'Tony' Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He's known for his roles as Carl Bruner in Ghost, President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC's drama Scandal, district attorney Nicholas Baxter on Law & Order, Gordon Gray in Oppenheimer, Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), Andrew Prior in Divergent and Insurgent, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, Michael Drucker in The 6th Day, Dr. William 'Will' Rudolph in Kiss the Girls, Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Harold Nixon in Nixon (1995), Fletcher Cole in The Pelican Brief, and the voice of Tarzan in the Disney animated Tarzan.
He made his acting debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film Ghost (1990), which earned him a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star as Harold Nixon in the biographical film Nixon (1995), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and as Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998).
He portrayed Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), which earned him a second nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the ABC legal/political drama Scandal (2012–2018) and directed a number of episodes for the series, for which he won a Peabody Award.
He is the son of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and actress Jennifer Howard. His paternal grandparents were film producer and movie studio mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. His brother John Goldwyn is a film producer, a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of the series Dexter. His brother Peter is also a film producer and the current President of Samuel Goldwyn Films. His half-sister Liz Goldwyn is a filmmaker. His niece is writer/producer Emily Goldwyn (John's daughter - and her mother is actress Colleen Camp).
He has been married to production designer Jane Musky since 1987 and they have two daughters: Anna, a screenwriter, and Tess, an actress.
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Acting
51 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Dexter
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Frasier
Sherri
The Good Wife
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Hunter
The View
Oppenheimer
Without a Trace
Scandal
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hacks
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
One Battle After Another
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
L.A. Law
St. Elsewhere
Matlock
Murphy Brown
The L Word
Tales from the Crypt
Drop Dead Diva
The Last House on the Left
The Last Samurai
Tarzan
Ghost
Insurgent
Divergent
The Mechanic
From the Earth to the Moon
King Richard
Kiss the Girls
Lovecraft Country
Who Do You Think You Are?
Plane
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
The Hot Zone
The Pelican Brief
The 6th Day
Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI
Murder Mystery 2
Entertainment Tonight
Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood
The Belko Experiment
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Directing
13 credits
Grey's Anatomy
Law & Order
Dexter
Without a Trace
Damages
Scandal
Private Practice
Justified
The L Word
Dirty Sexy Money
Kidnapped
Someone Like You...
Six Degrees
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