Evan Handler - wikipedia Evan Handler Evan Handler Handler at a 2009 Golden Globe Awards party ( 1961 - 01 - 10 ) January 10, 1961 ( age 57 ) New York City, New York, U.S. Education Juilliard School Occupation Actor Years active 1981 -- present Spouse ( s ) Elisa Atti ( m. 2003 ) Children Evan Handler ( born January 10, 1961 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Charlie Runkle, Hank Moody 's comically bumbling friend and agent, on Californication ( 2007 -- 2014 ) and Harry Goldenblatt, a divorce attorney and later husband of Charlotte York on Sex and the City ( 2002 -- 2004 ). Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Acting 2.2 Writing 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External links Early life Handler was born in New York City, to secular Jewish parents, the son of Enid Irene, a mental health administrator, and Murry Raymond Handler, an agency owner and advertising designer. He was raised in the Town of Cortlandt, New York, near Croton - on - Hudson, New York, and attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. After graduating from high school a year early, he moved to New York City and worked as an intern at the Chelsea Theater Center. During that time he appeared in the Off - Broadway plays Biography : A Game and Strider : The Story of a Horse. He then attended the Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Division 's Group 12 ( 1979 -- 1983 ), which also included Kevin Spacey, Ving Rhames, and Elizabeth McGovern. Handler left the four - year program after less than two years to accept a role in the 1981 film Taps. Career Acting Handler has appeared in television dramas and sitcoms including Six Feet Under, Friends, Law & Order, The West Wing, Miami Vice, Sex and the City, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ( as staff writer Ricky Tahoe ), Ed, Lost and 24. He was a co-star in the ABC sitcoms It 's Like, You Know... and Hot Properties and starred in the ill - fated FOX sitcom Woops !. He has also appeared in several major feature film roles, including Ransom, 1996 ; The Chosen, 1981 ; Sweet Lorraine, 1987 ; and Taps, 1981. In 2000, Handler portrayed Larry Fine in the made - for - TV biopic The Three Stooges. He played Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in the HBO movie, Too Big to Fail. The movie was based on the book of the same name written by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Handler has been most recently seen on Californication where he plays Charlie Runkle, the best friend and agent to David Duchovny 's character, Hank Moody. In 2016 he had a recurring role in American Crime Story : The People v. O.J. Simpson as Alan Dershowitz, an appellate adviser for the defense in the O.J. Simpson murder case in 1995. In 1991, Handler famously walked off stage during the first act of a performance of the Broadway play I Hate Hamlet after co-star Nicol Williamson broke choreography during a sword - fighting scene and struck Handler on the backside. Handler responded later, stating, `` I removed myself from the production because from the first day of rehearsals I have endured the show 's producers condoning Nicol Williamson 's persistent abusiveness to other cast members. '' Handler 's understudy continued the performance, for which Gregory Peck and Elaine Stritch were in attendance. Writing Handler is also an author. His first book, Time On Fire : My Comedy of Terrors, tells the story of his unlikely recovery from acute myeloid leukemia in his mid-20s. His second, It 's Only Temporary... The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive, tells the story of his long journey toward gratitude in the years after his illness. The book was released in May 2008. Handler has written for several nationally distributed magazines, including ELLE, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Mirabella. Handler contributes regularly to The Huffington Post. Personal life Evan married Elisa Atti, an Italian - born chemist, in 2003, and they have a daughter, Sofia Clementina Handler ( born January 17, 2007 ). Handler has a brother Lowell and a sister Lillian. Lowell Handler, a writer and photographer, is the author of the book Twitch & Shout : A Touretter 's Tale and the star, narrator, and associate producer of the Emmy - nominated PBS television documentary Twitch & Shout, in which Evan appeared. References Jump up ^ Silverman, Stephen M. ( 2003 - 10 - 16 ). `` Evan Handler Leads Celeb Marrying Spree ''. People. Retrieved 2012 - 05 - 06. Jump up ^ Andrea, Waxman ( 2008 - 10 - 29 ). `` Evan Handler : In spite of being doomed, we might as well have a few laughs ''. The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2014 - 08 - 09. Retrieved 2012 - 05 - 06. ^ Jump up to : `` Evan Handler Biography ''. Yahoo Movies !. Jump up ^ `` Alumni News ''. The Juilliard School. September 2008. Archived from the original on 2011 - 11 - 11. Jump up ^ `` Alumni News ''. The Juilliard School. April 2010. Archived from the original on 2011 - 11 - 11. Jump up ^ `` Alumni News ''. The Juilliard School. October 2011. Archived from the original on 2011 - 11 - 11. Jump up ^ `` Economic Crisis Unfurls in Hushed Suspense ''. Jump up ^ `` Actor was sword of volatile ''. The New York Post. January 26, 2012. Jump up ^ `` ' I Hate Hamlet ' Co-Star Walks Out ''. The New York Times. May 4, 1991. Jump up ^ Handler, Lowell ( 2004 ). Twitch and Shout : A Touretter 's Tale. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. p. 256. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8166 - 4451 - 3. Jump up ^ Lowell Handler on IMDb External links Official website Evan Handler on IMDb Evan Handler talks about being crass on Sex and the City, being Jewish, and his bout with leukemia Evan Handler : Living Through It WorldCat Identities ISNI : 0000 0000 3478 3016 LCCN : n95033963 SNAC : w6rw4m5t VIAF : 9090886 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evan_Handler&oldid=861712779 '' Categories : 1961 births Male actors from New York City American male film actors American male television actors Jewish American male actors Juilliard School alumni Living people People from Cortlandt, New York Leukemia survivors Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia تۆرکجه Čeština Dansk Deutsch Español فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano עברית ქართული Nederlands 日本 語 Polski Русский Українська 7 more Edit links This page was last edited on 29 September 2018, at 13 : 05 ( UTC ). 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Question: who played harry on sex and the city
Answer: Evan Handler