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Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (; born November 30, 1952) is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim , and is best known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George , Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden (musical)|The Secret Garden , Burrs in The Wild Party (LaChiusa musical)|The Wild Party and Che in the original Broadway production of Evita (musical)|Evita .

He has appeared in television series such as Chicago Hope , Dead Like Me and the first two seasons of Criminal Minds . He currently plays Saul Berenson in the Showtime (TV network)|Showtime series Homeland (TV series)|Homeland . His best-known film role was as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride in 1987. Other film roles include Alien Nation (film)|Alien Nation (1988), Yentl (film)|Yentl (1983), Dick Tracy (1990 film)|Dick Tracy , and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999).

Early years

Patinkin was born in Chicago , Illinois , of Russian Jews|Russian and Jews in Poland|Polish Jewish descent, the son of Doris "Doralee" Sinton, a homemaker, and Lester Patinkin, who worked for the People's Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America.
His mother wrote ''Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook''. Patinkin's cousins include:

Mark Patinkin , author and nationally Print syndication|syndicated columnist for The Providence Journal

Sheldon Patinkin of Columbia College Chicago 's Theater Department, and a founder of The Second City .

Patinkin grew up in a middle class Jewish family and was raised in Conservative Judaism ,
attending religious school daily "from the age of seven to 13 or 14" and singing in synagogue choirs, as well as attending the Camp Surah in Michigan .

He attended South Shore High School, Kenwood Academy See image 32.
(1970 graduate), the University of Kansas , and Juilliard School . At Juilliard, he was a classmate of Kelsey Grammer . When the producers of the popular American sitcom Cheers were auditioning for the role of Dr. Frasier Crane , Patinkin put Grammer's name forward.

Career

After some TV commercial and radio appearances, including the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974, Patinkin had his first success in musical theater , where he played the part of Che in Evita (musical)|Evita on Broadway theatre|Broadway in 1979. Patinkin went on to win that year's Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical . He then moved to film , playing parts in movies such as Yentl (film)|Yentl and Ragtime (film)|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).

Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner 's 1987 The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride (which Patinkin considers his favorite role), in which he delivers the iconic line, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Patinkin found his studies a huge asset in The Princess Bride , playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, short of the main character, and part of his role included proficiency in fencing at a professional level. Over the next decade he continued to appear in movies, such as Dick Tracy (1990 film)|Dick Tracy and Alien Nation (film)|Alien Nation .

On Broadway, over the next decade, he appeared in the musical The Secret Garden (musical)|The Secret Garden . He also released two solo albums, titled Mandy Patinkin (1989) cduniverse.com, accessed November 24, 2011 and Dress Casual (1990). cduniverse.com, accessed November 24, 2011

In 1994, he took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS ' Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award . However, despite the award and the ratings success of the show, Patinkin left the show during the second season, as he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife. He returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was later cancelled in 2000. Since Chicago Hope , Patinkin has appeared in a number of films. However, he has mostly performed as a singer, releasing three more albums. In 1995 he guest starred in The Simpsons in the episode " Lisa's Wedding " as Hugh Parkfield, Lisa Simpson|Lisa 's future England|English groom.

In 1998, he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen , a collection of traditional, classic, and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish ("Mamaloshen" is Yiddish for "mother tongue"). 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 ).

In 1999 he co-starred in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland as the villainous Huxley, who tries to steal Elmo 's blanket.
He returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival's The Wild Party (LaChiusa musical)|The Wild Party , earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor (Musical). Recently, he has also been seen in the Showtime (TV network)|Showtime dramedy|comedy-drama Dead Like Me as Rube John Sofer|Rube Sofer . In 2004, he played a six–week engagement of his one–man concert at the Off Broadway complex Dodger Stages.

In September 2005, he debuted in the role of Jason Gideon , an experienced offender profiling|profiler just coming back to work after a series of nervous breakdown s, in the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds .

Patinkin was absent from a table read for Criminal Minds and did not return for a third season. The departure from the show was not due to contractual or salary matters, but over creative differences. He left letters for his fellow cast member apologising explaining his reasons and wishing them luck. Many weeks before his departure, in a videotaped interview carried in the online magazine Monaco Revue , Patinkin told journalists at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo that he loathed violence on television and was uncomfortable with certain scenes in Criminal Minds .

He spoke of having planned to tour the world with a musical and wanting to inject more comedy into the entertainment business. The dark and violent nature of the show got to be too much for Patinkin, and in later episodes during the 2007-08 season, Jason Gideon was written out of the series, and replaced by Special Agent David Rossi (played by Joe Mantegna ).

On October 14, 2009, it was announced that Patinkin would be a guest-star on an episode of Three Rivers (TV series)|Three Rivers , which aired on November 15, 2009. He played a patient with Lou Gehrig's Disease injured in a car accident who asks the doctors at Three Rivers hospital to pull him off life support so his organs can be donated. He filmed an appearance on The Whole Truth (TV series)|The Whole Truth that had been scheduled to air December 15, 2010, but ABC pulled the series from its schedule two weeks prior.

He starred in the new musical Paradise Found (2010 musical)|Paradise Found , co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman , at the Menier Chocolate Factory , London. The musical played a limited engagement from May 2010 through June 26, 2010.Jones, Kenneth.. May 26, 2010

Patinkin and Patti Lupone performed their concert An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin on Broadway for a limited 63-performance run starting November 21, 2011, at the Barrymore Theatre , and which ended on January 13, 2012. This concert marks the first time the pair has performed together on Broadway since they appeared together in Evita . pattiandmandyonbroadway.comIsherwood, Charles. The New York Times , November 21, 2011

Personal life

Patinkin married actress and writer Kathryn Grody in 1980. They have two sons, Isaac and Gideon. Gideon joined his father onstage in Dress Casual in 2011.

Patinkin suffered from keratoconus , a degenerative eye disease, in the mid-1990s. This led to two corneal Organ transplant|transplants , his right cornea in 1997 and his left in 1998.Moran, Reed W. USA Today , March 6, 2001 He also was diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer in 2004.Shipp, Laura. copingmag.com, January/February 2009 He celebrated his first year of recovery in 2005 by doing a 280-mile charity bike ride with his son, Isaac — the Arava Institute Hazon Israel Ride: Cycling for Peace, Partnership & Environmental Protection.Staff , May 22, 2005

Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities. He sings in Yiddish , often in concert, and on his album Mamaloshen .Solomont, E.B. forward.com, June 10, 2005 He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album , by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, and ''Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations, by his mother, Doralee Patinkin Rubin.

In May 2012, Patinkin delivered the opening speech at the "Annual Convention of the Israeli Left", where he recounted his experiences during a visit to the west bank with members of the "breaking the silence" organizationMandy Patinkin Speaking at Peace Now Conference .

Patinkin contributed to the children's book Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again: A Musical Storybook inspired by Christopher Reeve prior to Christopher and Dana Reeve 's deaths. The award-winning book, published in 2005, benefits the Christopher Reeve Foundation and includes an audio CD with Patinkin singing and reading the story as well as Dana Reeve and Bernadette Peters singing.

He resides part time in Creede, Colorado.

Awards

;Awards

1980: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical - Evita

1987: CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special - Sunday in the Park with George

1995: Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope

;Nominations

1984: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture in a Comedy/Musical - Yentl

1990: Saturn Awards Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Supporting Actor - Alien Nation

1995: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Drama - Chicago Hope

1995: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope

1996: Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - The Larry Sanders Show: "Eight"

1999: Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope: "Curing Cancer"

2003: DVD Exclusive Award for Best Original Song in a DVD, Premiere Movie - Run Ronnie Run: "How High the Mountain"

Work

Stage

;Broadway

Evita (musical)|Evita (1979) – Che ( Tony Award , 1980)

Sunday in the Park with George (1984) – Georges Seurat/George ( Tony Award Nominee, 1984)

Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual (1989)

The Secret Garden (musical)|The Secret Garden (1991) – Archibald Craven

Falsettos (1993) – Marvin (Replacement)

Sunday in the Park with George (Tenth Anniversary Concert) (1994) – George

Mandy Patinkin in Concert (1997)

Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Mamaloshen (1998)

The Wild Party (LaChiusa musical)|The Wild Party (2000) – Burrs ( Tony Award Nominee, 2000)

Celebrating Stephen Sondheim|Sondheim

An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin (2011)

;Other theater

Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theater Festival)

Henry IV, Part I

'' The Winter's Tale

The Knife

Leave It to Beaver is Dead

'' Trelawny of the 'Wells'|Trelawny of the Wells (1975) – Mr. Arthur Gower

Hamlet (1975–76) – Fortinbras, Player King

Rebel Woman

The Shadow Box (1977) – Mark

The Split and Savages

Follies in Concert (1985) - Buddy Plummer sondheimguide.com, accessed November 24, 2011

The Tempest (2008) (Classic Stage Company)

Compulsion (by Rinne Groff ) (2010–2011) (Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and The Public Theatre) - Sid SilverBrantley, Ben. The New York Times , February 17, 2011

Paradise Found (2010) (Menier Chocolate Factory, London, UK) - Eunuch

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1978	The Big Fix	Pool Man
1979	French Postcards	Sayyid
1979	Last Embrace	First Commuter
1980	Night of the Juggler	Allesandro the Cabbie
1981	Ragtime	Tateh
1983	Yentl	Avigdor
1983	Daniel	Paul Isaacson
1985	Maxie	Nick
1986	Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta	(voice: English version) – Louis
1987	The Princess Bride	Inigo Montoya
1988	Alien Nation	Detective Samuel 'George' Francisco
1988	The House on Carroll Street	Ray Salwen
1990	Dick Tracy	88 Keys
1991	True Colors	John Palmeri
	Impromptu	Alfred de Musset
	The Doctor	Dr. Murray Kaplan
1993	The Music of Chance	Jim Nashe
1993	Life with Mikey	Irate Man
1994	'' Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	Brother Daniel
1998	Lulu On The Bridge	Philip Kleinman
1998	Men with Guns	Andrew
1999	The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland	Huxley
2001	Piñero	Joseph Papp
2002	Run Ronnie Run	as himself, portraying Ronnie Dobbs
2005	The Choking Man	Rick
2006	'' Everyone's Hero	(voice) - Stanley Irving
2010	4.3.2.1 ... The Countdown Begins	Jago L

Television

Year	Title	Role
1978	That Thing on ABC	Performer
1978	Taxi (TV series)	Alan in "Memories of Cab 804 (Part 2)."
1979	Charleston	Beaudine Croft
1986	Sunday in the Park with George	Georges Seurat/ George
1994-1995	Chicago Hope	Dr. Jeffrey Geiger
1997	The Hunchback	Quasimodo
	The Larry Sanders Show	Himself
	Law & Order - (Season 13, episode 290)	Levi March in "Absentia"
	The Simpsons - (Season 6, episode 19)	Hugh Parkfield in " Lisa's Wedding "
	Touched by an Angel - (Season 7, episode 23)	Satan
1996	Broken Glass	Dr. Harry Hyman
1999	Strange Justice	Kenneth Duberstein
2003-2004	Dead Like Me	Rube Sofer
2004	NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323	Al Cummings
2005-2007	Criminal Minds	Jason Gideon
2009	Three Rivers	Victor, an ALS Patient
2011-	Homeland	Saul Berenson

;Television commercials

7 Up (1970)

Frosted Mini-Wheats (1971) (the first Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats commercial)

Crestor (2006) (a statin drug that lowers Low-density lipoprotein|LDL Cholesterol )

Discography

Evita (musical)|Evita (cast album, 1978)

Sunday in the Park with George (cast album, 1984)

South Pacific (London Studio Cast) (1986)

Mandy Patinkin (1989)

Dress Casual (1990)

The Secret Garden (musical)|The Secret Garden (cast album,1991)

Experiment (1994)

Oscar & Steve (1995)

Man of La Mancha (with Placido Domingo) (1996)

Mamaloshen (1998)

'' Myths and Hymns (cast album, 1999)Suskin, Steven. playbill.com, March 21, 1999

The Wild Party (LaChiusa musical)|The Wild Party (cast album, 2000)

Kidults (2001)

Mandy Patinkin sings Sondheim (2002)

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