Oliver Platt Biography
Summary
"Oliver James Platt" (born January 12, 1960) is an American film and television actor.
Biography
Personal life
Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to American parents Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad, and Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as US ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines. His paternal grandparents were Geoffrey Platt, a prominent American society architect (by whom he has remote Dutch American ancestry), and wife Helen Choate, and he is also related to Diana, Princess of Wales, through their shared descent from the American heiress Frances Work. He has two brothers, older Adam and younger Nicholas, Jr. Platt grew up in the United States, moving to Washington, D.C. shortly after his birth. He graduated from Tufts University. In 1993, he married Camilla Campbell, and they have three children, Lily (b. 1995), George (b. 1997), and Claire (b. 1999).
His mother, Sheila Maynard, was the daughter of Eileen Burden, Mrs. Maynard and later Mrs. Robins (October 15, 1910 – March 24, 1970) and a granddaughter of the Hon. Cynthia Burke-Roche (October 4, 1884 – August 12, 1966), who married firstly Arthur Scott Burden (August 11, 1879 – June 15, 1921) in 1906, and secondly Guy Fairfax Cary Sr. (November 14, 1879 – August 27, 1950) in 1922. Cynthia was the sister of Edmund Maurice Burke-Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy in the Peerage of Ireland (of Irish and English extraction and son of the American heiress Frances Ellen Work), who was the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. In the 1950s, his great-grandmother the Hon. Cynthia Burke-Roche resided at the famous Elm Court mansion in Newport, Rhode Island.
Career
From 2004 to 2006, Platt starred as lawyer Russell Tupper in "Huff", for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He also played Oliver Babish, White House Counsel, on the TV show "The West Wing".
To family-film audiences, he is primarily known as 'Porthos the Pirate' in Disney's "The Three Musketeers", and as cyberneticist Rupert Burns in Chris Columbus' 1999 drama "Bicentennial Man", starring opposite Robin Williams.
He performed the voice of Luther in EA Game's second installment of the SSX snowboarding games and appears as himself in the DVD content. Platt played the part of Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner in the ESPN mini-series 'The Bronx is Burning'.
Filmography
"Working Girl" (1988)
"Flatliners" (1990)
"Beethoven" (1992)
"Diggstown" (1992)
"Indecent Proposal" (1993)
"The Three Musketeers" (1993)
"Benny & Joon" (1993)
"Tall Tale: Unbelievable Adventure" (1995)
"Funny Bones" (1995)
"The Infiltrator" (1995)
"Executive Decision" (1996)
"A Time to Kill" (1996)
"Bulworth" (1998)
"Dangerous Beauty (1998)
"The Impostors" (1998)
"Dr. Dolittle" (1998)
"Simon Birch" (1998)
"Lake Placid" (1999)
"Three to Tango" (1999)
"Bicentennial Man" (1999)
"Ready to Rumble" (2000)
"Gun Shy" (2000)
"The West Wing" (2001, 2005)
"Liberty Stands Still" (2002)
"Pieces of April" (2003)
"Hope Springs" (2003)
"Kinsey" (2004)
"The Ice Harvest" (2005)
"Casanova" (2005)
"The Ten (2007)
"The Bronx is Burning (2007)
"Huff (2006-2007)
"Nip/Tuck (2007)
External links
(Oliver Platt) at the (Internet Broadway Database)
(Oliver Platt) at the (Internet Off-Broadway Database)
(Food Bank For New York City public service announcement)
Credit
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article about Oliver Platt.
