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Biography

Oliver Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. His place of birth is often reported as Washington because that is where his parents resided…more

Born

1/12/1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Birth Name

Oliver James Platt

Gender

Male

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Role
- The Big C
  Paul Jamison
  - S 3: Ep 10 Fly Away
    6/17/12
  - S 3: Ep 9 Vaya Con Dios
    6/10/12
  - S 3: Ep 8 Killjoy
    6/3/12
  - S 3: Ep 7 How Bazaar
    5/20/12
  - S 3: Ep 6 Life Rights
    5/13/12
  - + 27 More Credits
- The Big C
  Paul
  - S 1: Ep 10 Divine Intervention
    10/25/10
  - S 1: Ep 8 Happy Birthday, Cancer
    10/11/10
  - S 1: Ep 7 Two for the Road
    10/4/10
- The Thick of It (US)
  Malcolm Tucker
- The Bronx Is Burning
  George Steinbrenner
- Huff
  Russell Tupper
  - S 2: Ep 13 Which Lip Is the Cervical Lip?
    6/25/06
  - S 2: Ep 12 Black Shadows
    6/18/06
  - S 2: Ep 11 Tapping the Squid
    6/11/06
  - S 2: Ep 10 Bethless
    6/4/06
  - S 2: Ep 9 Radio Silence
    5/21/06
  - + 21 More Credits
- Queens Supreme
  Judge Jack Moran
  - S 1: Ep 3 Flawed Heroes
    1/24/03
  - S 1: Ep 2 Pilot
    1/17/03
  - S 1: Ep 1 One Angry Man
    1/10/03
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Eyes Have It
  - S 1: Ep 12 That Voodoo That You Do
  - + 8 More Credits
- Deadline
  Wallace Benton
  - S 1: Ep 13 Red Herring
    4/7/01
  - S 1: Ep 12 Shock
    4/7/01
  - S 1: Ep 11 Just Lie Back
    3/31/01
  - S 1: Ep 10 The First Commandment
    3/31/01
  - S 1: Ep 9 Somebody's Fool
    3/24/01
  - + 8 More Credits
Recurring Role (2)

Role
- Bored to Death
  Richard Antrem
  - S 3: Ep 5 I Keep Taking Baths Like Lady Macbeth
    11/7/11
- The West Wing
  Oliver Babish
  - S 7: Ep 5 Here Today
    10/23/05
  - S 7: Ep 1 The Ticket
    9/25/05
  - S 3: Ep 6 Gone Quiet
    11/14/01
  - S 3: Ep 3 Ways and Means
    10/24/01
  - S 3: Ep 1 Manchester: Part 1
    10/10/01
  - + 3 More Credits
Guest Star (20)

Role
- Bored to Death
  Richard Antrem
  - S 2: Ep 2 Make It Quick, Fitzgerald!
    10/3/10
  - S 1: Ep 8 Take a Dive
    11/8/09
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Case of the Stolen Sperm
    11/1/09
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Case of the Missing Screenplay
    10/4/09
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
  Guest
  - S 1: Ep 241 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 05/06/2010
    5/6/10
- US Open
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 12 Day 10
    9/9/09
- The Primetime Emmy Awards
  Himself
  - S 58: Ep 1 The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
    8/27/06
- At The Movies
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 1 15th February, 2006
    2/15/06
- Tavis Smiley
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 13 Adriana Bosch, Oliver Platt
    1/25/05
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 85 Michael Keaton/Oliver Platt/John Legend
    1/14/05
- Dennis Miller
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 5 January 11, 2005
    1/11/05
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 2 Oliver Platt, Elizabeth Rohm, & Michael McDonald
    1/11/05
- NOVA
  Narrator
  - S 31: Ep 16 World in the Balance: The People Paradox (1)
    4/20/04
- Dinner For Five
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 11 Sean Hayes, Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt
    10/13/03
- American Masters
  Narrator
  - S 18: Ep 1 Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist
    9/3/03
- Between the Lions
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 1 Hay Day
    9/16/02
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 15 Show #827
    9/25/00
  - S 4: Ep 93 Show #717
    2/2/00
- MTV Movie Awards
  Himself
  - S 9: Ep 1 2000 MTV Movie Awards
    6/3/00
- Late Show with David Letterman
  Guest
  - S 7: Ep 117 Show #1379
    4/3/00
  - S 6: Ep 186 Show #1251
    7/7/99
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 11 Oliver Platt, Jason Biggs, and Greg Geraldo
    7/19/99
- Miami Vice
  Speed Stiles
  - S 4: Ep 14 Baseballs of Death
    2/19/88
- The Equalizer
  Norm
  - S 3: Ep 4 In the Money
    10/7/87
- Wiseguy
  Guest Star
  - S 4: Ep 9 Changing Houses
Special Guest Star (1)

Role
- Nip/Tuck
  Freddy Prune
  - S 5: Ep 10 Magda & Jeff
    1/22/08
  - S 5: Ep 9 Rachel Ben Natan
    1/15/08
  - S 5: Ep 4 Dawn Budge II
    11/20/07
  - S 5: Ep 1 Carly Summers
    10/30/07

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The Big C's Season 2 Finale: Life, Sadly, Isn't Fair

By Louis Peitzman, Sep 27, 2011

It was clear something was going to go terribly wrong in the season finale. But the last-minute reveal, the slow realization—it cut deep. read more
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The Big C Provides Laughs In Unexpected Places

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- In 2008, he was considered for the Light on the Hill Award by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, to honor him as a distinguished alumni of Tufts University. The Senates's president Neil DiBiase stated that they would prefer to wait for a better opportunity since Oliver Platt wasn't able to come to the campus in that semester.
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- In an interview in 1998, he stated that his family doesn't accompany him to the sets. He explained to have an open plane ticket while filming in order to visit them frequently.
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- He is distantly related to Orson Welles and is a second cousin, once removed, of Lady Diana Frances Spencer, the late Princess of Wales.
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- Oliver Platt: (on seeing footage of himself) I'm not a big dailies guy. I don't like to be reminded about myself. Especially when I'm kind of a pretty extreme character. (...) And sometimes I find myself, sprinting away from the monitor because no one warned me, because just for me, I don't want to see that kind of stuff.
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- Oliver Platt: (interview in 1999) I've got a wife and three kids, so film is just the most viable thing for me right now. I still love the theater, but the commitment in time and energy to do live theater is so great, and, frankly, the financial rewards are just not as attractive. When you have a family, you have to think about those things.
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- Oliver Platt: (on the Writers' Strike 2008) What we're looking at is the writers who create this stuff are not getting compensated for it. I wish I could hand all of my iTunes content back because I've now been educated to the fact that the people who write it don't get anything - which is ridiculous!
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