Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer, known for his work in musical theatre, television, and film.
53 Facts About Mandy Patinkin
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Mandy Patinkin is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received three Tony Award nominations, winning for his leading role in Evita, and seven Drama Desk Award nominations.
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Mandy Patinkin has received a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin is known for his leading roles in various shows on television, playing Dr Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope, SSA Jason Gideon in the crime-drama television series Criminal Minds, and Saul Berenson in the Showtime drama series Homeland.
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Mandy Patinkin has had recurring roles in Dead Like Me and The Good Fight.
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Over his career Mandy Patinkin has become known for his performances in film including his portrayal of Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's family adventure film The Princess Bride.
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Mandy Patinkin starred alongside Barbra Streisand in the musical epic Yentl, where he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination.
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Mandy Patinkin's mother wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook.
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Mandy Patinkin grew up in an upper-middle-class family, descended from Jewish immigrants, 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.
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Mandy Patinkin attended South Shore High School, Harvard St George School, and Kenwood High School, and graduated in 1970.
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Mandy Patinkin attended the University of Kansas and the Juilliard School.
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Mandy Patinkin starred alongside Meryl Streep, who played Imogen Parrott, and John Lithgow, who played Ferdinand Gadd.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin had his first success in musical theater when he played Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, which starred Patti LuPone, on Broadway in 1979.
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Mandy Patinkin went on to win the 1980 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in Evita.
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Mandy Patinkin then moved to film, playing parts in movies such as Yentl and Ragtime.
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Mandy Patinkin returned to Broadway in 1984 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, earning him another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.
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In 1987, Mandy Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, looking to avenge his father's death.
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On Broadway, Mandy Patinkin appeared in the musical The Secret Garden in 1991 and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical.
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Mandy Patinkin released two solo albums, titled Mandy Patinkin and Dress Casual.
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In 1994, Mandy Patinkin took the role of Dr Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was canceled in 2000.
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Since Chicago Hope, Mandy Patinkin has appeared in a number of films.
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Mandy Patinkin has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the United States.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.
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Mandy Patinkin was absent from a table read for Criminal Minds and did not return for a third season.
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Mandy Patinkin left apologetic letters for his fellow cast members explaining his reasons and wishing them luck.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin spoke of having planned to tour the world with a musical and wanting to inject more comedy into the entertainment business.
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On October 14,2009, it was announced that Mandy Patinkin would be a guest star on an episode of Three Rivers, which aired on November 15,2009.
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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.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin starred in the new musical Paradise Found, co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman, at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.
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Mandy Patinkin costarred with Claire Danes on the Showtime series Homeland, which aired from 2011 until 2020.
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Mandy Patinkin portrays counterterrorism operative Saul Berenson, protagonist Carrie Mathison's mentor.
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In 2018, Mandy Patinkin returned to recorded music with the album Diary: January 27,2018 which was produced by pianist Thomas Bartlett.
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In 2022, Mandy Patinkin was the narrator of the miniseries Indivisible: Healing Hate, a Paramount+ show documenting the events that lead to the insurrection of the Capitol on January 6,2021.
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Mandy Patinkin married actress and writer Kathryn Grody on April 15,1980.
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Mandy Patinkin has described himself as "Jewish with a dash of Buddhist" belief.
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Mandy Patinkin suffered from keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition, in the mid-1990s.
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Mandy Patinkin was diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer in 2004.
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Mandy Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities.
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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.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin contributed to the children's book Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again: A Musical Storybook, inspired by Christopher Reeve.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mandy Patinkin stumped for Biden in an ad for the Jewish Democratic Council of America encouraging Jews to vote for Biden.
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The ad featured Mandy Patinkin channeling his Princess Bride character to encourage people to vote.