Oliver Platt
{{Short description|American actor (born 1960)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Oliver Platt
| image = Oliver Platt (2010).jpg
| caption = Platt in 2010
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|01|12}}
| birth_place = Windsor, Ontario, Canada
| nationality = American
| education = Tufts University
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1985–present
| spouse = {{Marriage|Camilla Campbell|1992}}
| children = 3
| mother =
| father = Nicholas Platt
| relatives = Adam Platt (brother)
}}
Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is an American actor known for his work on stage and screen. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and one Tony Award.
Following his acting debut in the 1988 film Married to the Mob, Platt gained prominence for his roles in Working Girl (1988), Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, Benny & Joon, The Three Musketeers (all 1993), A Time to Kill (1996), The Impostors, Bulworth, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Lake Placid, Three to Tango, and Bicentennial Man (all 1999). His other notable credits include Gun Shy, Ready to Rumble (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Pieces of April (2003), Kinsey (2004), The Ice Harvest, Casanova (both 2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), and X-Men: First Class (2011).
Platt is known for his work on television series such as The Big C (2010–2013), Fargo (2014) and The Good Wife (2015). He received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for his portrayal of George Steinbrenner in the ESPN miniseries The Bronx Is Burning (2007) as well as nominations for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor for his roles in The West Wing (2001), Huff (2005; 2006), and Nip/Tuck (2008). He is known for his recurring role as Uncle Jimmy on Hulu's The Bear (2022–present) and has played Dr. Daniel Charles on Chicago Med since 2015.
On stage, Platt made his Broadway debut in the Conor McPherson play Shining City (2006) for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor. He returned to Broadway playing Nathan Detroit in the 2009 revival of the Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls.
Early life and education
= Family =
Platt was born on January 12, 1960 {{cite news|date=January 12, 2020|title=UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020|work=United Press International|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/12/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-12-2020/8721578623716/|url-status=live|access-date=June 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113032052/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/12/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-12-2020/8721578623716/|archive-date=January 13, 2020|quote=… actor Oliver Platt in 1960 (age 60)}} in Windsor, Ontario, Canada,Platt, speaking to brother Adam Platt in {{cite magazine|last=Platt|first=Adam|date=February 19, 2009|title=The Brothers Platt |url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/54629/|url-status=live|magazine=New York|publisher=Vox Media |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804205853/https://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/54629/|archive-date=August 4, 2020|quote=Our father joined the Foreign Service at a young age, which meant that we grew up all over the place. You were born in Washington, D.C. Our younger brother, Nick, who's now a prosperous business executive, was born in Hong Kong. I was born in Windsor, Ontario, which is right across from Detroit, when our father was stamping visas there, on the U.S.-Canada border.}} to American parents Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker and Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines.{{cite web|title=Oliver Platt Biography |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Oliver-Platt.html|access-date=May 16, 2020|website=Film Reference}}{{cite news|last=Kipen|first=David|date=April 3, 1995|title=Oliver Platt: from second banana to pick of the bunch|page=L1|work=L.A. Life|publisher=Los Angeles Daily News}} His older brother, Adam Platt, is a New York magazine restaurant critic. They returned to the United States when Platt was three months old.{{cite news|last=McDonald|first=Gayle|date=April 28, 2006|title=Oliver Platt: 7 questions|page=R34|newspaper=The Globe and Mail}}
Platt's paternal great-grandfather was artist and architect Charles A. Platt,{{cite web|date=February 21, 2010|title=Hamlet in New Hampshire was a haven for artists|url=http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/feb/21/hamlet-in-new-hampshire-was-a-haven-for-/?print|access-date=July 1, 2016|website=Vindy.com}} and his maternal great-grandparents were equestrian Arthur Scott Burden (of the industrialist Burden family) and socialite Cynthia Roche.{{cite web|last=Roberts|first=Gary Boyd|title=#43 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New – and Deleted – Immigrants of Royal Descent|url=http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_gbr43.asp|access-date=December 29, 2009|work=NewEnglandAncestors.org}} Platt is also a great-great-grandson of General Robert Shaw Oliver (through his mother).{{cite web|title=Oliver Platt Pedigree Chart | Oliver Platt | Ahnentafel No: 1 (44106)|url=http://famouskin.com/pedigree.php?name=44106+oliver+platt&ahnum=1|access-date=July 1, 2016|website=Famouskin.com}} Platt's paternal great-great-grandfather was diplomat and lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate. Choate was the most successful lawyer in New York City during the Gilded Age and was later appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom by President William McKinley. His brother William Gardner Choate, who was also a prominent lawyer and federal judge, created Choate Rosemary Hall.{{cite web|date=May 5, 1917|title=Joseph Hodges Choate Dies Suddenly Famous Lawyer and Statesman was 85|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/05/15/archives/joseph-hodges-choate-dies-suddenly-famous-lawyer-and-statesman-was.html|website=The New York Times}}
= Early life =
Because of his father's career as a foreign service officer, much of Platt's childhood was spent in Asia and Washington, D.C.{{cite news|last=Snead|first=Elizabeth|date=October 6, 1998|title=Oliver Platt well-rounded as an 'Impostor'|page=5D|work=USA Today}} Platt attended twelve different schools, including the American School in Japan, and has said "Even now I find myself envying people who have neighborhoods and roots." Platt's family made frequent trips back to Washington, where they held Redskins season tickets.{{cite magazine|last=Deitsch|first=Richard|date=October 30, 2006|title=Q&A Oliver Platt|page=24|magazine=Sports Illustrated}} Platt is also a fan of the Boston Red Sox.
When he was nine years old, Platt and his family visited the Kennedy Center in Washington, where he watched a performance that helped inspire his acting career. "One of the performances that really made me want to be an actor started out with this probably 20-minute rambling, drunken monologue by this bum. And it was a young Morgan Freeman. I'll never forget it. This guy was just so riveting. He stood there on stage alone before the curtain went up, and he held this audience utterly rapt. Including myself, obviously." According to Platt, drama departments gave his childhood some stability, "It was something of a survival mechanism, in that it gave me a little subculture to plug into wherever I ended up. Kids need that. I certainly did."
= Education =
Platt attended a progressive boarding school named Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado.{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Linda|date=July 18, 1999|title=A night out with Oliver Platt; a wash and a shampoo|work=The New York Times|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E0DC153FF93BA25754C0A96F958260|access-date=March 10, 2008}} Platt majored in drama at Tufts University, where he met and became close friends with Hank Azaria.{{cite web|date=January 10, 2003|title=All Rise! Veteran actor – and Tufts graduate – Oliver Platt stars as a judge in the new CBS show 'Queens Supreme'|url=http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/962/2003/01/10/AllRise/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918064139/http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/962/2003/01/10/AllRise/|archive-date=September 18, 2016|work=Tufts e-News|place=Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts}}{{cite web|last=Shister|first=Gail|date=Fall 2004|title=It's Showtime! Former classmates and friends find themselves starring together in a new television series|url=http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2004/features/feature2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010007/http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2004/features/feature2.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016|work=Tufts Magazine}}{{cite news|last=Lipton|first=Brian Scott|date=March 31, 2006|title=Playing Huff|work=Theater Mania|url=http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/7960|url-status=dead|access-date=November 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731130828/http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/7960|archive-date=July 31, 2008}} He spent three years working in theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, which he said had a "wealth of serious amateur theatre at that time…I played many roles, and it was the best training I could have had."{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Simi|date=May 10, 2006|title=Back stage; Oliver Platt plots his career without a map|publisher=VNU Entertainment Newswire}} Platt travelled with Shakespeare and Company, based in Lenox, Massachusetts, touring schools to earn his Equity card, before moving to New York. Platt's early career involved Off-Broadway and regional theatre, and he appeared onstage with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club and other companies across many genres. He obtained an agent while working at Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, and met actor Bill Murray at his cousin's Christmas party. Murray attended Platt's show and recommended Platt to director Jonathan Demme, who cast him in Married to the Mob in 1988. Platt attributes his breakthrough to appearing at the Punch Line Theater.
Career
Platt makes his decisions about accepting acting roles based on the role being "different from what I just did...I do have to be interested in the role". After Married to the Mob, he appeared in Working Girl (1988), Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), The Three Musketeers (1993), A Time to Kill (1996), Executive Decision (1996), and Bulworth (1998).{{cite news|date=August 11, 2002|title=Face of the day: Oliver Platt|page=48|publisher=Wales on Sunday}} In 1998 Platt and Stanley Tucci played two deadbeat actors who improvise with unsuspecting strangers in The Impostors.{{cite news|last=Rowe|first=Douglas|date=October 27, 1998|title=The ubiquitous Oliver Platt|publisher=Associated Press Newswires}} Tucci and Platt developed the characters while working on a play at Yale University in 1988, with Tucci later completing the screenplay and directing the film.
In 1999, Platt played the wealthy and eccentric crocodile enthusiast Hector in David E. Kelley's Lake Placid, alongside Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda.{{cite web|url=https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/swimming-with-the-crocs/article_f33950d1-a8bd-564f-8772-90405923a4c9.html|title=Swimming with the crocs: Oliver Platt knows a thing or two about oddball characters|newspaper=Tulsa World|first=Dennis|last=King|date=July 19, 1999}} Platt described Hector as "pretty abrasive and obnoxious at times, but, I hope, he has a way of growing on you. I think David originally thought of him as a great white hunter sort of guy, but when I signed on for the role he sort of wrote him in a different direction."
The short-lived drama Deadline provided Platt's first lead role on television. Created by Dick Wolf, who also created Law & Order, Deadline focused on the lives of newspaper journalists in New York City.{{cite news|last=Gilbert|first=Matthew|date=October 2, 2000|title='Deadline' misses, and that's a crime|work=Living|publisher=The Boston Globe}} Platt starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Wallace Benton, an "unlikely hero". The strong cast, which also included Bebe Neuwirth and Hope Davis, could not compensate for substandard writing and the series was soon canceled. After Deadline{{'s}} failure, Platt avoided work on television until he read a script for The West Wing and signed on for a guest role. He received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of no-nonsense White House Counsel Oliver Babish, brought in during season two to compile a defense for President Bartlet and others who covered up his non-disclosure of multiple sclerosis.{{cite book|last=Challen|first=Paul|title=Inside the West Wing|publisher=ECW Press|year=2001|isbn=1-55022-468-9|location=Toronto}}
His role in the television series Huff as Russell Tupper from 2004 to 2006 was well-received, especially by creator Bob Lowry, who said, "Oliver plays an alcoholic, drug-addicted, sexaholic, workaholic, womanizing misogynist who is adorable. I don't know any actor who could do that. I originally saw Russell as a blond stud, but when I saw what Oliver could do, I realized how much better, richer, and less predictable he was than my idea of the character ... Oliver is very committed to the idea that story and dialogue be character-driven and unique". Platt's work was nominated for two Emmy awards and a Golden Globe.{{cite news|date=March 9, 2007|title=Oliver Platt joins ABC political comedy|publisher=Reuters News}}
In 2005, Platt acted in Harold Ramis's film The Ice Harvest as an unhappy businessman with a trophy wife and two stepchildren who becomes involved with a friend who has stolen $2 million from a Mafia boss.{{cite news|last=King|first=Susan|date=November 28, 2005|title=Oliver Platt a scene-stealer in the old tradition: The actor tells all about the art of playing drunk, and the trouble with being the only American in a movie full of British actors playing Italians|page=C3|newspaper=Vancouver Sun}} He also played a lard merchant named Papprizzio in Lasse Hallström's Casanova, who competes with Casanova (Heath Ledger) for marriage to Francesca (Sienna Miller). Platt won the New York Film Critics Online Award for best supporting actor for his role in Casanova.{{cite news|last=Hartl|first=John|date=December 25, 2005|title=Casanova: supporting actor Oliver Platt saves comedy's flow|newspaper=The Seattle Times|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2002699570_casanova25.html|access-date=March 10, 2008}}
A Broadway production named Shining City was Platt's Broadway debut in 2006. The play was set in Dublin, and Platt's role was the tortured protagonist, John. Shining City{{'s}} director said, "There is one word to describe Oliver. It's 'humanity.' He's got that everyman quality. He's a contradictory human being with flaws and strengths. And he's loveable. He can simultaneously make you laugh and break your heart. Oliver has brought to the role of John what I expected and more: tremendous inventiveness and sensitivity." Platt visited Dublin to prepare for the role and ensure his performance was authentic. He was nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play".{{cite news|date=June 5, 2006|title=Oliver Platt, Donald Byrd receive Tony award nominations|publisher=US Fed News}}
In 2007, Platt played the part of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in the ESPN mini-series The Bronx Is Burning.{{cite news|date=September 20, 2006|title=Pinstripe epic|newspaper=New York Post}} Platt signed onto the project after John Turturro was confirmed as Billy Martin, because "This thing lives or dies by that portrayal ... I think it's great casting. God knows he has the intensity." Platt starred in the pilot episode of The Thick of It, a remake of the British show of the same name in 2007. The series was not picked up by ABC. Platt starred as Nathan Detroit, alongside Lauren Graham as Miss Adelaide, in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls which began performances at the Nederlander Theatre on February 3, 2009, and officially opened on March 1, 2009.{{cite news|title=Theater : Guys & Dolls|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 8, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/theater/09arts-GUYSANDDOLLS_BRF.html|access-date=July 1, 2016 |last1=Itzkoff |first1=Compiled by Dave }} The production closed on June 14, 2009, after 113 performances.{{cite web|title=Playbill News: Adelaide's New Lament: Broadway's Guys and Dolls to Close June 14|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/130070-Adelaide%27s_New_Lament_Broadway%27s_Guys_and_Dolls_to_Close_June_14|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612021905/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/130070-Adelaide's_New_Lament_Broadway's_Guys_and_Dolls_to_Close_June_14|archive-date=June 12, 2009|access-date=June 23, 2009}}
Platt starred as White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser in Roland Emmerich's 2012, a disaster film released November 13, 2009. In August 2010, he was cast in the role of "The Man in Black" in 2011's X-Men spin-off, X-Men: First Class, directed by Matthew Vaughn.{{cite news|last=Fleming|first=Mike|date=August 16, 2010|title=Oliver Platt Joins X-Men: First Class|website=Deadline Hollywood|url=https://deadline.com/2010/08/oliver-platt-joins-x-men-first-class-61592/|access-date=August 16, 2010}} In 2012, he starred in the romantic comedy The Oranges alongside Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester{{cite web|title=The Oranges official website|url=http://welcometotheoranges.com/|access-date=September 4, 2012|website=Welcometooranges.com}} and appeared in the action film Chinese Zodiac. He provided the voice of Wiser the Owl in the 2013 animated film Dorothy of Oz.{{cite web|title=Dorothy of Oz official website|url=http://www.dorothyofoz.com/|access-date=September 4, 2012|website=Dorothyofoz.com}} He appeared in Miramax's 2016 supernatural thriller, The 9th Life of Louis Drax.{{cite web|title=Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Barbara Hershey And Aiden Longworth Join "The 9th Life of Louis Drax" As Production Begins In Vancouver|url=http://www.miramax.com/press/oliver-platt-molly-parker-barbara-hershey-and-aiden-longworth-join-9th-life-louis-drax-production-begins-vancouver/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509151226/https://www.miramax.com/press/oliver-platt-molly-parker-barbara-hershey-and-aiden-longworth-join-9th-life-louis-drax-production-begins-vancouver/|archive-date=May 9, 2018|access-date=July 1, 2016|website=Miramax.com}}
Personal life
Platt married Mary Camilla Bonsal Campbell on September 12, 1992 at the First Congregational Church in Kittery, Maine.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/13/style/weddings-camilla-campbell-oliver-platt.html|title=WEDDINGS; Camilla Campbell, Oliver Platt|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 13, 1992|access-date=March 10, 2008}} They have three children, born 1995, 1997 and 1999. As of 1998, Platt had an open airline ticket when filming so he could return home frequently because his family did not accompany him to filming locations. In a 1999 interview, Platt explained that he had chosen to focus on film and television rather than theater because of his family.{{Cite web|last=Writer|first=Dennis King World Entertainment|title=Swimming with the crocs|url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/swimming-with-the-crocs/article_f33950d1-a8bd-564f-8772-90405923a4c9.html|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Tulsa World|date=July 19, 1999 |language=en}} Platt has a home in North Haven, Maine.[http://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2014/06/star-map-of-north-haven-island/ Star Map of North Haven Island | Portland Magazine] Retrieved April 14, 2017.
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| rowspan="2" | 1988
| FBI Agent Ed Benitez | |
| Working Girl
| David Lutz | |
| 1989
| Crusoe | Mr. Newby | |
| rowspan="2" | 1990
| Randy Steckle | |
| Postcards from the Edge
| Neil Bleene | |
| rowspan="2" | 1992
| Harvey | |
| Diggstown
| Daniel Patrick O'Shannon 'Fitz' Fitzpatrick | |
| rowspan="4" | 1993
| The Temp | Hartsell | |
| Indecent Proposal
| Jeremy | |
| Benny & Joon
| Eric | |
| The Three Musketeers
| Porthos | |
| rowspan="3" | 1995
| |
| Funny Bones
| Tommy Fawkes | |
| The Infiltrator
| |
| rowspan="2" | 1996
| Dennis Cahill | |
| A Time to Kill
| Harry Rex Vonner | |
| rowspan="5" | 1998
| Maffio Venier | |
| Bulworth
| Dennis Murphy | |
| The Impostors
| Maurice | |
| Dr. Dolittle
| Dr. Mark Weller | |
| Simon Birch
| Ben Goodrich | |
| rowspan="4" | 1999
| Hector Cyr | |
| Three to Tango
| Peter Steinberg | |
| Bicentennial Man
| Rupert Burns | |
| CinderElmo
| Fairy Godperson | |
| rowspan="2" | 2000
| Jimmy 'The King' King | |
| Gun Shy
| Fulvio Nesstra | |
| 2001
| Dr. Louis Sachs | |
| rowspan="3" | 2002
| Victor Wallace | |
| Ash Wednesday
| Moran | |
| Zig Zag
| Mr.Walters / The Toad | |
| rowspan="2" | 2003
| Jim Burns | |
| Hope Springs
| Doug Reed | |
| 2004
| Kinsey | |
| rowspan="2" | 2005
| Pete Van Heuten | |
| Casanova
| Paprizzio | |
| rowspan="2" | 2007
| The Ten | Marc Jacobson | |
| Martian Child
| Jeff | |
| 2008
| |
| rowspan="3" | 2009
| Hades (voice) | Direct-to-DVD |
| Year One
| High Priest | |
| 2012
| Carl Anheuser | |
| rowspan="3" | 2010
| Alex | |
| Love & Other Drugs
| Bruce Jackson | |
| Letters to Juliet
| Bobby | Uncredited |
| 2011
| Man In Black Suit | |
| rowspan="3" | 2012
| Terry Ostroff | |
| Chinese Zodiac
| Lawrence | |
| Ginger & Rosa
| Activist | |
| rowspan="4" | 2013
| Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Wiser The Owl (voice) | |
| The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
| Lord Minister of The Right Abe (voice) | |
| Gods Behaving Badly
| |
| Lucky Them
| Giles | |
| rowspan="4" | 2014
| Chef | Ramsey Michel | |
| Kill the Messenger
| |
| Cut Bank
| Joe Barrett | |
| A Merry Friggin' Christmas
| Hobo Santa | |
| rowspan="2" | 2015
| Frank Garcia | |
| One More Time
| Alan Sternberg | |
| rowspan="5" | 2016
| Ken Roberts | |
| The Ticket
| Bob | |
| The 9th Life of Louis Drax
| Dr. Perez | |
| Shut In
| Dr. Wilson | |
| Rules Don't Apply
| Forester | |
| 2017
| {{Nowrap|Professor Marston and the Wonder Women}} | |
| 2020
| I'm Thinking of Ending Things | The Voice (voice) | |
| 2024
| Babes | Bernie | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1987
| Norm Jameson | Episode: "In the Money" |
| 1988
| 'Speed' Stiles | Episode: "Baseballs of Death" |
| 1990
| Wiseguy | Unknown | Episode: "Changes Houses" |
| 1995
| Yaron | Television movie |
| 2000–2001
| Deadline | Wallace Benton | 13 episodes |
| 2001–2005
| 8 episodes |
| 2003
| Judge Jack Moran | 13 episodes |
| 2004–2006
| Huff | Russell Tupper | 25 episodes |
| 2007–2008
| Nip/Tuck | Freddy Prune | 4 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2007
| Malcolm Tucker | Unsold TV pilot |
| {{sortname|The|Bronx Is Burning}}
| 8 episodes |
| 2009–2011
| Richard Antrem | 6 episodes |
| 2010–2013
| Paul Jamison | 40 episodes |
| 2012–2018
| Narrator (voice) | 11 episodes |
| 2014
| Fargo | Stavros Milos | 5 episodes |
| 2014–2017
| Everburn (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2015–2016
| rowspan="3" | Dr. Daniel Charles | 9 episodes |
| 2015–2023
| 8 episodes |
| {{Nowrap|2015–present}}
| 198 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2015
| R.D. | 3 episodes |
| Bessie
| Television movie |
| 2015–2017
| Martin | 2 episodes |
| 2016
| Documentary Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Next of Pin" |
| 2017
| Dr. Daniel Charles | 2 episodes |
| 2022–present
| The Bear | Uncle Jimmy | 8 episodes |
= Theatre =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role !Venue | |||
| 2006 | Shining City | John | Biltmore Theatre, Broadway |
| 2009 | Guys and Dolls | Nathan Detroit | Nederlander Theatre, Broadway |
= Video games =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role |
| 2001
| Luther-Dwayne Grady |
| 2006
| Scarface: The World Is Yours | |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
! scope="col" |Year ! scope="col" |Award ! scope="col" |Category ! scope="col" |Work ! scope="col" |Result |
| align="center"| 2001
| Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | {{nom}} |
| align="center"| 1998
| Blockbuster Entertainment Award | Favorite Supporting Actor – Comedy | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 2005
| Boston Society of Film Critics | {{nom}} |
| New York Film Critics Online Award
| Best Supporting Actor | rowspan="3"| Casanova | {{won}} |
| Boston Society of Film Critics
| {{nom}} |
| St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
| {{nom}} |
| Golden Globe Award
| Best Supporting Actor - Television | rowspan="3"| Huff | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2"| Primetime Emmy Award
| rowspan="2"| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 2006
| {{nom}} |
| Tony Award
| {{nom}} |
| align="center"| 2007
| Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | {{sortname|The|Bronx Is Burning}} | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 2008
| Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | Nip/Tuck | {{nom}} |
| Screen Actors Guild Award
| Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 2010
| Gotham Independent Film Award | rowspan="2"| Please Give | {{nom}} |
| Independent Spirit Awards
| {{won}} |
| align="center"| 2023
| Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | rowspan="2"| The Bear | {{nom}} |
| align="center"| 2024
| Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series | {{won}} |
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