Peter Friedman

Born in New York City, Peter Friedman is an American actor whose work spans Broadway, film, and television. He graduated from Hofstra University and made his Broadway debut in 1972 in The Great God Brown. His many Broadway appearances include The Rules of the Game, Piaf, The Heidi Chronicles, and Twelve Angry Men. He earned a Tony Award nomination for playing Tateh in Ragtime. On screen, he became known for roles in Safe (1995), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), Paycheck (2003), The Savages (2007), and Synecdoche, New York (2008). He gained wider prominence as Frank Vernon in the HBO series Succession from 2018 to 2023 and won Screen Actors Guild Awards with the cast in 2022 and 2023. Other television credits include The Affair, The Path, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He has also appeared in films such as Single White Female (1992), Blink (1994), Freedomland (2006), and She Said (2022).