Tony Goldwyn

**Anthony Howard Goldwyn** (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, director, producer, singer and political activist. His well-known roles include Carl Bruner in _Ghost_, Tarzan in _Tarzan_, Colonel Bagley in _The Last Samurai_ and the President in the ABC political drama _Scandal_.

## Early life

Goldwyn was born on May 20, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant, from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska.

## Career

Following his departure from drama school, Goldwyn began acting in guest star roles in the mid-1980s. Goldwyn is well known for his portrayal of Carl Bruner, friend-turned-betrayer of Patrick Swayze's character Sam Wheat in _Ghost_. He is also well known for his turn on the comedy series _Designing Women_, 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_, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1986|_Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives_|Darren|Debut role|
|1987|_Gaby: A True Story_|David||
|1989|_Dark Holiday_|Ken Horton|a.k.a. _Passport to Terror_|
|1990|_Ghost_|Carl Bruner|Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor|
|1992|_Kuffs_|Ted Bukovsky||
|1992|_Traces of Red_|Steve Frayn||
|1993|_The Pelican Brief_|Fletcher Coal||
|1994|_The Last Tattoo_|Capt. Michael Starwood||
|1995|_The Last Word_|Stan||
|1995|_Nixon_|Harold Nixon|Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture|
|1995|_Reckless_|Tom||
|1995|_Pocahontas: The Legend_|Sir Edwin Wingfield||
|1996|_The Substance of Fire_|Aaron Geldhart||
|1997|_Trouble on the Corner_|Jeff Stewart||
|1997|_Kiss the Girls_|Dr. William 'Will' Rudolph||
|1998|_The Lesser Evil_|Frank O'Brian||
|1999|_Tarzan_|Tarzan|Voice|
|2000|_The 6th Day_|Michael Drucker||
|2001|_An American Rhapsody_|Peter Sandor||
|2001|_Bounce_|Greg Janello||
|2002|_Abandon_|Dr. David Schaffer||
|2002|_Joshua_|Joshua||
|2002|_Kingdom Hearts_|Tarzan|Voice, Video game|
|2003|_The Last Samurai_|Colonel Bagley||
|2003|_Ash Tuesday_|Elliott||
|2005|_The Godfather of Green Bay_|Big Jake Norquist||
|2005|_American Gun_|Frank||
|2005|_Romance and Cigarettes_|Kitty's First Love||
|2005|_The Sisters_|Vincent Antonelli||
|2005|_Ghosts never Sleep_|Jared Dolan||
|2009|_Poliwood_|Himself|Documentary|
|2009|_The Last House on the Left_|John Collingwood||
|2011|_The Mechanic_|Dean Sanderson||
|2014|_Divergent_|Andrew Prior||
|2015|_The Divergent Series: Insurgent_|Andrew Prior||
|2016|_The Belko Experiment_|Barry Norris||
|2017|_All I Wish_|Adam||
|2017|_Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House_|Ed Miller||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Tony Goldwyn
- **image**: Tony Goldwyn (48996884641) (1).jpg
- **caption**: Goldwyn in 2019
- **birth name**: Anthony Howard Goldwyn
- **birth place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **yearsactive**: 1986–present
- **height**: 1.88 m
- **occupation**: Actor, director, producer, singer, political activist
- **children**: 2
- **relatives**: Liz Goldwyn (half-sister)