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Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a renowned tenor.

Biography

Early life

Patinkin was born in Chicago, Illinois of Jewish heritage. He is a cousin of Mark Patinkin, author and nationally-syndicated columnist for the Providence Journal, and Jason "Dink" Patinkin, President of Columbia University's EarthCo. Patinkin attended South Shore High School, Kenwood Academy, University of Kansas and Juilliard School of Drama.

Career

His first real break came when he landed the part of Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979. Patinkin went on to win a Tony Award for the role. After this initial musical theater success he moved to film, playing a number of parts in movies such as Yentl and Ragtime, before returning to Broadway in 1984 to star in Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination. He is also well-known for playing Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride.

Over the next decade he continued to appear in various movies such as Dick Tracy and Alien Nation, on Broadway in The Secret Garden and released two solo albums called Mandy Patinkin and Dress Casual. In 1994, he burst onto the small screen playing the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope and promptly won an Emmy Award. However despite the award and the ratings success of the show Patinkin left the show part way through the second season.

Since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has taken parts in a number of films. However, he has mostly been performing as a singer, releasing three more albums. He returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival's The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination. Recently he has also been seen in the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me as Rube Sofer.

In September 2005, he started his role as Jason Gideon, an experienced profiler just coming back to work after a series of nervous breakdowns, the result of his partner's death in the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

Personal life

Patinkin married actress Kathryn Grody in 1980; they have two sons, Isaac and Gideon. He suffered from keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease, in the mid-1990s. This led to two corneal transplants, the right cornea in 1997 and the left in 1998.

He also was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in 2004. He celebrated his first year of recovery by doing a 280-mile charity bike ride with his son, Isaac — the Arava Institute Hazon Israel Ride: Cycling for Peace, Partnership & Environmental Protection. He subsequently joined the boards of both the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and Hazon.

Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities. He sings in Yiddish, which he has often sung in concert, as featured in his album "Mamaloshen". He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album, by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, and Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations by his mother, Doralee Patinkin Rubin.

Filmography

Film

• The Big Fix (1978) — Pool Man (film debut)
• French Postcards (1979) — Sayyid
• Ragtime (1981) — Tateh
• Yentl (1983) — Avigdor
• Daniel (1983) — Paul Isaacson
• Maxie (1985) — Nick
• The Princess Bride (1987) — Íñigo Montoya
• Alien Nation (1988) — Detective Samuel Francisco
• The House on Carroll Street (1988) — Ray Salwen
• Dick Tracy (1990) — 88 Keys
• True Colors (1991) — John Palmeri
• Impromptu (1991) — Alfred De Musset
• The Doctor (1991) — Dr. Murray Kaplan
• The Music of Chance (1993) — Jim Nashe
• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) — Brother Daniel
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) — Huxley
• Piñero (2001) — Joseph Papp
• Run Ronnie Run (2002) — as himself portraying Ronnie Dobbs in an in-movie stage performance

Television

• Chicago Hope — Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Emmy Award, 1995)
• Criminal Minds — Jason Gideon
• Dead Like Me — Rube John Sofer
• Law and Order — Jewelry store customer in "Absentia" (Season thirteen, episode 290)
• The Simpsons — Hugh Parkfield in "Lisa's Wedding" (Season six, episode 619)
• Touched By An Angel — Satan (single-episode guest star) 7th season — episode 23, "Netherlands"

Television commercials

• 7 Up (1970)
• Frosted Mini-Wheats (1971) (the first Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats commercial.)
• Procrit approx. 2001
• Crestor (2005)

Stage

• Trelawny of the Wells (1975) — Mr. Arthur Gower
• Hamlet (1975-1976) — Fortinbras, Player King
• The Shadow Box (1977) — Mark
• Evita (1979) — Che (Tony Award, 1980)
• Sunday in the Park with George (1984) — George (Tony Award Nominee, 1984)
• Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual (1989)
• The Secret Garden (1991) — Archibald Craven
• Falsettos (1993) — Marvin (Replacement)
• Sunday in the Park with George (Tenth Anniversary Concert) (1994) — George
• Mandy Patinkin in Concert (1997)
• Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Mamaloshen (1998)
• The Wild Party (2000) — Burrs (Tony Award Nominee, 2000)

Discography

• Evita (1978)
• Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
• Mandy Patinkin (1989)
• Dress Casual (1990)
• The Secret Garden (1991)
• Experiment (1994)
• Oscar & Steve (1995)
• Mamaloshen (1998)
• The Wild Party (2000)
• Kidults (2001)
• Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim (2002)

Patinkin can also be heard in Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns, the Placido Domingo-starring studio cast recording of Man of La Mancha (1996), the Leonard Bernstein compilation Leonard Bernstein's New York (1996), Madonna's album I'm Breathless (1990), the studio cast recording of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific (1986), and the concert version of Sondheim´s Follies in Follies in Concert (1985).

External links

• Mandy Patinkin Bio at CBS — Criminal Minds
• The Princess Bride...On A Bike! In 2005 he reprised his most famous role and line for charity at a New York bike ride.
• The Mandy Patinkin Official website.
• Official website for "Criminal Minds" on CBS Television.

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