1. Fred Melamed was born on May 13,1956 and is an American actor.
20 Facts About Fred Melamed
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Fred Melamed was adopted by a secular Jewish family, Louis Melamed, a Manhattan television producer, and his wife, Syma Melamed, a sometime actress and housewife.
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Fred Melamed's biological father was a relative of the prominent Adler acting family, including Luther and Stella Adler.
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Fred Melamed attended the Hunter College Elementary School, a primary school for gifted children, and Riverdale Country School.
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Fred Melamed has said that he was raised in a non-believer Jewish family who never went to synagogue, except to attend a cousin's bar mitzvah.
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Fred Melamed began his theatrical training at Hampshire College, where he worked with Tina Packer, John Guare, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and members of The Living Theatre.
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Fred Melamed was a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the most promising young actors in the United States.
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Fred Melamed's voice became a familiar presence on television, serving as the sound of the Olympics, Mercedes-Benz, CBS Sports, USA Network, the Super Bowl, and numerous commercials and television programs.
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Fred Melamed became known within the industry as a voice actor, appearing in the Grand Theft Auto series, and dubbing several actors' entire performances in films.
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Fred Melamed has appeared in more Allen movies than any other actor besides Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.
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Fred Melamed has appeared in Radio Days, Another Woman, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Shadows and Fog, Husbands and Wives, and Hollywood Ending.
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The character Fred Melamed contrives is the year's most brilliant force of destruction.
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On television, Fred Melamed starred with Maria Bamford in the Netflix comedy Lady Dynamite, on FX's Emmy Award-winning Fargo, Hulu's Golden Globe Award-nominated Casual, the Fox comedy New Girl, and Verizon Go90's sports send-up Now We're Talking.
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Fred Melamed appeared in 2 episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine as fantasy author DC Parlov.
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Fred Melamed appeared in the Sundance film Lemon, a collaboration with Brett Gelman and Janicza Bravo, Brawl in Cell Block 99 opposite Vince Vaughn, Sean McGinly's Silver Lake, which he starred in with Martin Starr, and Dragged Across Concrete.
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Fred Melamed had previously starred as Sam in Lake Bell's In a World.
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On Broadway in 2011, after a long hiatus from the theatre, Fred Melamed originated the roles of The Father in Ethan Coen's Talking Cure, and Thomas Moran in Elaine May's George Is Dead, two of the one-act plays that comprised Relatively Speaking.
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In 2019, Fred Melamed acted in the crime thriller Lying and Stealing alongside Theo James and Emily Ratajkowski.
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Fred Melamed joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in WandaVision as Arthur Hart, Vision's boss.
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In 2021, Fred Melamed was named by a host of prominent critics and film professionals in Vulture and New York Magazine as one of "The 32 Greatest Character Actors Working Today".