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Oliver Platt
Birth name	Oliver James Platt
Born	January 12, 1960 (1960-01-12) (age 47) Windsor, Ontario, CAN

Oliver James Platt (born January 12, 1960) is an American film and television actor.

Biography

Personal life

Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to American parents Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad,[1] and Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as US ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines.[2] His paternal grandfather was architect Geoffrey Platt, and he is also related to Diana, Princess of Wales, through their shared descent from the American heiress Frances Work. He has two brothers, Adam and Nicholas, Jr. Platt grew up in the United States, moving to Washington, D.C. shortly after his birth. He graduated from Tufts University. In 1992, he married Camilla Campbell, and they have three children, Lily, George, and Claire.

Career

From 2004 to 2006, Platt starred as lawyer Russell Tupper in Huff, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He also played Oliver Babish, White House Counsel, on the TV show The West Wing.

He also performed the voice of Luther in EA Game's second installment of the SSX snowboarding games and appears as himself in the DVD content.

He worked with Hank Azaria on the TV show Huff.

Played the part of Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner in the ESPN mini-series "The Bronx is Burning"

Filmography

• Working Girl (1988)
• Flatliners (1990)
• Beethoven (1992)
• Diggstown (1992)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)
• The Three Musketeers (1993)
• Benny & Joon (1993)
• Funny Bones (1995)
• The Infiltrator (1995)
• Executive Decision (1996)
• A Time to Kill (1996)
• Bulworth (1998)
• Dangerous Beauty (1998)
• The Impostors (1998)
• Dr. Dolittle (1998)
• Simon Birch (1998)
• Lake Placid (1999)
• Three to Tango (1999)
• Bicentennial Man (1999)
• Ready to Rumble (2000)
• Gun Shy (2000)
• The West Wing (2001, 2005)
• Liberty Stands Still (2002)
• Pieces of April (2003)
• Hope Springs (2003)
• Kinsey (2004)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Casanova (2005)
• The Ten (2007)
• The Bronx is Burning (2007)
• Huff (2006-2007)

References

External links

• Oliver Platt at the Internet Movie Database
• Oliver Platt at the Internet Broadway Database
• Oliver Platt at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Food Bank For New York City public service announcement