Rob Morrow
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Robert Alan "Rob" Morrow (born September 21, 1962) is an American
actor. He is known for his portrayal of Don Eppes
on Numb3rs
and as Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure
, a role which garnered him three Golden Globes and two Emmy Award nominations for "Best Actor in a Dramatic Series."
, of Jewish ancestry, the son of Diane Francis (née
Markowitz), a dental hygienist
, and Murray Morrow, an industrial
lighting
manufacturer. His parents divorce
d when he was nine. He grew up in Miami, Florida
, and attended Miami Sunset Senior High School, but dropped out at the beginning of his senior year to begin his acting career. He married actress Debbon Ayer in October 1998, and together they have a daughter named Tu Simone Ayer Morrow.
from 1990-1995. Afterward, he starred in the critically acclaimed film, Quiz Show
, as Dick Goodwin
, a Congressional investigator intent on uncovering the corruption behind the 1950s game show scandal, and played Albert Brooks
' sports agent brother in Mother
. At one point, he was slated to play the protagonist in the 1996 film version of The Island of Dr. Moreau
, but he dropped out of the project and was replaced by David Thewlis
. In 2000, he directed and starred in Maze
, about an artist with Tourette syndrome
.
In 2002, he played Kevin Hunter on the Showtime television series Street Time. He also appeared in the TV movie
Custody
. In 2007, he played Jack Nicholson
's doctor, Dr. Hollins, in The Bucket List
. From 2005 to 2010, he starred with David Krumholtz
and Judd Hirsch
in Numb3rs
on CBS
. On March 8, 2010 it was announced that Morrow has signed on to star in Jerry Bruckheimer
's new series The Whole Truth
on ABC
. The series aired on September 13, 2010 but was pulled from the ABC schedule in December. Morrow filmed 13 episodes.
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actor. He is known for his portrayal of Don Eppes
Don Eppes
Don Eppes is the main fictional character in the television show Numb3rs. He is played by Rob Morrow.Don is an FBI Special Agent who runs the FBI Violent Crimes Squad in Los Angeles. Don recruits his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes, to help him and the Bureau solve some of their most...
on Numb3rs
NUMB3RS
Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
and as Dr. Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.-Overview:The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a...
, a role which garnered him three Golden Globes and two Emmy Award nominations for "Best Actor in a Dramatic Series."
Personal life
Morrow was born in New Rochelle, New YorkNew Rochelle, New York
New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.The town was settled by refugee Huguenots in 1688 who were fleeing persecution in France...
, of Jewish ancestry, the son of Diane Francis (née
Married and maiden names
A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....
Markowitz), a dental hygienist
Dental hygienist
thumb|right|300px|Dental hygienist holding a scalerA dental hygienist is a licensed dental professional who specializes in preventive oral health, typically focusing on techniques in oral hygiene. Local dental regulations determine the scope of practice of dental hygienists...
, and Murray Morrow, an industrial
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
lighting
Lighting
Lighting or illumination is the deliberate application of light to achieve some practical or aesthetic effect. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources such as lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylight...
manufacturer. His parents divorce
Divorce
Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...
d when he was nine. He grew up in Miami, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, and attended Miami Sunset Senior High School, but dropped out at the beginning of his senior year to begin his acting career. He married actress Debbon Ayer in October 1998, and together they have a daughter named Tu Simone Ayer Morrow.
Career
Morrow played the lead role of Joel Fleischman in the award-winning television show Northern ExposureNorthern Exposure
Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.-Overview:The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a...
from 1990-1995. Afterward, he starred in the critically acclaimed film, Quiz Show
Quiz Show
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s...
, as Dick Goodwin
Richard N. Goodwin
Richard N. Goodwin is an American writer who may be best known as an advisor and speechwriter to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy.-Life and career:...
, a Congressional investigator intent on uncovering the corruption behind the 1950s game show scandal, and played Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks
Albert Lawrence Brooks is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian and director. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1987 for his role in Broadcast News...
' sports agent brother in Mother
Mother (1996 film)
Mother is a 1996 comedy-drama film directed by Albert Brooks, and was co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson. The film stars Brooks and Debbie Reynolds.-Plot:...
. At one point, he was slated to play the protagonist in the 1996 film version of The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film)
The Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1996 science fiction horror film, the third major movie version of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau about a scientist who attempts to convert animals into people...
, but he dropped out of the project and was replaced by David Thewlis
David Thewlis
David Thewlis is an English actor of stage and screen. His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin, in the Harry Potter film series...
. In 2000, he directed and starred in Maze
Maze (film)
Maze is a 2000 romance film about a New York painter and sculptor—Lyle Maze —with Tourette syndrome and obsessive–compulsive disorder , who falls in love with Callie , the pregnant girlfriend of Maze’s best friend Mike while Mike is away on a long stay in Africa as a doctor.-Development:After...
, about an artist with Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically wax and wane...
.
In 2002, he played Kevin Hunter on the Showtime television series Street Time. He also appeared in the TV movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
Custody
Custody (film)
Custody is a 2007 Lifetime television movie, starring Rob Morrow, James Denton, and Kay Panabaker about a widower's fight for custody of his stepdaughter when her birth father who abandoned her returns. Aired on September 8, 2007. It was filmed in and around Ottawa, ON on locations such as the...
. In 2007, he played Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times, and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the...
's doctor, Dr. Hollins, in The Bucket List
The Bucket List
The Bucket List is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Academy Award-winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman...
. From 2005 to 2010, he starred with David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz is an American actor best known for playing Professor Charlie Eppes in the television series Numb3rs. He appeared as Seth Goldstein in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its two sequels, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas...
and Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor most known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs.-Early life and education:...
in Numb3rs
NUMB3RS
Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
. On March 8, 2010 it was announced that Morrow has signed on to star in Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The...
's new series The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth (TV series)
The Whole Truth is an American legal drama series that premiered on ABC on September 22, 2010. Episodes aired on Wednesdays at 10:00 pm ET/9:00 pm CT...
on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
. The series aired on September 13, 2010 but was pulled from the ABC schedule in December. Morrow filmed 13 episodes.
Actor
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Private Resort Private Resort Private Resort is a 1985 comedy film, directed by George Bowers and written by Gordon Mitchell, Ken Segall, and Alan Wenkus. The film starred the then-unknown Rob Morrow , Johnny Depp and Andrew Dice Clay.-Plot:... |
Ben |
| Fame Fame (1982 TV series) Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although... |
Joey Laurenzano (1 episode) | |
| 1987 | Spenser: For Hire Spenser: For Hire Spenser: For Hire is a mystery television series based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. The series, developed for TV by John Wilder, differs from the novels, mostly in its lesser degree of detail.... |
Danny (1 episode) |
| Everything's Relative | Eddie Dayton (1 episode) | |
| 1989 | Monsters Monsters (TV series) Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons.In a similar vein to Tales from the... |
Vito (1 episode) |
| Tattingers Tattingers Tattingers is a comedy-drama aired by the NBC television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour situation comedy Nick & Hillary.Tattingers is the... |
Marco Bellini | |
| 1992 | Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture... |
Host |
| 1994 | Quiz Show Quiz Show Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s... |
Dick Goodwin |
| 1990–1995 | Northern Exposure Northern Exposure Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.-Overview:The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a... |
Dr. Joel Fleischman / Franz Kafka / Mikhail |
| 1996 | Last Dance Last Dance (film) Last Dance is a 1996 film starring Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid and Peter Gallagher. The prison where the film was shot is in Ridgeland, South Carolina.-Plot:... |
Rick Hayes |
| Mother | Jeff Henderson | |
| 1998 | The Day Lincoln Was Shot (TV Movie) | John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor... |
| Only Love (TV Movie) | Matthew Heller | |
| Into My Heart Into My Heart Into My Heart is a 1998 motion picture featuring Rob Morrow and Claire Forlani. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 9, 1998, the drama documents a love triangle involving a woman and two childhood friends, focusing on the themes of marriage, adultery and betrayal. It was written... |
Ben | |
| 1999 | Nearly Yours (TV Series) | Jim Clifford |
| 2000 | Other Voices Other Voices Other Voices may refer to:Literature* Other Voices, Other Rooms , the 1948 novel by Truman Capote* Other Voices , an electronic journal of cultural criticism and cultural studies... |
Jeff |
| The Thin Blue Lie The Thin Blue Lie The Thin Blue Lie is a made for television film released on August 13, 2000 about Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jonathan Neumann , who, along with his partner Phil Chadway , won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for a series of articles exposing Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo and the Philadelphia... (TV Movie) |
Jonathan Neumann | |
| Maze Maze (film) Maze is a 2000 romance film about a New York painter and sculptor—Lyle Maze —with Tourette syndrome and obsessive–compulsive disorder , who falls in love with Callie , the pregnant girlfriend of Maze’s best friend Mike while Mike is away on a long stay in Africa as a doctor.-Development:After... |
Lyle Maze | |
| Labor Pains | Ryan Keene | |
| 2001 | Hudson's Law (TV Movie) | |
| Sam the Man Sam the Man -Cast:*Fisher Stevens ... Sam Manning*Annabella Sciorra ... Cass*Alex Porter ... Saxophone Player*John Slattery ... Maxwell Slade*Annika Peterson ... Emily*Ron Rifkin ... Richard*Saverio Guerra ... Lorenzo Pugano*George Plimpton ... Himself... |
Daniel Lenz | |
| Jenifer (TV Movie) | Dr. Richard Feldman | |
| 2002 | The Guru | Josh Goldstein |
| The Emperor's Club The Emperor's Club The Emperor's Club is a 2002 drama film that tells the story of a prep school teacher and his students. Based on Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace Thief," the film is directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Kevin Kline. The film is set at a fictional boys' prep school, St. Benedict's Academy,... |
James Ellerby | |
| Night's Noontime (Short) | Dr. William Minor | |
| 2002–2003 | Street Time (TV Series) | Kevin Hunter |
| 2005 | Going Shopping Going Shopping Going Shopping is a 2005 American romance film directed by Henry Jaglom and stars Victoria Foyt, Rob Morrow, and Lee Grant .-Cast:* Victoria Foyt as Holly Gilmore* Rob Morrow as Miles* Lee Grant as Winnie... |
Miles |
| 2007 | Custody Custody (film) Custody is a 2007 Lifetime television movie, starring Rob Morrow, James Denton, and Kay Panabaker about a widower's fight for custody of his stepdaughter when her birth father who abandoned her returns. Aired on September 8, 2007. It was filmed in and around Ottawa, ON on locations such as the... (TV Movie) |
David Gordon |
| The Bucket List The Bucket List The Bucket List is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Academy Award-winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman... |
Dr. Hollins | |
| 2009 | The Grean Team (TV Movie) | Robbie Blackman |
| 2005–2010 | Numb3rs NUMB3RS Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes... (TV Series) |
Don Eppes |
| 2010 | Entourage Entourage (TV series) Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons... (TV Series) |
Ari's Attorney / Jim Lefkowitz (2 episodes) |
| The Whole Truth The Whole Truth (TV series) The Whole Truth is an American legal drama series that premiered on ABC on September 22, 2010. Episodes aired on Wednesdays at 10:00 pm ET/9:00 pm CT... (TV Series) |
Jimmy Brogan | |
| 2011 | The Good Doctor The Good Doctor (2011 film) The Good Doctor is a 2011 American thriller film written and directed by Lance Daly, and starring Orlando Bloom as the eponymous "good doctor".-Plot:... |
Dr. Waylans |
Director
- Numb3rsNUMB3RSNumb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
- Joan of ArcadiaJoan of ArcadiaJoan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi , who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given. The series originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m...
- Street Time
- OzOz (TV series)Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons...
- MazeMaze (film)Maze is a 2000 romance film about a New York painter and sculptor—Lyle Maze —with Tourette syndrome and obsessive–compulsive disorder , who falls in love with Callie , the pregnant girlfriend of Maze’s best friend Mike while Mike is away on a long stay in Africa as a doctor.-Development:After...
- The Silent Alarm