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Oliver Platt

Acting

Born January 12, 1960 · Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Also known as Oliver James Platt

Biography

Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers (both 1993), Executive Decision, A Time to Kill (both 1996), Dangerous Beauty, Bulworth, The Impostors, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Ready to Rumble, Gun Shy (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Zig Zag (2002), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Martian Child (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), X-Men: First Class, The Oranges (both 2011), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013), Frank and Cindy and One More Time (both 2015).

Awards & recognition

  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2006 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Rachel Carson

2017as Self - Narrator (voice)

Chicago P.D.

2014as Dr. Daniel Charles

Henry Ford

2013as Narrator (voice)

Chicago Fire

2012as Dr. Daniel Charles

Chicago Med

2015as Dr. Daniel Charles

Fargo

2014as Stavros Milos

The West Wing

1999as Oliver Babish

The Bear

2022as Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski

American Comandante

2015as Self - Narrator (voice)

Prohibition

2011as Reader / Al Capone (voice)

Modern Family

2009as Martin

Into the Amazon

2018as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Pilgrims

2015as Self - Narrator (voice)

Huff

2004as Russell Tupper

The Good Wife

2009as R.D.

The Bombing of Wall Street

2018as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Big Burn

2015as Self - Narrator (voice)

Miami Vice

1984as Speed Stiles

A Time to Kill

1996as Harry Rex Vonner

X-Men: First Class

2011as Man in Black Suit

Bored to Death

2009as Richard Antrem

Frost/Nixon

2008as Bob Zelnick

Bicentennial Man

1999as Rupert Burns

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

2017as M.C. Gaines

Sofia the First

2013as Everburn (voice)

The Big C

2010as Paul Jamison

Wonder Woman

2009as Hades (voice)

Nip/Tuck

2003as Freddy Prune

Chef

2014as Ramsey Michel

Love & Other Drugs

2010as Bruce Winston

Letters to Juliet

2010as New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited)

Dangerous Beauty

1998as Maffio Venier

Big Night

1996Associate Producer

Benny & Joon

1993as Eric

NOVA

1974as Narrator

Klansville U.S.A.

2015as Self - Narrator (voice)

Simon Birch

1998as Ben Goodrich

Martian Child

2007as Jeff

Kill the Messenger

2014as Jerry Ceppos

Love, Marilyn

2012as Self

Kinsey

2004as Herman Wells

Funny Bones

1995as Tommy Fawkes

Postcards from the Edge

1990as Neil Bleene

American Experience

1988as Narrator (voice)

Working Girl

1988as Lutz

Wiseguy

1987

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020as The Voice (voice)

Pieces of April

2003as Jim Burns

Flatliners

1990as Randy Steckle

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

2016as Dr. Perez