Joseph Cotter Smith was born on May 29,1949 and is an American stage, film, and television actor.
11 Facts About Cotter Smith
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Cotter Smith was born in Washington, DC, the son of Madeline and John Lewis Smith, Jr.
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Cotter Smith began his acting career in New York City in 1978, studying with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio.
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Cotter Smith co-starred with Judd Hirsch in the National Tour of the Tony Award-winning play Art.
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Cotter Smith was a ten-year member of the Circle Repertory Company in New York working exclusively on the premiere productions of new American plays.
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Cotter Smith is a co-founder of The Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles, where he has appeared in The Seagull, The Homecoming, Endgame, Mad Forest, and Habeas Corpus.
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Cotter Smith's acting credits for the company include 12 Angry Men, Betrayal, Long Day's Journey into Night, and Educating Rita.
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Cotter Smith has received four Drama-Logue Awards and two Ovation Award nominations.
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Cotter Smith is an acting teacher, for the past six years at The New School for Drama in New York, where he served as the Department Head of the MFA Acting Program from 2015 to 2017.
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Cotter Smith has been married to Heidi Mueller Cotter Smith since 2001.
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Cotter Smith was previously married to actress Mel Harris, with whom he has his only child.