Tony Goldwyn

Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, producer, director and political activist. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated film Tarzan. He stars in the ABC drama Scandal, as Fitzgerald Grant III, President of the United States.
==Early life==
Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were mogul Samuel Goldwyn and actress Frances Howard. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. One of his maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maryland Governor and Senator William Thomas Hamilton. Goldwyn attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (where he received his B.F.A), and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
==Career==
Following his departure from drama school, Goldwyn began acting in guest star roles in the mid 1980's. 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. He also voiced the title character from the 1999 animated feature film, Tarzan, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and reprised the role in the video games Disney's Tarzan Untamed and Kingdom Hearts. He had a recurring role on the NBC-Universal drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Frank Goren, brother of lead character Robert Goren, played by Vincent D'Onofrio. He also had acting and directing duties for the first season of "Dexter" for Showtime (Brother John Goldwyn is Executive Producer).
As a stage actor, Goldwyn has appeared twice in Off-Broadway shows at Second Stage Theatre and on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre. At Second Stage he appeared in Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels (1992) alongside Kevin Bacon and Julie White. Most recently, in the summer of 2006 at Second Stage Theatre he starred opposite Kate Burton in another Rebeck play, The Water's Edge. Goldwyn played J.D. Sheldrake, the philandering business executive, in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth. The cast recording was released on June 23, 2010, with Goldwyn in three tracks.
Goldwyn played Captain von Trapp (opposite Laura Osnes as Maria) in a concert performance of The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall on April 25, 2012. The benefit included opera singer Stephanie Blythe as the Mother Abbess, Brooke Shields as Baroness Schraeder and Patrick Page as Max.
As a director, Goldwyn has directed three feature films, A Walk On The Moon, Someone Like You and Conviction. He has also directed many episodes of television series such as Without a Trace, The L Word, Dexter, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. In 2014, he directed the pilot episode of the WE tv series, The Divide, of which he also served as executive producer along with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard LaGravenese.
Since 2012, he has appeared as President Fitzgerald Grant III in ABC television series Scandal.
In 2013, Goldwyn was cast in new Lifetime movie, Outlaw Prophet, as Warren Jeffs. In 2014, he appeared in Divergent as Andrew Prior, Caleb (Ansel Elgort) and Beatrice's (Shailene Woodley) father. In 2015 he signed on to star in James Gunn's horror thriller film The Belko Experiment. 
== Activism ==
A former President of the Creative Coalition, Goldwyn is also heavily involved with arts advocacy. He is also a spokesperson of the AmeriCares Foundation. He is also an avid supporter of Hillary Clinton and in 2016 directed a commercial featuring his Scandal co-star Kerry Washington, Viola Davis (of How to Get Away with Murder), Ellen Pompeo, and Shonda Rhimes in support of Clinton's Presidential Campaign.
==Personal life==
Goldwyn has been married to production designer Jane Michelle Musky since 1987. They have two daughters. Additionally, Goldwyn's brother John is a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of Dexter. His brother Peter is also a film producer and the current President of Samuel Goldwyn Films.
==Filmography==
===Films===
Title 	Year	Role 	Notes
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives	1986	Darren 	
Gaby: A True Story 	1987	David 	
Dark Holiday 	1989	Ken Horton 	
Ghost 	1990	Carl Bruner 	
Kuffs 	1992	Ted Bukovsky 	
Traces of Red 	1992	Steve Frayn 	
The Pelican Brief 	1993	Fletcher Coal 	
The Last Tattoo 	1994	Capt. Michael Starwood 	
The Last Word 	1995	Stan 	
Nixon 	1995	Harold Nixon 	
Reckless 	1995	Tom 	
The Substance of Fire 	1996	Aaron Geldhart 	
Trouble on the Corner 	1997	Jeff Stewart 	
Kiss the Girls 	1997	Dr. William 'Will' Rudolph	
The Lesser Evil 	1998	Frank O'Brian 	
Tarzan 	1999	Tarzan (voice) 	
Pocahontas: The Legend 	1999	Sir Edwin Wingfield 	
The 6th Day 	2000	Michael Drucker 	
An American Rhapsody 	2001	Peter 	
Bounce 	2001	Greg Janello 	
Abandon 	2002	Dr. David Schaffer 	
Joshua 	2002	Joshua 	
Kingdom Hearts 	2002	Tarzan (voice) 	Video game
The Last Samurai 	2003	Colonel Bagley 	
Ash Tuesday 	2003	Elliott 	
The Godfather of Green Bay 	2005	Big Jake Norquist 	
American Gun 	2005	Frank 	
Romance and Cigarettes 	2005	Kitty's First Love 	
The Sisters 	2005	Vincent Antonelli 	
Ghosts never Sleep 	2005	Jared Dolan 	
Poliwood 	2009	Himself 	Documentary
The Last House on the Left 	2009	John Collingwood 	
The Mechanic 	2011	Dean 	
Divergent 	2014	Andrew Prior 	
The Belko Experiment 	2015	Barry Norris 	
The Divergent Series: Insurgent 	2015	Andrew Prior 	
Felt 	2017	 	Filming
===Television===
Title 	Year 	Episode 	Role
St. Elsewhere 	1987 	Episode: "Schwarzwald" 	Henry
Matlock 	1987 	Episode: "The Doctors" 	Dr. Mark Campion
CBS Summer Playhouse 	1987 	Episode: "Mabel and Max" 	Paul
Designing Women 	1987 	Episode: "Killing All the Right People" 	Kendall
L.A. Law 	1988 	Episode: "Fetus Completus" 	Chris Arnett
Hunter 	1988 	Episode: "Murder He Wrote" 	Byron
Favorite Son 	1988 	TV mini series 	
Murphy Brown 	1988 	Episode: "Respect" 	Bobby Powell
Tales from the Crypt 	1991 	Episode: "Abra Cadaver" 	Dr. Carl Fairbanks
L'Amérique en otage 	1991 	TV Movie 	Jody Powell
The Last Mile 	1992 	TV Short 	
Taking the Heat 	1993 	TV Movie 	Michael
Love Matters 	1993 	TV Movie 	Geoffrey
Doomsday Gun 	1994 	TV Movie 	Donald Duvall
Under Fire 	1995 	Pilot 	James Warren
A Woman of Independent Means	1995 	TV mini series 	Robert Steed
Truman 	1995 	TV Movie 	Clark Clifford
The Boys Next Door 	1996 	TV Movie 	Jack Palmer
The Song of the Lark 	1997 	TV Short 	Fred Ottenburg
From the Earth to the Moon 	1998 	2 episodes 	Neil Armstrong
Frasier 	2001 	Episode: "Love Stinks" 	Roger
American Masters 	2001 	Documentary; episode: "Goldwyn The Man and His Movies"	Himself
The L Word 	2004–2005 	2 episodes 	Burr Connor
Without a Trace 	2004 	2 episodes 	Greg Knowles / Rick Knowles
Dexter 	2006 	Episode: "Shrink Wrap" 	Dr. Emmett Meridian
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	2007–2008 	4 episodes 	Frank Goren
The Good Wife 	2009 	Episode: "Lifeguard" 	Judge Henry Baxter
Drop Dead Diva 	2011 	Episode: "Closure" 	Alan Roberts
The Unknown 	2012 	Episode: "Spare the Child" 	Bill Watson
Scandal 	2012–present	Main cast 	President Fitzgerald Grant III
Outlaw Prophet 	2014 	TV Movie 	Warren Jeffs
===Director===
Title 	Year 	Episode
A Walk on the Moon	1999 	Also producer
Someone Like You 	2001 	
Without a Trace 	2004 	Episode: "American Goddess"
The L Word 	2004–2005	3 episodes
Grey's Anatomy 	2006 	2 episodes
The Last Kiss 	2006 	
Law and Order 	2006 	Episode: "Thinking Makes It So"
Dexter 	2006–2007	4 episodes
Private Practice 	2007 	Episode: "In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor..."
Six Degrees 	2007 	Episode: "Ray's Back"
Kidnapped 	2007 	Episode: "Acknowledgement"
Alibi 	2007 	
Dirty Sexy Money 	2007 	Episode: "The Nutcracker"
Conviction 	2010 	Also producer
Damages 	2010 	Episode: "Flight's at 11:08"
Justified 	2010–2012	3 episodes
Hawthorne 	2011 	Episode: "To Tell the Truth"
Scandal 	2012–2015	69 episodes
The Divide 	2014 	Also producer
===Theater===
Title 	Year	Role
Tom Jones 	1988	
The Sum of Us 	1989	
Carthaginians 	1990	
Picnic 	1991	
Spike Heels 	1992	Andrew
Lady in the Dark 	1994	Charley Johnson
Holiday 	1995	Johnny Case
The Water's Edge 	2006	Richard
Promises, Promises 	2010	J.D. Sheldrake
24 Hour Plays Broadway	2010	
Broadway Backwards 5 	2010	
The Sound of Music 	2012	Captain von Trapp
===Audiobook===
Title 	Author 	Year
The Grifters 	Jim Thompson 	1991
Tenth Commandment 	Lawrence Sanders	1992
Dead Irish (Dismas Hardy Series #1)	John Lescroart 	2000
The Millionaires 	Brad Meltzer 	2005
The Devil in the White City 	Erik Larson 	2007
A Death in Vienna 	Daniel Silva 	2007
Kate Remembered 	A. Scott Berg 	2007
Thunderstruck 	Erik Larson 	2008
===Soundtrack===
Title 	Year	Album 	Notes
Wanting Things 	2010	Promises, Promises	
Christmas Day 	2010	Promises, Promises	feat Ashley Amber
It's Our Little Secret	2010	Promises, Promises	feat Sean Hayes
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