Mandy Patinkin

Sebagai seorang penampil Broadway yang mendapat pujian kritis, dia telah berkolaborasi dengan Stephen Sondheim dan Andrew Lloyd Webber. Peran utama Patinkin di panggung dan layar telah menerima banyak penghargaan termasuk sebuah Tony Award, sebuah Primetime Emmy Award dan juga tujuh nominasi Drama Desk Awards, tiga nominasi Golden Globe Awards, dan sebuah nominasi Screen Actors Guild Award.

Mandy Patinkin
Patinkin di 2008
Lahir	Mandel Bruce Patinkin 30 November 1952 (umur 71) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Pendidikan	Universitas Kansas Juilliard School
Pekerjaan	Aktor penyanyi
Tahun aktif	1974–sekarang
Suami/istri	Kathryn Grody ​ (m. 1980)​
Anak	2
Situs web	www.mandypatinkin.org

Patinkin made his theatre debut in 1975 starring opposite Meryl Streep in the revival of the comic play Trelawny of the "Wells" at The Public Theatre's Shakespeare Festival. He originated the role of Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (1979) earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as well as the roles of Georges Seurat/George in Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (1984) for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He portrayed Lord Archibald Craven in the original Broadway cast of Lucy Simon's The Secret Garden (1991). Two years later, he played Marvin in William Finn’s Falsettos replacing Michael Rupert.

Patinkin had leading roles in television shows, playing Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope (1994–2000), SSA Jason Gideon in the CBS crime-drama television series Criminal Minds (2005–2007), Saul Berenson in the Showtime drama series Homeland (2011–2020), and Rufus Cotesworth in the Hulu mystery series Death and Other Details (2024). For his work in television he has earned seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Leading Actor in a Drama Series for Chicago Hope in 1995. Patinkin has had recurring roles in Dead Like Me (2003–2004) and The Good Fight (2021).

Dia juga bermain di film memerankan Inigo Montoya pada film petualangan keluarga Rob Reiner berjudul The Princess Bride (1987) dan Avigdor di film epik musikal Barbra Streisand, Yentl (1983) yang kemudian mengantarnya mendapatkan sebuah nominasi Golden Globe Award untuk Aktor Terbaik dalam sebuah Film Musikal atau Komedi. Kredit film lainnya termasuk Ragtime (1981), Maxie (1985), Dick Tracy (1990), True Colors (1991), Impromptu (1991), Wonder (2017), dan Life Itself (2018). Patinkin juga mengisi suara di Hayao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky (2003), dan The Wind Rises (2013).

Patinkin lahir di Chicago, Illinois, pada 30 November 1952, dari pasangan Doris Lee "Doralee" (née Sinton) (1925-2014), seorang pembuat rumah, dan Lester Don Patinkin (1919-1972), yang mengoperasikan dua pabrik baja ukuran besar di Chicago, People's Iron & Metal Company dan Scrap Corporation of America. Ibunya menulis Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook. Sepupu Patinkin termasuk Mark Patinkin, seorang penulis buku dan kolumnis sindikasi nasional untuk The Providence Journal; Sheldon Patinkin dari jurusan Teater Columbia College Chicago, seorang pendiri dari The Second City; Bonnie Miller Rubin, seorang reporter Chicago Tribune reporter; Laura Patinkin, seorang aktris dari New York; dan Louis Rosen, seorang komposer asal New York, dan Stacy Oliver née Patinkin, seorang penulis dan penampil.

Patinkin tumbuh di keluarga kelas menengah-atas, keturunan dari imigran Yahudi (dari Rusia dan Polandia), dan tumbuh berkembang dalam ajaran Yahudi Konservatif, menghadiri sekolah agama setiap hari "dari usia tujuh hingga 13 atau 14" dan menyanyi di paduan suara sinagog, dan juga menghadiri Camp Sura di Michigan. Ayahnya meninggal karena kanker pankreas pada 1972.

Dia bersekolah di South Shore High School, Harvard St. George School, dan Kenwood High School (kemudian berganti nama menjadi Kenwood Academy, dimana gurunya termasuk Lena McLin), dan lulus pada 1970. Dia berkuliah di Universitas Kansas dan Juilliard School (Divisi Drama Group 5: 1972–1976). Di Juilliard, dia merupakan teman sekelas dari Kelsey Grammer. Ketika produser komedi situasi Cheers mengadakan audisi untuk peran Dr. Frasier Crane, Patinkin menulis nama Grammer untuk maju.

1975–1988: Breakthrough and stardom

 

After some television-commercial and radio appearances (including on CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974), Patinkin started his career on the New York stage in 1975, starring in Trelawny of the 'Wells' as Arthur Gower. Patinkin starred alongside Meryl Streep, who played Imogen Parrott, and John Lithgow, who played Ferdinand Gadd. Clive Barnes of The New York Times praised the production writing, "The production looks beautiful and, indeed, still charms". From 1975 through 1976, Patinkin played the Player King and Fortinbras, Prince of Norway in a Broadway revival of Hamlet, with Sam Waterston in the leading role. In 1977 he starred in the play The Shadow Box written by Michael Cristofer. He had his first film role as a Pool Man in the political comedy The Big Fix (1978) starring Richard Dreyfus, John Lithgow, and F. Murray Abraham. The following year he acted in the coming of age romantic comedy French Postcards and the neo-noir Last Embrace.

Patinkin had his first success in musical theater when he played Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, which starred Patti LuPone, on Broadway in 1979. Walter Kerr of The New York Times described his performance as "vigorous". James Lardner of The Washington Post wrote, "Patinkin gives a sympathetic, consistent and rather sweet performance". Patinkin won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance. He also received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Patinkin took film roles in Milos Forman's historical drama Ragtime (1980) playing Tateh and Sidney Lumet's drama Daniel (1983) portraying Paul Isaacson.

Patinkin won acclaim for his role as an Orthodox Jewish man Avigdor in Barbra Streisand's romantic drama epic Yentl (1983), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Richard Corliss of Time praised his performance but criticized Streisand's choice to not have him sing in the film. Corliss wrote, "For her male co-star she hired Mandy Patinkin, who has wrapped his crystalline Broadway tenor voice around Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, then gave him no songs to sing". Veron Scott of United Press International wrote, "When Patinkin is in a scene it is difficult to focus on anyone else, including Streisand who is at her very best in Yentl. He plays profound, passionate men of action." Patinkin noted that both Ragtime (1981) and Daniel (1983) weren't as successful as he had hoped commercially and critically saying, "When you care about the content of a film, you want people to see it". He stated he had a positive experience working with Streisand saying, "'She tried to overcome her superstardom to make me feel comfortable. She worked hard to get to know me for what I am." Patinkin also was able to explore his Jewish roots while making the film saying, "I also spent a couple of weeks in Ohr Semach in Jerusalem at a yeshiva, studying the Talmud and attending lectures. The experience awakened many thoughts and feelings that had been sleeping in me for some time."

Patinkin returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, in which he played the pointillist artist Georges Seurat and his fictional great-grandson George. He acted opposite Bernadette Peters and earned nominations for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote, "Seurat, here embodied commandingly by Mandy Patinkin, could well be a stand-in for Mr. Sondheim, who brings the same fierce, methodical intellectual precision to musical and verbal composition that the artist brought to his pictorial realm." His performance was captured on film and shown on television as a part of American Playhouse. The following year he took the role of Buddy Plummer in Follies: In Concert at Lincoln Center.

 

In 1985 Patinkin took a leading role in the romantic fantasy comedy Maxie opposite Glenn Close. Variety gave the film a mixed review but praised Patinkin, writing, "Much of the credit for keeping [Maxie] alive must go to Mandy Patinkin, who shows himself to be a good-looking leading man with a rare light touch for romantic comedy." In 1987, Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, looking to avenge his father's death. Patinkin acted opposite Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Andre the Giant, and Billy Crystal. Variety praised his performance writing, "Patinkin especially is a joy to watch and the film comes to life when his longhaired, scruffy cavalier is on screen." His character has earned a cult following and his memorable line "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die," was ranked as one of IGN's best movie moments. The following year in 1988 he acted in the science fiction action film Alien Nation directed by Graham Baker and the neo-noir film The House on Carroll Street directed by Peter Yates.

1989–2004: Established actor

Over the next decade, he continued to appear in movies, including Warren Beatty's action crime comedy Dick Tracy (1990) and Herbert Ross's political comedy True Colors (1991). He also portrayed Alfred de Musset in James Lapine's period drama Impromptu (1991) starring Hugh Grant, Judy Davis, Emma Thompson, and reunited with Bernadette Peters. Dessen Howe of The Washington Post described his performance writing "he makes an effective comic catalyst".

On Broadway, Patinkin appeared in the musical The Secret Garden in 1991 and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also released two solo albums, titled Mandy Patinkin (1989) and Dress Casual (1990). In 1994, Patinkin took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. However, despite the award and the ratings success of the show, Patinkin left the show during the second season because he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife and children. He returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was canceled in 2000. Since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has appeared in a number of films. However, he has mostly performed as a singer, releasing three more albums. That same year Patinkin returned to theatre this time Broadway musical The Wild Party (2000) portraying Burrs acting opposite Toni Collette as Queenie. The vaudeville like production is based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem of the same name. For his performance he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

During this time he guest-starred in The Simpsons in the episode "Lisa's Wedding" (1995) as Hugh Parkfield, Lisa's future English groom and in The Larry Sanders Show (1996) for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He also acted in numerous films such as the drama The Doctor (1991), The Music of Chance (1993), the comedy Life with Mikey (1993), the action adventure Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994), and the romantic mystery Lulu on the Bridge (1998). After turning down the role in the Walt Disney Animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), he portrayed Quasimodo in the TNT television film The Hunchback (1997) acting opposite Salma Hayek, and Richard Harris. John O'Connor from The New York Times praised his performance writing, "[Patinkin] is surprisingly restrained...His Quasimodo is a gentle and quite moving creature, shyly hiding his facial disfigurations in the shadows". Connor praised the production writing that its "oddly old-fashioned, paying a kind of homage, as does Mr. Patinkin's performance, to the Laughton film."

Mamaloshen, Patinkin's musical production of songs sung entirely in Yiddish, premiered in 1998. He has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the United States. The recorded version won a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis award in Germany. In 1999, Patinkin co-starred in the second Sesame Street film, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, as Huxley, an abusive, childish, sadistic, and greedy man with abnormally large eyebrows, who steals whatever he can grab and then claims it as his own.

Patinkin returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. In 2003 he dubbed a voice in the Walt Disney re-release of Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky. From 2003 to 2004, he appeared in the Showtime comedy drama Dead Like Me as Rube Sofer. In 2004, he played a six-week engagement of his one-man concert at the Off-Broadway complex Dodger Stages.

2005–2020: Criminal Minds dan Homeland

 

Pada September 2005, dia melakukan debut peran Jason Gideon, seorang pemprofil berpengalaman, saat baru saja kembali bekerja setelah serangkaian serangan kecemasan, pada serial televisi drama-kriminal CBS, berjudul Criminal Minds. Patinkin absen saat pembacaan naskah untuk Criminal Minds dan tidak kembali pada musim ketiga. Kepergiannya dari acara bukan karena masalah kontrak atau gaji, tapi karena perbedaan kreatif. Dia meninggalkan surat permohonan maaf untuk sesama tim pemeran yang menjelaskan alasan kepergiannya dan mendoakan yang terbaik. Beberapa minggu sebelum kepergiannya, dalam sebuah wawancara yang direkam oleh majalah daring Monaco Revue, Patinkin mengatakan kepada jurnalis di Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo, bahwa dia membenci kekerasan di televisi dan tidak nyaman dengan beberapa adegan di Criminal Minds. Dia kemudian menyebutkan pilihannya untuk melakukan Criminal Minds adalah "kesalahan publik terbesarnya" dan menyatakan dia "mengira itu adalah hal yang sangat berbeda. Aku tidak pernah mengira bahwa mereka akan membunuh dan memperkosa semua wanita setiap malam, setiap hari, minggu demi minggu, tahun demi tahun. Ini sangat menghancurkan jiwaku dan kepribadianku. Setelah itu, aku tidak berpikir akan mendapat pekerjaan di televisi lagi."

Patinkin berbicara untuk melakukan rencana tur dunia dengan sebuah musikal dan ingin menyuntik lebih banyak komedi ke bisnis hiburan. Di beberapa episode kemudian dari Criminal Minds, selama musim 2007–08, Jason Gideon dikeluarkan dari serial dan digantikan oleh Special Agent David Rossi (diperankan oleh Joe Mantegna). Gideon kemudian diketahui terbunuh, dan menghentikan segala kemungkinan penampilan tamu oleh Patinkin pada acara ini. Pada 2008 Patinkin memerankan Prospero di sebuah produksi musikal off-Broadway dari The Tempest bermain bersama Waterston dan Michael Potts. Marilyn Stasio dari Variety menulis, "Patinkin memiliki sebuah suara yang indah, yang hangat dan keemasan seperti saat madu diciduk dari toples -- suara yang sempurna untuk bernyanyi sepanjang "The Tempest," teatrikal Shakespeare paling musikal." Pada 14 Oktober 2009, diumumkan bahwa Patinkin akan menjadi bintang tamu pada sebuah episode dari Three Rivers, yang tayang pada 15 November 2009. Dia memerankan seorang pasien dengan gejala Lou Gehrig's disease yang terluka pada sebuah kecelakaan mobil yang meminta dokter yang merawatnya di Three Rivers Hospital untuk mencabut alat bantu hidupnya sehingga organ tubuhnya bisa didonasikan. Dia mengambil gambar penampilannya di The Whole Truth yang direncanakan tayang pada 15 Desember 2010, namun ABC menarik serial itu dari jadwal hanya dua minggu sebelum tayang. Di tahun yang sama dia berakting di drama kriminal Inggris 4.3.2.1. (2010) berakting bersama Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, dan Helen McCrory.

 

Dia membintangi teater musikal Paradise Found, disutradarai bersama oleh Harold Prince dan Susan Stroman, di Menier Chocolate Factory di London. Musikal ini memainkan sebuah pertunjukkan terbatas dari Mei hingga Juni, 2010. Patinkin dan Patti LuPone menampilkan konser mereka An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin di Broadway untuk pertunjukkan terbatas sebanyak 63-penampilan yang dimulai pada 21 November 2011, di Ethel Barrymore Theatre, dan berakhir pada 13 Januari 2012. Konser ini menandai keduanya bermain bersama di Broadway sejak tampil di Evita.

He costarred with Claire Danes on the Showtime series Homeland, which aired from 2011 until 2020. He portrays counterterrorism operative Saul Berenson, protagonist Carrie Mathison's (Danes) mentor. For his performance, Patinkin has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, among other honors. Explaining what he learned from the character, he stated, "The line between good and evil runs through each one of us."

Patinkin was announced as playing the role of Pierre in the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 starting August 15, 2017. He was to have a limited run through September 3, replacing former Hamilton star Okieriete Onaodowan, but Patinkin dropped out of the role before performing. In 2018, Patinkin returned to recorded music with the album Diary: January 27, 2018 which was produced by pianist Thomas Bartlett. He voiced Papa Smurf in the live-action comedy film Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) opposite Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, and Julia Roberts. During this time he also took roles in the animated film The Wind Rises (2013), the comedy-drama Wish I Was Here (2014), the family film Wonder (2017), the drama Life Itself (2018), and the comedy Before You Know It (2019).

2021–sekarang

Pada 2021 dia menjadi bagian dari peran utama dari serial drama hukum The Good Fight di CBS. Setahun berikutnya dia mengisi suara Benjamin Franklin di serial dokumenter Ken Burns berjudul Benjamin Franklin di PBS. Paul Giamatti mengisi suara John Adams dan Liam Neeson mengisi suara Alexander Wedderburn. Pada 2022, Patinkin menjadi narator untuk miniseri Indivisible: Healing Hate, sebuah acara Paramount+ yang mendokumentasikan berbagai peristiwa sebelum serangan Capitol 6 Januari.

Pernikahan dan keluarga

Patinkin menikahi aktris dan penulis Kathryn Grody pada 15 April 1980. Mereka memiliki dua anak laki-laki, Isaac dan Gideon. Gideon bergabung dengan ayahnya diatas panggung pada Dress Casual di 2011.

Kesehatan

Patinkin menderita keratoconus, sebuah kondisi progresif mata, pada pertengahan 1990-an. Ini mengantarnya melakukan dua transplantasi kornea, kornea kanannya pada 1997 dan yang kiri di 1998. Dia juga didiagnosis dan dirawat untuk kanker prostat pada 2004. Dia merayakan tahun pertama kesembuhannya pada 2005 dengan berkendara dengan sepeda untuk amal bersama anaknya Isaac sejauh 265-mil (426 km) – the Arava Institute Hazon Israel Ride: Cycling for Peace, Partnership & Environmental Protection.

Agama dan aktivis

Patinkin mendeskripsikan dirinya sebagai seorang dengan kepercayaan "Yahudi dengan tambahan Buddha". Pada program radio KanadaQ, Patinkin memanggil dirinya sebagai seorang "Yahudi Buddha" karena percampuran dari keyakinannya and "spiritual but not religious". Patinkin telah terlibat di berbagai kegiatan Yahudi dan aktivitas kebudayaan. Dia menyanyi dalam Yiddish, seringkali dalam konser, dan pada albumnya Mamaloshen. Dia juga menulis pembukaan untuk dua buku mengenai kebudayaan Yahudi, The Jewish American Family Album, oleh Dorothy dan Thomas Hoobler, dan Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations, oleh ibunya, Doralee Patinkin Rubin. Pada Mei 2012, Patinkin memberikan upacara pembukaan pada Konvensi Tahunan dari Israel Kiri, dimana dia menceritakan pengalamannya selama berkunjung ke Tepi Barat dengan anggota dari organisasi Breaking the Silence.

Pada 21 Desember 2015, pada Charlie Rose di PBS, Patinkin berbicara mengenai perjalannya baru-baru ini ke Yunani untuk membantu pengunsi yang berasal dari Syria dan peran aktingnya pada serial televisi Homeland. Dia menyatakan bahwa dia ingin membantu "menciptakan kesempatan dan sistem yang lebih baik untuk kehidupan dan keberadaan, untuk memberi kebebasan, keadilan dan harga diri, kualitas kehidupan untuk kemanusiaan di seluruh dunia."

Patinkin berkontribusi untuk buku anak-anak Dewey Doo-it Membantu Owlie Terbang Kembali: Sebuah Buku Cerita Musikal, diinspirasi oleh Christopher Reeve. Buku yang mendapatkan penghargaan, diterbitkan pada 2005, mendapatkan manfaat dari Yayasan Christopher Reeve dan termasuk sebuah CD audio dengan Patinkin bernyanyi dan membaca cerita dan juga Dana Reeve dan Bernadette Peters menyanyi.

Ketertarikan

Pada 2020, anak dari Patinkin dan Grody, Gideon, mulai memfilmkan dan memfotokan keseharian kehidupan mereka, mengunggah foto dan klip ke beberapa media sosial. Keduanya kemudian mulai menerima banyak pengikut signifikan di media sosial. Kemudian di Later that year, Grody and Patinkin partnered with Swing Left, creating viral videos with their sons to encourage people to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election. Patinkin also stumped for Biden in an ad for the Jewish Democratic Council of America encouraging Jews to vote for Biden. The ad featured Patinkin channeling his Princess Bride character to encourage people to vote. Patinkin is a model railroader.

Film

Televisi

Penghargaan teater

Penghargaan film dan televisi

• Pada 12 Februari 2018, Patinkin menerika sebuah bintang di Hollywood Walk of Fame pada 6243 Hollywood Blvd untuk karyanya di televisi.