Oliver Platt

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Oliver Platt
Birth name	Oliver James Platt
Born	January 12 1960 (1960-01-12) (age 48) Windsor, Ontario, CAN

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

Biography

Early life and Marriage

Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to Sheila Maynard and Nicholas Platt, an American diplomat.^[1] He has two brothers; Adam Platt and Nicholas Platt Jr.^[2] He is married to Camilla Campbell, with whom he has three children; Lily (b. 1995), George (b. 1997), and Claire (b. 1999).^[3]

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. To family-film audiences, he is primarily known as "Porthos the Pirate" in Disney's The Three Musketeers, and as cyberneticist Rupert Burns in Chris Columbus' 1999 drama Bicentennial Man, starring opposite Robin Williams. He performed the voice of Luther in EA Game's second installment of the SSX snowboarding games and appears as himself in the DVD content. Platt 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)
• (1995)
• 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)
• Huff (2004-2006)
• Kinsey (2004)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Casanova (2005)
• The Ten (2007)
• The Bronx is Burning (2007)
• Nip/Tuck (2007)

Famous Relatives

• Oliver is a second cousin, once removed, to the late Diana, Princess of Wales , as he is a great great-grandchild of Frances Work, the New York heiress, who is Diana's great-grandmother.^[4] This also makes him Prince William's third cousin.^[5]

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