1. Adam Arkin was born on August 19,1956 and is an American actor and director.
18 Facts About Adam Arkin
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Adam Arkin is best known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope.
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Adam Arkin has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards, and a DGA Award.
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In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky.
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Adam Arkin is one of the three actors to portray Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck on Monk.
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Adam Arkin's brother Matthew is an actor, as was his father, Alan Arkin.
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Adam Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to actor, director and writer Alan Adam Arkin and his first wife Jeremy Yaffe.
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Adam Arkin joined his parents singing in the children's music group the Baby Sitters, along with Lee Hays and Doris Willens.
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Adam Arkin graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York.
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In 1975, Adam Arkin guest-starred in an episode of the award-winning television show Happy Days, and an episode of Barney Miller.
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Adam Arkin played a white separatist leader named Ethan Zobelle during the second season of the series Sons of Anarchy.
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Adam Arkin played the part of a divorce lawyer in A Serious Man, directed by Ethan and Joel Coen.
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Adam Arkin played a minor role in the radio dramatization of Star Wars as the voice of Fixer.
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Adam Arkin provided character voice work for the Emmy-winning series The National Parks: America's Best Idea.
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Adam Arkin won an Emmy for directing the Showtime television film My Louisiana Sky.
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Adam Arkin is a co-executive producer of the television series Get Shorty.
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Adam Arkin has a daughter, Molly, with his first wife, Linda.
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Adam Arkin was married to Phyllis Anne Lyons from 1999 to 2013, and they had one son together.