Peter Friedman
Date of birth: 1949-04-24
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.
Movie Credits
I'm Not Rappaport
1996-12-24
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His compan
I'm Not There
2007-10-01
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his
The Seventh Sign
1988-04-01
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's
Good Grief
2021-10-10
On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their resp
The Savages
2007-11-28
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a
Safe
1995-06-23
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with
Someone Like You...
2001-03-30
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is i
Single White Female
1992-08-14
Having recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young
Freedomland
2006-02-17
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial pro
Paycheck
2003-12-25
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highl
Love & Other Drugs
2010-11-22
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets h
The Heidi Chronicles
1995-10-15
Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, a
Harvest
2011-03-05
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their pat
Side Effects
2013-02-07
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's u
Coming Up Roses
2011-09-23
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed
Two Against Time
2002-04-21
This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery help
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000-02-27
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hy
Blink
1993-10-01
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation p
Carmen & Moony
2023-12-01
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an
Daddy's Girl
2022-01-20
A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s
Ragtime Reunion Concert
2024-03-13
This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an ele
Keep in Touch
2015-04-16
After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that s
She Said
2022-11-17
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g
Breaking Upwards
2009-03-14
'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codep
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991-09-22
A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he s
Christmas Evil
1980-11-01
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save t
Finnegan Begin Again
1985-02-24
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drift
Synecdoche, New York
2008-10-24
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li
The Messenger
2009-11-13
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army
Sundowners
2019-01-26
Ali and her father cook, drink, and ignore what's going on in the next room.
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005-08-07
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein ar
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa
Piaf
1984-06-10
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This
The Rules of the Game
1975-04-30
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia
Daniel
1983-08-26
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Sovie
Power and Beauty
2002-07-21
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
Unconscious
2006-05-05
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing
Prince of the City
1981-08-19
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help el
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996-05-01
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in he
King of the Corner
2004-06-08
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughte
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997-04-20
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultima
The Variable
2024-10-19
An “ethnically ambiguous” actor struggles to adjust to stereotypes projected onto him during the aud
Marina
2025-03-29
Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for h
King Hamlet
2025-08-29
Actor Oscar Isaac takes on the iconic role of Shakespeare's Danish prince in an intimate look at his
Spinning Into Butter
2009-03-27
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position wh
Creating Ragtime
1998-01-21
A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024-05-18
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a f