Tony Goldwyn

Known for ActingBorn 1960-05-20 (age 66)Los Angeles, California, USA

Anthony Howard 'Tony' Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He's known for his roles as Carl Bruner in Ghost, President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC's drama Scandal, district attorney Nicholas Baxter on Law & Order, Gordon Gray in Oppenheimer, Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), Andrew Prior in Divergent and Insurgent, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, Michael Drucker in The 6th Day, Dr. William 'Will' Rudolph in Kiss the Girls, Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Harold Nixon in Nixon (1995), Fletcher Cole in The Pelican Brief, and the voice of Tarzan in the Disney animated Tarzan. He made his acting debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film Ghost (1990), which earned him a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star as Harold Nixon in the biographical film Nixon (1995), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and as Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998). He portrayed Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), which earned him a second nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the ABC legal/political drama Scandal (2012–2018) and directed a number of episodes for the series, for which he won a Peabody Award. He is the son of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and actress Jennifer Howard. His paternal grandparents were film producer and movie studio mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. His brother John Goldwyn is a film producer, a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of the series Dexter. His brother Peter is also a film producer and the current President of Samuel Goldwyn Films. His half-sister Liz Goldwyn is a filmmaker. His niece is writer/producer Emily Goldwyn (John's daughter - and her mother is actress Colleen Camp). He has been married to production designer Jane Musky since 1987 and they have two daughters: Anna, a screenwriter, and Tess, an actress.Read more

Movies & web series

A Woman of Independent Means

Iran: Days of Crisis

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

Dexter

Oppenheimer

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Grey's Anatomy

From the Earth to the Moon

Justified

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Dark Holiday

Tales from the Crypt

Drop Dead Diva

King Richard

The L Word

The Good Wife

One Battle After Another

The Last Samurai

Frasier

Hacks

Private Practice

Truman

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Damages

Tarzan

The Emmy Awards

Lovecraft Country

Scandal

The Hot Zone

Without a Trace

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Kidnapped

Law & Order

Conviction

Ezra

Ghost

Plane

Divergent

Matlock

L.A. Law

Hunter

The Last Mile

Who Do You Think You Are?

Nixon

Chambers

Designing Women

The Divide

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth