Early life

Linklater was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of Kristin Linklater and James Lincoln Cormeny. His mother is a Scottish-born Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Acting Division at Columbia University and a renowned teacher of vocal technique. A single mother, Kristin raised her son partly in the Berkshires, where she was a founder of the Shakespeare & Company drama troupe. Her son was eight years old when he began doing small Shakespearean roles.

His maternal grandparents were Marjorie (MacIntyre) and Eric Linklater, who was a Scottish novelist of part Swedish origin and one of the founders of the Scottish National Party. His uncles are journalist Magnus Linklater and writer Andro Linklater.

Linklater graduated in 1994 from Commonwealth School in Boston, and attended Amherst College.

Career

While first establishing himself on the stage, he made his big-screen debut in 2000's Groove. That was followed by his role as CNN correspondent Richard Roth in the HBO movie Live from Baghdad. He has since appeared in numerous movies, including Fantastic Four (2005). He had a recurring role on the television show American Dreams as well as Gideon's Crossing. He was second-in-line to play Logan on Dark Angel, but the role went to Michael Weatherly.

From 2006 until 2010 he was a main cast member in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, as the brother of Christine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

In July 2006, Linklater appeared in Keith Bunin's The Busy World Is Hushed opposite Jill Clayburgh off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. He played Hamlet at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California and the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.

On Halloween 2007, Linklater appeared in an episode of Pushing Daisies on ABC, entitled "Girth". He also completed the film The Violent Kind.

He appeared in The Public Theater's 2009 production of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, opposite Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald and Raul Esparza.

In 2011, he starred with Miranda July in The Future. He made his Broadway debut in October 2011 in Theresa Rebeck's new play Seminar opposite Alan Rickman, Jerry O'Connell, Lily Rabe, and Hettienne Park.

In 2013, he played Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the Jackie Robinson biopic film 42. Linklater also joined the cast of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom in a recurring role, playing senior producer Jerry Dantana. He remained for six episodes, until earning the role of Andrew Keanelly on the CBS series The Crazy Ones, which premiered in September 2013.

Personal life

Linklater married playwright Jessica Goldberg in January 2002; they divorced in 2012. They have one daughter. In 2014, Linklater began dating actress Lily Rabe.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Groove	David Turner
2002	Live from Baghdad	Richard Roth	Television film
2003	Final Draft	Marty
2005	Sailor's Girl, TheThe Sailor's Girl	N/A	Short film
2005	Everything's Gone Green	William	Short film
2005	Fantastic Four	Leonard
2006	Affair Game	Henry	Short film
2008	Violent Kind, TheThe Violent Kind	Frank	Direct-to-DVD
2011	I'm Coming Over	Buffalo	Short film
2011	Future, TheThe Future	Jason
2012	Battleship	Cal Zapata
2012	Lola Versus	Henry
2013	42	Ralph Branca
2013	Redemption Trail	David
2014	Angriest Man in Brooklyn, TheThe Angriest Man in Brooklyn	Tommy Altmann
2014	Magic in the Moonlight	Brice
2015	One More Time	Tim
2015	Ithaca	Tom Spangler
2015	The Big Short	Porter Collins

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000-2001	Gideon's Crossing	Dr. Bruce Cherry	20 episodes
2003	Happy Family	Todd Brennan	Episode: "Pilot" (scenes deleted)
2003	Dragnet	Kevin Grimes	Episode: "The Magic Bullet"
2004	American Dreams	Pvt. Stan Silver	9 episodes
2004	5ive Days to Midnight	Carl Axelrod	5 episodes
2006-2010	New Adventures of Old Christine, TheThe New Adventures of Old Christine	Matthew Kimble	88 episodes
2007	Pushing Daisies	John Joseph Jacobs	Episode: "Girth"
2009	Ugly Betty	Evan York	Episode: "Blue on Blue"
2012	Big C, TheThe Big C	Dave Cooper	4 episodes
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	David Morris	Episode: "Manhattan Vigil"
2012-2013	Good Wife, TheThe Good Wife	David LaGuardia	2 episodes
2013	Newsroom, TheThe Newsroom	Jerry Dantana	6 episodes
2013-2014	Crazy Ones, TheThe Crazy Ones	Andrew Keanelly	22 episodes

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