69 Facts About Mandy Patinkin

Mandel "Mandy" Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer, known for his work in musical theatre, television, and film.

Mandy Patinkin made his theatre debut in 1975 starring opposite Meryl Streep in the revival of the comic play Trelawny of the "Wells" at The Public Theatre's Shakespeare Festival.

Mandy Patinkin portrayed Lord Archibald Craven in the original Broadway cast of Lucy Simon's The Secret Garden.

Mandy Patinkin replaced Michael Rupert as Marvin in William Finn's Falsettos on Broadway.

Mandy Patinkin starred as Burrs in The Wild Party and earned a second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Mandy Patinkin had leading roles in television shows, playing Dr Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope ; SSA Jason Gideon in the CBS crime-drama series Criminal Minds ; Saul Berenson in the Showtime drama series Homeland ; and Rufus Cotesworth in the Hulu mystery series Death and Other Details.

Mandy Patinkin had recurring roles in Dead Like Me and The Good Fight.

Mandy Patinkin had film roles portraying Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's family adventure film The Princess Bride and Avigdor in Barbra Streisand's musical epic Yentl for which he earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination.

Mandy Patinkin voiced roles in Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky and The Wind Rises.

Mandy Patinkin's mother wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook.

Mandy Patinkin grew up in an upper-middle-class family, descended from Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland, 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 Sura in Michigan.

Mandy Patinkin attended South Shore High School, Harvard St George School, and Kenwood High School, and graduated in 1970.

Mandy Patinkin attended the University of Kansas and the Juilliard School.

Mandy Patinkin starred alongside Meryl Streep, who played Imogen Parrott, and John Lithgow, who played Ferdinand Gadd.

From 1975 through 1976, Mandy Patinkin played the Player King and Fortinbras, Prince of Norway in a Broadway revival of Hamlet, with Sam Waterston in the leading role.

Mandy Patinkin had his first film role as a Pool Man in the political comedy The Big Fix starring Richard Dreyfus, John Lithgow, and F Murray Abraham.

Mandy Patinkin had his first success in musical theater when he starred as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, opposite Patti LuPone, on Broadway in 1979.

James Lardner of The Washington Post wrote, "Mandy Patinkin gives a sympathetic, consistent and rather sweet performance".

Mandy Patinkin won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance.

Mandy Patinkin received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.

Mandy Patinkin took film roles in Milos Forman's historical drama Ragtime playing Tateh and Sidney Lumet's drama Daniel portraying Paul Isaacson.

Corliss wrote, "For her male co-star she hired Mandy Patinkin, who has wrapped his crystalline Broadway tenor voice around Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, then gave him no songs to sing".

Mandy Patinkin worked hard to get to know me for what I am.

Mandy Patinkin returned to Broadway to star in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, in which he played the pointillist artist Georges Seurat and his fictional great-grandson George.

Mandy Patinkin earned nominations for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.

Mandy Patinkin returned to the show on August 5,1985, until the show closed two months later.

Mandy Patinkin's performance was captured on film and shown on television as a part of American Playhouse.

In 1985 Mandy Patinkin took a leading role in the romantic fantasy comedy Maxie opposite Glenn Close.

Mandy Patinkin acted opposite Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Andre the Giant, and Billy Crystal.

Mandy Patinkin portrayed Alfred de Musset in James Lapine's period drama Impromptu starring Hugh Grant, Judy Davis, Emma Thompson, and reunited with Bernadette Peters.

On Broadway, Mandy Patinkin appeared as Lord Archibald Craven opposite Rebecca Luker and Robert Westenberg in the musical The Secret Garden in 1991 and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical.

Mandy Patinkin released two solo albums, titled Mandy Patinkin and Dress Casual.

In 1995, Mandy Patinkin sang the role of Billy Bigelow in a concert performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at the BBC Radio Theatre.

In 1994, Mandy Patinkin took the role of Dr Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

However, despite the award and the ratings success of the show, Mandy Patinkin left the show during the second season because he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife and children.

Mandy Patinkin returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was canceled in 2000.

Since Chicago Hope, Mandy Patinkin has appeared in a number of films.

Mandy Patinkin acted in numerous films such as the drama The Doctor, The Music of Chance, the comedy Life with Mikey, the action adventure Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, and the romantic mystery Lulu on the Bridge.

Mandy Patinkin has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the United States.

In 1999, Mandy Patinkin co-starred in the second Sesame Street film, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, as Huxley, an abusive, childish, sadistic, and greedy man with abnormally large eyebrows, who steals whatever he can grab and then claims it as his own.

Mandy Patinkin returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, portraying Burrs acting opposite Toni Collette as Queenie.

Mandy Patinkin was absent from a table read for Criminal Minds and did not return for a third season.

Mandy Patinkin left apologetic letters for his fellow cast members explaining his reasons and wishing them luck.

Many weeks before his departure, in a videotaped interview carried in the online magazine Monaco Revue, Mandy Patinkin told journalists at the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo that he loathed violence on television and was uncomfortable with certain scenes in Criminal Minds.

Mandy Patinkin spoke of having planned to tour the world with a musical and wanting to inject more comedy into the entertainment business.

In 2008, Mandy Patinkin portrayed Prospero in an off-Broadway musical production of The Tempest opposite Elisabeth Waterston and Michael Potts.

Mandy Patinkin played a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease injured in a car accident who asks the doctors at Three Rivers Hospital to take him off life support so his organs can be donated.

Mandy Patinkin filmed an appearance on The Whole Truth that had been scheduled to air December 15,2010, but ABC pulled the series from its schedule two weeks prior.

Mandy Patinkin starred in the new musical Paradise Found, co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman, at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.

Mandy Patinkin costarred with Claire Danes on the Showtime series Homeland, which aired from 2011 until 2020.

Mandy Patinkin portrays counterterrorism operative Saul Berenson, protagonist Carrie Mathison's mentor.

Mandy Patinkin's stint was filled in for by the show's Pierre standby Scott Stangland and creator of the musical Dave Malloy.

In 2018, Mandy Patinkin returned to recorded music with the album Diary: January 27,2018 which was produced by pianist Thomas Bartlett.

Mandy Patinkin voiced Papa Smurf in the live-action comedy film Smurfs: The Lost Village opposite Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, and Julia Roberts.

Also in 2022, Mandy Patinkin was the narrator of the miniseries Indivisible: Healing Hate, a Paramount+ show documenting the events that led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

In 2024, Mandy Patinkin starred as Rufus Cotesworth, a renowned former detective, now heading private security for a business family, in ABC Studios' TV Series Death and Other Details.

Mandy Patinkin married actress and writer Kathryn Grody on April 15,1980.

Mandy Patinkin suffered from keratoconus, a progressive eye condition, in the mid-1990s.

Mandy Patinkin was diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer in 2004.

Mandy Patinkin has described himself as "Jewish with a dash of Buddhist" belief.

Mandy Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities.

Mandy Patinkin 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, Mandy 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 organization.

On December 21,2015, on Charlie Rose on PBS, Mandy Patinkin spoke about his recent trip to Greece to help refugees from war-torn Syria and his acting role in the television series Homeland.

Mandy Patinkin contributed to the children's book Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again: A Musical Storybook, inspired by Christopher Reeve.

The award-winning book, published in 2005, benefits the Christopher Reeve Foundation and includes an audio CD with Mandy Patinkin singing and reading the story as well as Dana Reeve and Bernadette Peters singing.

Later that year, Grody and Mandy Patinkin partnered with Swing Left, creating viral videos with their sons to encourage people to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election.

Mandy Patinkin stumped for Biden in an ad for the Jewish Democratic Council of America encouraging Jews to vote for Biden.

The ad featured Mandy Patinkin channeling his Princess Bride character to encourage people to vote.