Oliver Platt has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award.
30 Facts About Oliver Platt
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Oliver Platt has appeared in numerous television series, including The Big C, and Fargo.
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Oliver Platt portrayed George Steinbrenner in the series The Bronx Is Burning.
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Oliver Platt made his Broadway debut in the Conor McPherson play Shining City for which he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.
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Oliver Platt returned to Broadway portraying Nathan Detroit in the 2009 revival of the Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls.
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Oliver Platt's older brother, Adam Platt, is a New York magazine restaurant critic.
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Oliver Platt's brother William Gardner Choate, who was a prominent lawyer and federal judge, created Choate Rosemary Hall.
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Oliver Platt stood there on stage alone before the curtain went up, and he held this audience utterly rapt.
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Oliver Platt attended a progressive boarding school named Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado.
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Oliver Platt majored in drama at Tufts University, where he met and became close friends with Hank Azaria.
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Oliver Platt obtained an agent while working at Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, and met actor Bill Murray at his cousin's Christmas party.
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Murray attended Oliver Platt's show and recommended Oliver Platt to director Jonathan Demme, who cast him in Married to the Mob in 1988.
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Tucci and Oliver Platt developed the characters while working on a play at Yale University in 1988, with Tucci later completing the screenplay and directing the film.
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In 1999, Platt played the wealthy and eccentric crocodile enthusiast Hector in David E Kelley's Lake Placid, alongside Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda.
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Oliver Platt starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Wallace Benton, an "unlikely hero".
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Oliver Platt received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of no-nonsense White House Counsel Oliver Babish, brought in during season two to compile a defense for President Bartlet and others who covered up his non-disclosure of multiple sclerosis.
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Oliver Platt's work was nominated for two Emmy awards and a Golden Globe.
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In 2005, Oliver Platt acted in Harold Ramis's film The Ice Harvest as an unhappy businessman with a trophy wife and two stepchildren who becomes involved with a friend who has stolen $2 million from a Mafia boss.
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Oliver Platt played a lard merchant named Papprizzio in Lasse Hallstrom's Casanova, who competes with Casanova for marriage to Francesca.
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Oliver Platt won the New York Film Critics Online Award for best supporting actor for his role in Casanova.
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The play was set in Dublin, and Oliver Platt's role was the tortured protagonist, John.
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Oliver Platt has brought to the role of John what I expected and more: tremendous inventiveness and sensitivity.
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Oliver Platt was nominated for a Tony award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play".
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In 2007, Oliver Platt played the part of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in the ESPN mini-series The Bronx Is Burning.
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Oliver Platt starred as Nathan Detroit, alongside Lauren Graham as Miss Adelaide, in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls which began performances at the Nederlander Theatre on February 3,2009, and officially opened on March 1,2009.
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Oliver Platt starred as White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser in Roland Emmerich's 2012, a disaster film released November 13,2009.
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Oliver Platt provided the voice of Wiser the Owl in the 2013 animated film Dorothy of Oz.
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Oliver Platt appeared in Miramax's 2016 supernatural thriller, The 9th Life of Louis Drax.
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Oliver Platt married Mary Camilla Bonsal Campbell on September 12,1992, at the First Congregational Church in Kittery, Maine.
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However, Oliver Platt was unable to return to the Tufts campus, and the 2008 award was instead given to Jeff Kindler, chief executive of pharmaceutical company Pfizer.