Nick Sandow

Known for ActingBorn 1966-08-03 (age 59)The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Nick Sandow (born August 3, 1966) is an American character actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Joe Caputo in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019). Of Italian descent, Sandow grew up in the Italian neighborhood of Van Nest in the Bronx.He moved to Manhattan around age 19 to study acting under William Esper Studio in the Two-Year Professional Actor Training Program and work in theater. Sandow made his debut appearing in an episode of television series Law & Order in 1992 and worked as a bartender while taking small acting jobs in New York City. He appeared in a number of films, such as Grind (1997), A Brooklyn State of Mind (1998), Return to Paradise (1998) and On the Run (1999). Sandow performed in the 1999 off-Broadway production of Halfway Home. He played mobster Henry Hill in the 2001 made-for-television crime drama film, The Big Heist. Sandow guest-starred on New York Undercover, Third Watch, NYPD Blue, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, How to Make It in America and Blue Bloods. He began his directing career in theater on Off-Off-Broadway directing Dark Yellow, Chicken and From Riverdale to Riverhead. In 2011 he directed the immigrant drama film, Ponies based on play with the same name. In 2013, Sandow was cast in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black, as prison administrator Joe Caputo, was originally supposed to have been for a handful of episodes for the show's first season. Instead, his role was expanded during the second season, and Sandow was made a series regular with the start of the third season. He received three Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with the cast. In 2015 he wrote, directed and acted in The Wannabe. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and later got a wider release. In 2017 he received News and Documentary Emmy Awards nomination for producing the documentary series, Time: The Kalief Browder Story. In 2021 he was regular cast member in the short-lived CBS crime drama series, Clarice.Read more

Movies & web series

FBI

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Third Watch

Teenage Bounty Hunters

Blue Bloods

Orange Is the New Black

CSI: Miami

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Due South

Unforgettable

Time: The Kalief Browder Story

New Amsterdam

Law & Order

Nurse Jackie

Clarice

Patti Cake$

Stella's Last Weekend

The Lovebirds

The Day the Ponies Come Back

Return to Paradise

Resurrecting the Champ

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

Seven and a Match

No Exit

Meadowland

Living Out Loud

Connie and Carla

Mercy

Six Degrees

On the Run

The Sitter

The Accidental Husband

The Cold Lands

Spinning Gold

One Night Stand

No Looking Back

Arresting Gena

Dust

Frame Of Mind

Cabaret Maxime

Uninvited

The Unheard

The Big Heist

Swimfan

The Wannabe

Grind

Hand Gun

New Port South