Mandy Patinkin
Biography
Mandy Patinkin is an American actor and singer who has worked in musical theater, television and film. He began on the New York stage in 1975 opposite Meryl Streep in Trelawny of the Wells, then played Che in the original Broadway staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, a performance that won him the Tony for best featured actor in a musical. He took the part of Georges Seurat in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (1986) and earned another Tony nomination for The Wild Party. Among his films are Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (1987) and Avigdor in Yentl (1983), a role that brought a Golden Globe nomination. On television he was Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope from 1994 to 2000, winning a Primetime Emmy in 1995, and he later played Jason Gideon in Criminal Minds and Saul Berenson in Homeland.
73years old
Turns 74 on November 30in 48 days
- Born Chicago
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Mandel Bruce Patinkin and Mandy Bruce Patinkin
Movie Career
- Films
- 35
- Career span
- 44 years1979 to 2023
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A role that slipped away
Patinkin turned down a role in Disney's animated The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996, then played Quasimodo the next year in a TNT television film.
A role that slipped away
In 2017, Mandy Patinkin was announced to play Pierre Bezukhov in the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, but he left the role before ever performing it.
Early training
Patinkin studied at the Juilliard School in its Drama Division Group 5 from 1972 to 1976, where his classmates included Kelsey Grammer.
Beyond film
Patinkin's musical production Mamaloshen, which consists of songs performed entirely in Yiddish, first appeared in 1998. He has taken the show to Broadway and to venues across the United States, and its recording received a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis in Germany.
Mandy Patinkin movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Nine actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Julia Roberts's page
James Spader's page
Bernadette Peters's page
Joel Grey's page
Also two films together3 more actors
- Noah JupeThe Magician's Elephant (2023) and Wonder (2017)
- Charlie KorsmoThe Doctor (1991) and Dick Tracy (1990)
- Cherise BootheThe Magician's Elephant (2023) and Everyone's Hero (2006)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Mandy Patinkin's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$806 million
20 of the 35 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 35 films: 20 worldwide figure; 8 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 3 figure not found.
- 20Worldwide figure
- 8US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 95% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$315M39.1% of the total
- 2$197M24.5% of the total
- 3$104M12.9% of the total
- 4$38M4.7% of the total
- 5$32M4.0% of the total
- 6$31M3.8% of the total
- 7$30M3.8% of the total
- 8$17M2.1% of the total
$41.9 millionfrom the other 12 films with a worldwide figure, 5% of the total
Awards
Two awards and honors from 1995 to 2018, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmy Awards | |||
| 1995 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Chicago Hope | Won |
| Other honors | |||
| 2018 | Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame | Honored | |
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.