"The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor."
Oliver James Platt (born January 12, 1960) is an award-winning Canadian-American actor. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, to American parents. Because of his father’s career as a diplomat, Platt attended twelve different schools all over the world, but it was a trip to the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts that sparked his interest in acting, by way of a monologue by a young Morgan Freeman. Thereafter, drama departments gave his childhood some stability.
Platt tends to prefer variety in his acting roles, choosing each successive role by how much it interests him and how different it is from the previous role.
Works:
Film- 2012
- Beethoven
- Benny & Joon
- Bicentennial Man
- Bulworth
- Casanova
- Chef (2014)
- Cut Bank
- Dangerous Beauty
- Diggstown
- Don't Say a Word
- Dr. Dolittle
- Executive Decision
- Flatliners
- Frost/Nixon
- The Ice Harvest
- The Impostors
- Indecent Proposal
- Kill the Messenger
- Kinsey
- Lake Placid
- Letters to Juliet
- Love & Other Drugs
- Loverboy (2005)
- Married to the Mob
- Martian Child
- Postcards from the Edge
- Ready to Rumble
- Shut In
- Tall Tale
- The Three Musketeers (1993)
- Three to Tango
- A Time to Kill
- Working Girl
- X-Men: First Class
- Year One
- Zig Zag (2002)
Television
- The Big C
- Bored to Death
- The Equalizer
- Fargo
- The Good Wife
- Huff
- Miami Vice
- Modern Family
- Nip/Tuck
- One Chicago
- The West Wing
- Wiseguy
Voice Acting
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
- Scarface: The World Is Yours
- SSX Tricky
- Sofia the First
- Wonder Woman
