Peter Friedman

Known for ActingBorn 1949-04-24 (age 77)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Baby Bob

Succession

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Person of Interest

Ghost Whisperer

Jim Henson Idea Man

The Muppet Show

The Rules of the Game

Brooklyn Bridge

Synecdoche, New York

Damages

The Heidi Chronicles

Hothouse

She Said

Heist

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Miami Vice

Without a Trace

Law & Order

Love & Other Drugs

Power and Beauty

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

The Savages

Made in Jersey

Safe

The Affair

The Messenger

Prince of the City

Side Effects

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

I'm Not There

Daniel

Spinning Into Butter

Unconscious

Finnegan Begin Again

Paycheck

666 Park Avenue

Single White Female

I Shot Andy Warhol

5 Doctors

Blink

Someone Like You...

King of the Corner

The Seventh Sign

Great Performances

Rage of Angels

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder

In the Presence of Mine Enemies