1. Tony Goldwyn made his debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film Ghost, which earned him a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Tony Goldwyn went on to star as Harold Nixon in the biographical film Nixon, which earned him a SAG Award nomination, and as Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
Tony Goldwyn voiced the titular character in the Disney animated film Tarzan, and portrayed Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, Johnathon "John" Collingwood in the horror film The Last House on the Left, Andrew Prior in the Divergent film series and Paul Cohen in King Richard, the latter of which earned him a second SAG Award nomination.
Tony Goldwyn starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III on Scandal while directing a number of episodes, for which he won a Peabody Award.
Tony Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Tony Goldwyn Jr.
Tony Goldwyn attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Tony Goldwyn additionally studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.
Tony Goldwyn had his breakthrough for playing Carl Bruner, friend-turned-betrayer of Patrick Swayze's character Sam Wheat, in the fantasy thriller Ghost.
Tony Goldwyn appeared on the comedy series Designing Women, in which he played a young interior designer named Kendall Dobbs, an HIV-positive man who was dying from AIDS and who asked the women of Sugarbakers to design his funeral.
Tony Goldwyn voiced the title character in the 1999 animated feature film Tarzan which was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and grossed over $400 million.
Tony Goldwyn reprised the role in the video games Disney's Tarzan Untamed and Kingdom Hearts.
Tony Goldwyn had acting and directing duties for the first season of Dexter for Showtime.
Tony Goldwyn played JD Sheldrake, the philandering business executive, in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth.
Tony Goldwyn played Captain von Trapp in a concert performance of The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall on April 25,2012.
In 2013, Tony Goldwyn was cast in the Lifetime original film, Outlaw Prophet, as Warren Jeffs.
In June 2018, Tony Goldwyn was cast as Ben Lefevre in the Netflix supernatural series Chambers.
On 20 January 2021 during the inauguration of Joe Biden, Tony Goldwyn was the host of the Virtual Parade Across America aired on television networks, organized by the Biden Inaugural Committee.
Also in 2021, Tony Goldwyn appeared in King Richard, which was acclaimed and earned several accolades.
In 2023, Tony Goldwyn played Theodore Roosevelt in an Audible audiobook recording of the autobiography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and had a supporting role in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
Tony Goldwyn has been married to Jane Michelle Musky, a production designer, since 1987.
Additionally, Tony Goldwyn's brother John is a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of Dexter.
Tony Goldwyn's brother Peter is a film producer and the current President of Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Tony Goldwyn was an avid supporter of Hillary Clinton and in 2016 directed a commercial featuring his Scandal co-star Kerry Washington, as well as Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Shonda Rhimes to support Clinton's presidential campaign.