Nick Sandow
{{short description|American actor, writer, and director}}
{{Infobox person
| image =
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| caption = Arrivals at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
| name = Nick Sandow
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|8|03}}
| birth_place = The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Actor
- writer
- producer
- director}}
| years_active = 1991–present
}}
Nick Sandow (born August 3, 1966) is an American character actor,{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/nick-sandow-vn15350098|title=Nick Sandow | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos|website=AllMovie}} writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Joe Caputo in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019).
Early life
Of Italian descent,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/nick-sandow/bio/3030417768/|title=Nick Sandow|website=TVGuide.com}}{{Cite web|last=Moore|first=Camille|date=2021-01-15|title=10 Things You Didn't Know about Nick Sandow|url=https://www.tvovermind.com/nick-sandow/|access-date=2021-09-12|website=TVOvermind|language=en-US}} Sandow grew up in the Italian neighborhood of Van Nest in the Bronx.{{cite web |last1=Mars |first1=Alexandre |title=#DoingWellByDoingGood: An Interview with Nick Sandow, Joe Caputo from Orange Is the New Black, on… |url=https://medium.com/@Alexandre_Mars/doing-well-by-doing-good-an-interview-with-nick-sandow-joe-caputo-from-orange-is-the-new-black-776c3bde512b |website=Medium |access-date=14 May 2019 |date=1 May 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Shaw |first1=Dan |title=Nick Sandow, of 'Orange Is the New Black,' at Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/realestate/nick-sandow-of-orange-is-the-new-black-at-home.html |access-date=14 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=4 December 2015}} He moved to Manhattan around age 19 to study acting under William Esper Studio in the Two-Year Professional Actor Training Program and work in theater.{{cite news |last1=Hegedus |first1=Eric |title=Meet the warden who rules the roost on 'OITNB' |url=https://nypost.com/2015/07/06/meet-the-warden-who-rules-the-roost-on-oitnb/ |access-date=14 May 2019 |publisher=New York Post |date=7 July 2015 |language=en}}
Career
Sandow made his debut appearing in an episode of television series Law & Order in 1992 and worked as a bartender while taking small acting jobs in New York City. He appeared in a number of films, such as Grind (1997), A Brooklyn State of Mind (1998), Return to Paradise (1998) and On the Run (1999). Sandow performed in the 1999 off-Broadway production of Halfway Home.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iobdb.com/Production/1861|title=Halfway Home|website=www.iobdb.com}} He played mobster Henry Hill in the 2001 made-for-television crime drama film, The Big Heist. Sandow guest-starred on New York Undercover, Third Watch, NYPD Blue, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, How to Make It in America and Blue Bloods. He began his directing career in theater on Off-Off-Broadway directing Dark Yellow, Chicken and From Riverdale to Riverhead.{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Frazier |title=On 'Orange,' Nick Sandow excels by more than a whisker |url=https://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/219/on-orange-nick-sandow-excels-by-more-than-a-whisker/article_6c50127b-73e6-56d0-a89e-162fdd179d2d.html |access-date=14 May 2019 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=nwitimes.com |language=en}} In 2011 he directed the immigrant drama film, Ponies based on play with the same name.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/movies/ponies-by-nick-sandow-from-michael-batisticks-play.html|title=The Seedy Betting Parlor Where Dreams Go to Die|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|date=July 12, 2012|via=NYTimes.com}}
In 2013, Sandow was cast in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black, as prison administrator Joe Caputo, was originally supposed to have been for a handful of episodes for the show's first season. Instead, his role was expanded during the second season, and Sandow was made a series regular with the start of the third season.{{cite web |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |title=Nick Sandow & Selenis Leyva Upped To Regulars On 'Orange Is The New Black'; Damon Wayans Jr. On 'New Girl' |url=https://deadline.com/2014/05/nick-sandow-selenis-leyva-upped-to-regulars-on-orange-is-the-new-black-damon-wayans-jr-on-new-girl-724662/ |website=Deadline |access-date=14 May 2019 |language=en |date=6 May 2014}} He received three Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with the cast. In 2015 he wrote, directed and acted in The Wannabe. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and later got a wider release. In 2017 he received News and Documentary Emmy Awards nomination for producing the documentary series, Time: The Kalief Browder Story.{{Cite web| title=The nominations - Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast | url=https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-40th-news-doc-emmy-awards-nominations-final-wm-cropped.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818100535/https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-40th-news-doc-emmy-awards-nominations-final-wm-cropped.pdf | archive-date=2021-08-18}} In 2021 he was regular cast member in the short-lived CBS crime drama series, Clarice.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Hand Gun | Earl's Man Max | |
| rowspan=2 | 1996 | The Mouse | Shamster #1 | |
| No Exit | Lenny Bentini | ||
| rowspan=3 | 1997 | Arresting Gena | Paul | |
| Grind | Lenny | ||
| One Night Stand | Mugger | ||
| rowspan=5 | 1998 | A Brooklyn State of Mind | Vincent Stanco | |
| No Looking Back | Goldie | ||
| Come To | Johnny | Short film | |
| Return to Paradise | Ravitch | ||
| Living Out Loud | Santi's Man | ||
| rowspan=2 | 1999 | On the Run | Jack | |
| Uninvited | Ed | ||
| 2000 | The Day the Ponies Come Back | Joey | |
| rowspan=4 | 2001 | The Big Heist | Henry Hill | TV film |
| Plan B | Tommy | ||
| Dust | White Trash | ||
| New Port South | Armstrong | ||
| 2002 | Swimfan | Detective John Zabel | |
| 2004 | Connie and Carla | Al | |
| 2005 | The Collection | Several characters | |
| rowspan=3 | 2007 | Resurrecting the Champ | Marciano | |
| The Lovebirds | Lenny | ||
| Mitch Albom's For One More Day | Sales Manager | TV film | |
| rowspan=2 | 2008 | The Accidental Husband | Larry | |
| Good Old Days | Dave | Short film | |
| rowspan=2 | 2009 | The Hungry Ghosts | Gus | |
| Frame of Mind | Jimmy | ||
| 2011 | The Sitter | Officer Frank | |
| rowspan=2 | 2012 | The Fitzgerald Family Christmas | Corey | |
| Two People He Never Saw | Eddie | Short film | |
| rowspan=4 | 2013 | The Cold Lands | Foreman | |
| Promised Land | Greg | Short film | |
| Dead Travis In | Travis | Short film | |
| All Roads Lead | Samuel Carter | ||
| 2014 | Zarra's Law | Sal | |
| rowspan=3 | 2015 | Houses | Also producer | |
| Meadowland | Garza | ||
| The Wannabe | Anthony | Also director and writer | |
| 2016 | Full Stop to an Infernal Planet | Lt. McCauley | |
| 2017 | Patti Cake$ | Ray | |
| rowspan=2 | 2018 | Cabaret Maxime | Dominic | |
| Stella's Last Weekend | Ron | ||
| 2023
|The Unheard |Hank | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Law & Order | Officer Nelson | Episode: "Blood Is Thicker..." |
| 1995–1996 | New York Undercover | Henry / White UNI | 2 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 1996 | Law & Order | Pete Pogosian | Episode: "Deadbeat" |
| Due South | Barry Pappas | Episode: "Body Language" | |
| 1999 | Law & Order | Andy Grenada | Episode: "Hunters" |
| 2000–2002 | Third Watch | Joe Lombardo | 12 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 2003 | NYPD Blue | Ray Wilentz | Episode: "Frickin' Fracker" |
| The Jury | Mr. Krause | Episode: "Three Boys and a Gun" | |
| 2005 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Det. Albert Kirkoff | Episode: "Unchained" |
| 2006 | Six Degrees | Louie | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2008 | New Amsterdam | Frank | Episode: "Keep the Change" |
| rowspan=2 | 2010 | Mercy | Scott's Dad | Episode: "I Did Kill You, Didn't I?" |
| How to Make It in America | Father Dan | 3 episodes | |
| 2005 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | ADA Roydell Getty | Episode: "The Mobster Will See You Now" |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Doug Kersten | Episode: "Class" |
| 2010–2011 | Blue Bloods | Lt. Alex Bello | 4 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 2011 | Nurse Jackie | Anthony Donovan | Episode: "Have You Met Mrs Jones?" |
| CSI: Miami | Larry Gramercy | Episode: "Crowned" | |
| 2011–2012 | Boardwalk Empire | Waxey Gordon | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | Unforgettable | William "Bud" Spence | Episode: "Butterfly Effect" |
| 2013–2019 | Orange Is The New Black | Joe Caputo | 80 episodes Directed 5 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2015–17) Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |
| 2015 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Det. Ted McCormack | Episode: "Perverted Justice" |
| 2021 | Clarice | Murray Clarke | Main role |
=Theatre=
- Halfway Home, Theatre at St. Clements, New York, 1999
- Baptism By Fire, Studio Dante, New York City, 2004
- Henry Flamethrow, Studio Dante, New York City, 2005 (Director){{cite web|url=http://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/315455-nick-sandow|website=About the Artists|title=Nick Sandow}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0762191}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141220151514/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/237696/Nick-Sandow Movie Reviews]
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Category:American people of Italian descent
Category:Male actors from the Bronx
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:Television producers from New York City
Category:Writers from the Bronx