Tony Goldwyn

Anthony Howard Tony Goldwyn born May 20 1960 is an American actor singer producer director and political activist Hes known for his roles as Carl Bruner in Ghost President Fitzgerald Grant on ABCs 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 legalpolitical drama Scandal 20122018 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 halfsister Liz Goldwyn is a filmmaker His niece is writerproducer Emily Goldwyn Johns 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 Most info from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia