page_title: F. Murray Abraham
section_title: Theater
hierarchical_section_title: F. Murray Abraham / Career / Theater
caption_attribution_description: English: (L to R) Rupert Grint - Frank Finger Stockard Channing - Virginia Noyes Matthew Broderick - Peter Austin Megan Mullally - Julia Budder Nathan Lane - James Wicker F. Murray Abraham - Ira Drew Micah Stock (partial) - Gus It's Only a Play Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre New York, New York December 21, 2014 Matinee
context_page_description: F. Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning an Oscar for his leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus. Abraham also won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA Award nomination for the role.
  He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men, Scarface, The Name of the Rose, Last Action Hero, Star Trek: Insurrection, Finding Forrester, Inside Llewyn Davis, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Abraham is also known for his television and theatre work and was a regular cast member on the Showtime drama series Homeland, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
  Abraham voiced characters in Isle of Dogs and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. He currently stars in the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet.
context_section_description: Since Amadeus, he has mainly focused on classical theatre, and has starred in many Shakespearean productions such as Othello and Richard III. He was highlighted in many other plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett and Gilbert and Sullivan, and played the lead in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (for which he received an Obie Award).
  Abraham has focused on stage work throughout his career, giving notable performances as Pozzo in Mike Nichols's production of Waiting for Godot, Malvolio in Twelfth Night for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice for the Off-Broadway Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) in March 2007, which was performed at the Duke Theatre in New York and also at the Swan Theatre, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He reprised this role in February 2011, when he replaced Al Pacino in the Public Theater's production. In the 1997/98 Broadway season, he starred in the new chamber musical Triumph of Love opposite Betty Buckley, based on Marivaux's classic comedy. The production did not find a large audience, running 85 performances after its pre-opening preview period. He has also taught theater at Brooklyn College. In 2016, he played the title role in Classic Stage Company's production of Nathan the Wise.
  Abraham also joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company in 1984. He joined MRC the week after winning his Oscar for Best Actor for his work in Amadeus because he wanted to work with MRC Artist-in-Residence Geraldine Page (to whom he would eventually present her own Academy Award the following year), and would star opposite her in MRC's The Madwoman of Chaillot.
  In 1994, Abraham portrayed Roy Cohn in the first Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Walter Kerr Theater, replacing Ron Leibman in the role.
caption: Abraham (last full figure on right) onstage at the end of a December 2014 production of It's Only a Play
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