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Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. He portrayed the villain
Villain

A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a history narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters....
 Carl Bruner in Ghost
Ghost (film)

Ghost is a 1990 in film romance film fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker ....
, Kendall Dobbs in Designing Women
Designing Women

Designing Women is an United States television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia....
 and the voice of the title character
Tarzán

Tarz?n was a half-hour syndicated series that aired 1991 in television?1994 in television. In this version of the show, Tarzan was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane turned into a French ecologist....
 of the Disney animated Tarzan
Tarzan (1999 film)

Tarzan is a 1999 United States animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999....
 and Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts

is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts , it is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company....
.

wyn was born in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, the son of Jennifer Howard
Jennifer Howard

Jennifer Howard , born Clare Jenness Howard, was the daughter of prominent author and screenwriter Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames ....
 and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. is an United States film producer.Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actress Frances Howard and the pioneer motion picture mogul Samuel Goldwyn....
 Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios....
 and film actress Frances Howard
Frances Howard (actress)

Frances Howard was a minor United States actress, also the second wife of Academy Award-winning producer Samuel Goldwyn....
, while his maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard

Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Awards in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind ....
 and actress Clare Eames.






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Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. He portrayed the villain
Villain

A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a history narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters....
 Carl Bruner in Ghost
Ghost (film)

Ghost is a 1990 in film romance film fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker ....
, Kendall Dobbs in Designing Women
Designing Women

Designing Women is an United States television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia....
 and the voice of the title character
Tarzán

Tarz?n was a half-hour syndicated series that aired 1991 in television?1994 in television. In this version of the show, Tarzan was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane turned into a French ecologist....
 of the Disney animated Tarzan
Tarzan (1999 film)

Tarzan is a 1999 United States animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999....
 and Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts

is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts , it is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company....
.

Biography


Personal life

Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, the son of Jennifer Howard
Jennifer Howard

Jennifer Howard , born Clare Jenness Howard, was the daughter of prominent author and screenwriter Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames ....
 and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. is an United States film producer.Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actress Frances Howard and the pioneer motion picture mogul Samuel Goldwyn....
 Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios....
 and film actress Frances Howard
Frances Howard (actress)

Frances Howard was a minor United States actress, also the second wife of Academy Award-winning producer Samuel Goldwyn....
, while his maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard

Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Awards in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind ....
 and actress Clare Eames. Goldwyn attended Hamilton College
Hamilton College

Hamilton College is a private, independent, Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, New York. In 2007, U.S....
 in Clinton, New York
Clinton, New York

Clinton is the name of several places in New York State:*Clinton, Clinton County, New York*Clinton, Dutchess County, New York*Clinton, Oneida County, New York...
, Brandeis University
Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a Private university research university with a liberal arts focus, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, nine miles west of Boston, Massachusetts....
 in Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham, Massachusetts

One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
 (where he received his B.F.A
Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States, the Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate Academic degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual arts or performing arts....
), and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , founded 1861, is a leading United Kingdom drama school in west London.Henry Wylde founded the London Academy of Music in 1867 and was Principal there....
. Goldwyn is married to production designer Jane Musky and the couple have two daughters.

Career

Goldwyn's best remembered role is most likely that of Carl Bruner, friend of Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze

Patrick Wayne Swayze is an United States actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. He is best-known as a romantic leading man in films such as Dirty Dancing and Ghost , for which he received Golden Globe Award nominations, along with his performances in Red Dawn , Road House , and Point Break ....
's character Sam Wheat in Ghost
Ghost

File:Henry Fuseli- Hamlet and his father's Ghost.JPGA ghost is popularly held to be the disembodied spirit or soul of a death person. Popularly described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular List of reportedly haunted locations that they were associated with in life or at time of death....
. He is also well-known for his turn on the comedy series, Designing Women
Designing Women

Designing Women is an United States television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia....
 in which he played a young interior designer named Kendall Dobbs who was HIV positive, and asked the women of Sugarbakers to design his funeral. In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of a French people and two well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to...
, Goldwyn played astronaut
Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a List of human spaceflight programs to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
 Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He is List of Apollo astronauts#People who have walked on the Moon Moon....
, commander of Apollo 11
Apollo 11

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Apollo program and the third human voyage to the Moon....
. He also provided the voice of the title character from 1999 animated feature film, Tarzan
Tarzan (1999 film)

Tarzan is a 1999 United States animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999....
, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney Feature Animation

Walt Disney Animation Studios is a key element of The Walt Disney Company, and the oldest existing animation studio in the world. The feature animation studio was an integrated part of Walt Disney Productions from 1934 until 1986, when, during the corporate restructuring to create The Walt Disney Company, it officially became a subsidiary of...
. He reprised the role in the video games "Tarzan Untamed" and "Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts

is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts , it is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company....
."

Also a stage actor, Goldwyn has appeared twice in Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway

Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of Play , musical theater or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, New York, the hub of the theater industry in the United States, the term later becam...
 shows at Second Stage Theatre
Second Stage Theatre

Second Stage Theatre is a contemporary American Off-Broadway theater company. It was founded by Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman in 1979. The name refers to the intention to give 'second stagings' to contemporary American plays that originally failed to find an audience due to scheduling problems, inappropriate venues or limited performanc...
 and on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 at Circle in the Square Theatre
Circle in the Square Theatre

The Circle in the Square Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre in midtown Manhattan.The original Circle in the Square was founded by Jose Quintero and was located at 5 Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village....
. At Second Stage he appeared in Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

Theresa Rebeck is an United States playwright, television writer and novelist.She was born in Kenwood, Ohio, and graduated from Cincinnati's Ursuline Academy in 1976....
's Spike Heels (1992) alongside Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an United States film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, A Few Good Men , Stir of Echoes, Queens Logic, Wild Things, JFK , Murder in the First, Apollo 13 , Mystic River, The Woodsman, Footloose, Friday the 13th , Diner , and Balto ....
 and Julie White
Julie White

Julie White is an United States Tony Award-winning actress known to television audiences for her supporting role on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom Grace Under Fire....
. Most recently, in the summer of 2006 at Second Stage Theatre
Second Stage Theatre

Second Stage Theatre is a contemporary American Off-Broadway theater company. It was founded by Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman in 1979. The name refers to the intention to give 'second stagings' to contemporary American plays that originally failed to find an audience due to scheduling problems, inappropriate venues or limited performanc...
 he starred opposite Kate Burton
Kate Burton (actress)

Katherine Burton is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning British actor....
 in another Rebeck play, The Water's Edge. He recently appeared in the episodes "Brother's Keeper" and "Endgame" on Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an United States television program set in New York City. Criminal Intent premiered on September 30 2001....
, playing Det. Robert Goren's
Robert Goren

Det. Robert "Bobby" Goren is a fictional character featured in the NBC-USA Network Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The show moved to the USA network in October 2007 for the start of its 7th season....
 estranged older brother, Frank.

Filmography

  • Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
    Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

    Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is a 1986 slasher film, the sixth film in the Friday the 13th . The film was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin....
     (1986)
  • Gaby: A True Story
    Gaby: A True Story

    Gaby: A True Story is a 1987 United States-Mexican film directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Michael Love and Mart?n Salinas....
     (1987)
  • Ghost
    Ghost (film)

    Ghost is a 1990 in film romance film fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker ....
     (1990)
  • Kuffs
    Kuffs

    Kuffs is a 1992 in film comedy film directed by Bruce A. Evans and produced by Raynold Gideon. It stars Christian Slater and Milla Jovovich....
     (1991)
  • The Pelican Brief
    The Pelican Brief (film)

    The Pelican Brief is a 1993 in film legal thriller film based on the The Pelican Brief by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham....
     (1993)
  • Nixon
    Nixon (film)

    Nixon is a 1995 in film USA biographical film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal life of former President of the United States Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins....
     (1995)
  • Reckless
    Reckless (1995 film)

    Reckless is a 1995 in film United States dark comedy film directed by Norman Ren?. The screenplay by Craig Lucas is based on his 1983 play of the same title....
     (1995)
  • Kiss the Girls
    Kiss the Girls (film)

    Kiss the Girls is a 1997 in film United States Thriller directed by Gary Fleder. The screenplay by David Klass is based on the bestselling Kiss the Girls by James Patterson....
     (1997)
  • A Walk on the Moon
    A Walk on the Moon

    A Walk On The Moon is a 1999 drama film starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Anna Paquin. The movie, which was set against the backdrop of the Woodstock festival rock festival of 1969 and the moon landing of that year, was distributed by Miramax Films....
     (1999) (director)
  • Tarzan
    Tarzan (1999 film)

    Tarzan is a 1999 United States animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999....
     (1999) (voice)
  • The 6th Day
    The 6th Day

    The 6th Day is a 2000 in film action film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He plays family man Adam Gibson, who is human cloning against his will....
     (2000)
  • Bounce
    Bounce (film)

    Bounce is a 2000 in film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, and directed by Don Roos....
     (2000)
  • Joshua
    Joshua (2002 film)

    Joshua is a 2002 film based on the Joshua by Joseph Girzone. The movie was produced by Crusader Entertainment LLC and directed by Joseph Purdy....
     (2002)
  • Kingdom Hearts
    Kingdom Hearts

    is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts , it is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company....
     (2002) (voice of Tarzan)
  • The Last Samurai
    The Last Samurai

    The Last Samurai is a 2003 drama film/war film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan ....
     (2003)
  • The Godfather of Green Bay
    The Godfather of Green Bay

    The Godfather of Green Bay is a fictional comedic movie released in 2005 in film. It follows the tale of Stand-up comedy Joe Keegan . Joe makes a last ditch effort to save his career by traveling to a small, fictional Wisconsin town where a scout for The Tonight Show is in the audience at "Rocktoberfest"....
     (2005)
  • The Last Kiss
    The Last Kiss

    The Last Kiss is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States drama film which is based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino....
     (2006) (director)
  • Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
     (2006) (director of two episodes)
  • Dexter (2006) (actor in one episode and director of four episodes)
  • Private Practice
    Private Practice

    Private Practice is a medical drama television program created by Shonda Rhimes. A spin-off of Grey's Anatomy, the series chronicles the life of Addison Montgomery as she leaves Seattle in order to join a medical practice in Los Angeles....
     (2007) (director of one episode)
  • The Last house on the left
    The Last House on the Left (2009 film)

    The Last House on the Left is a 2009 Cinema of the United States horror film directed by Dennis Iliadis, and written by Carl Ellsworth and Adam Alleca....
     (2009) (father)


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