Oliver Platt
Biography
Oliver Platt is an American actor whose career has spanned film, television and the stage, and he has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony. Born in Windsor, he spent much of his childhood in Asia and Washington, D.C. He made his film debut in Married to the Mob (1988) and gained prominence with Working Girl (1988), Flatliners (1990) and Beethoven (1992), followed by Indecent Proposal, Benny & Joon and The Three Musketeers (1993). His later films include A Time to Kill (1996), Lake Placid, Three to Tango and Bicentennial Man (1999), Pieces of April (2003), Kinsey (2004), Casanova (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), 2012 (2009) and X-Men: First Class (2011). On television he earned Emmy nominations for The West Wing, Huff and Nip/Tuck and plays Dr. Daniel Charles on Chicago Med, while his Broadway debut came in Shining City (2006).
66years old
Turns 67 on January 12in 86 days
- Born Windsor
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Oliver James Platt
Movie Career
- Films
- 57
- Career span
- 36 years1988 to 2024
Genres
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Big break
Platt credits his breakthrough to performing at the Punch Line Theater, where he was working when he obtained his agent.
A first
Platt's first lead role on television came in Deadline, the short-lived Dick Wolf drama where he played Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Wallace Benton.
First role
Platt made his Broadway debut in 2006 in Shining City, playing John, the tortured protagonist. The play was set in Dublin.
Behind the camera
Platt and Stanley Tucci created the characters for The Impostors while they were involved in a play at Yale University in 1988. Tucci went on to finish the screenplay and direct the film.
Early training
Platt toured schools with Shakespeare and Company, which is based in Lenox, Massachusetts. He did this to get his Equity card, and then he moved to New York.
Oliver Platt movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Joel Schumacher directed two of these films, Harold Ramis two and Mike Nichols two. Kevin Bacon appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Kevin Bacon's page
John Leguizamo's page
John Cusack's page
Kiefer Sutherland's page
Billy Bob Thornton's page
Joan Cusack's page
All films by Joel Schumacher
All films by Harold Ramis
Mike NicholsDirector, 2 films, 1988 to 1990
All films by Mike Nichols
Also three films together4 more actors
- Richard SchiffMartian Child (2007), Gun Shy (2000) and Doctor Dolittle (1998)
- Sandra BullockLoverboy (2005), Gun Shy (2000) and A Time to Kill (1996)
- Amanda PeetPlease Give (2010), 2012 (2009) and Martian Child (2007)
- Rebecca HallProfessor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), Please Give (2010) and Frost/Nixon (2008)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Oliver Platt's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$3.1 billion
41 of the 57 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 57 films: 41 worldwide figure; 8 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 6 figure not found.
- 41Worldwide figure
- 8US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 6Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 72% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$791M25.3% of the total
- 2$354M11.3% of the total
- 3$295M9.4% of the total
- 4$267M8.5% of the total
- 5$152M4.9% of the total
- 6$147M4.7% of the total
- 7$122M3.9% of the total
- 8$112M3.6% of the total
$882 millionfrom the other 33 films with a worldwide figure, 28% of the total