Early life

Patinkin was born Mandel Bruce Patinkin in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1952, the son of Doris "Doralee" (née Sinton), a homemaker, and Lester Patinkin, who operated two large Chicago-area metal factories, the People's Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America. His mother wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook. Patinkin's cousins include Mark Patinkin, an author and nationally syndicated columnist for The Providence Journal; Sheldon Patinkin of Columbia College Chicago's Theater Department, a founder of The Second City; and Bonnie Miller Rubin, a Chicago Tribune reporter.

Patinkin grew up in an upper-middle-class family, descended from Jewish immigrants (from Russia and Poland), and was raised in Conservative Judaism, attending religious school daily "from the age of seven to 13 or 14" and singing in synagogue choirs, as well as attending the Camp Surah in Michigan.

He attended South Shore High School, Harvard St. George School, and Kenwood High School (later renamed Kenwood Academy), and graduated in 1970. He attended the University of Kansas and the Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 5: 1972-1976). At Juilliard, he was a classmate of Kelsey Grammer. When the producers of the popular American sitcom Cheers were holding auditions for the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, Patinkin put Grammer's name forward.

Career

After some television commercial and radio appearances (including the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974), Patinkin had his first success in musical theater, where he played the part of Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979. Patinkin went on to win the 1980 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. He then moved to film, playing parts in movies such as Yentl and Ragtime. He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor (Musical).

Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's 1987 The Princess Bride, in which he delivers the iconic line "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Patinkin found his studies a huge asset in The Princess Bride, playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, short of the main character, and part of his role included proficiency in fencing at a professional level. Over the next decade, he continued to appear in movies, such as Dick Tracy and Alien Nation.

On Broadway, Patinkin appeared in the musical The Secret Garden in 1991, and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also released two solo albums, titled Mandy Patinkin (1989) and Dress Casual (1990).

In 1994, Patinkin took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS's Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award. However, despite the award and the ratings success of the show, Patinkin left the show during the second season because he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife. He returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, but it was later canceled in 2000. Since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has appeared in a number of films. However, he has mostly performed as a singer, releasing three more albums. In 1995, he guest-starred in The Simpsons in the episode "Lisa's Wedding" as Hugh Parkfield, Lisa's future English groom.

Mamaloshen, Patinkin's musical production of songs sung entirely in Yiddish, premiered in 1998. He has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the United States. The recorded version won a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis award in Germany.

In 1999 he co-starred in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland as Huxley. He returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor (Musical). In 2003-2004 he appeared in the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me as Rube Sofer. In 2004 he played a six-week engagement of his one-man concert at the Off-Broadway complex Dodger Stages.

In September 2005, Patinkin debuted in the role of Jason Gideon, an experienced profiler just coming back to work after a series of nervous breakdowns, in the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

Patinkin was absent from a table read for Criminal Minds and did not return for a third season. The departure from the show was not due to contractual or salary matters, but over creative differences. He left apologetic letters for his fellow cast members explaining his reasons and wishing them luck. Many weeks before his departure, in a videotaped interview carried in the online magazine Monaco Revue, Patinkin told journalists at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo that he loathed violence on television and was uncomfortable with certain scenes in Criminal Minds. He called his choice to do Criminal Minds his "biggest public mistake," and stated that he "thought it was something very different. I never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year. It was very destructive to my soul and my personality, and after that, I didn't think I would get to work in television again."

He spoke of having planned to tour the world with a musical and wanting to inject more comedy into the entertainment business. In later episodes, during the 2007-08 season, Jason Gideon was written out of the series and replaced by Special Agent David Rossi (played by Joe Mantegna).

On October 14, 2009, it was announced that Patinkin would be a guest star on an episode of Three Rivers, which aired on November 15, 2009. He played a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease injured in a car accident who asks the doctors at Three Rivers Hospital to take him off life support so his organs can be donated. He filmed an appearance on The Whole Truth that had been scheduled to air December 15, 2010, but ABC pulled the series from its schedule two weeks prior.

He starred in the new musical Paradise Found, co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman, at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London. The musical played a limited engagement from May 2010 through June 26, 2010.

Patinkin and Patti Lupone performed their concert An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin on Broadway for a limited 63-performance run starting November 21, 2011, at the Barrymore Theatre, and which ended on January 13, 2012. This concert marks the first time the pair has performed together on Broadway since they appeared together in Evita.

He is currently a regular on the Showtime series Homeland which initially aired in 2011. For his work as Saul Berenson, Patinkin has been nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Explaining what he learned from the character, he stated that "The line between good and evil runs through each one of us."

Personal life

On June 15, 1980, Patinkin married actress and writer Kathryn Grody. They have two sons named Isaac and Gideon. Gideon joined his father onstage in Dress Casual in 2011. Patinkin has described himself as "Jewish with a dash of Buddhist" belief. On the Canadian radio program Q, Patinkin describes himself as a "JewBu" because of this mix of beliefs and "spiritual, but not religious."

Patinkin suffered from keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease, in the mid-1990s. This led to two corneal transplants, his right cornea in 1997 and his left in 1998. He also was diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer in 2004. He celebrated his first year of recovery in 2005 by doing a 265-mile charity bike ride with his son, Isaac - the Arava Institute Hazon Israel Ride: Cycling for Peace, Partnership & Environmental Protection.

Patinkin has been involved in a variety of Jewish causes and cultural activities. He sings in Yiddish, often in concert, and on his album Mamaloshen. He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, and Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations, by his mother, Doralee Patinkin Rubin.

In May 2012, Patinkin delivered the opening speech at the Annual Convention of the Israeli Left, where he recounted his experiences during a visit to the West Bank with members of the Breaking the Silence organization.

Patinkin contributed to the children's book Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again: A Musical Storybook, inspired by Christopher Reeve prior to Christopher and Dana Reeve's deaths. The award-winning book, published in 2005, benefits the Christopher Reeve Foundation and includes an audio CD with Patinkin singing and reading the story as well as Dana Reeve and Bernadette Peters singing.

On December 21, 2015, Patinkin was on the Charlie Rose program on PBS talking passionately about his recent trip to Greece to help refugees from war-torn Syria, his acting role on the television series Homeland, and that there has to be a better way to achieve peace in our societies.

Awards and nominations

Awards

• 1980: Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Evita
• 1987: CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special - Sunday in the Park with George
• 1995: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope

Nominations

• 1984: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy - Yentl
• 1984: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical - Sunday in the Park with George
• 1990: Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor - Alien Nation
• 1995: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Drama - Chicago Hope
• 1995: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope
• 1996: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - The Larry Sanders Show: "Eight"
• 1999: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series - Chicago Hope: "Curing Cancer"
• 2000: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical - The Wild Party
• 2003: DVD Exclusive Award for Best Original Song in a DVD, Premiere Movie - Run Ronnie Run: "How High the Mountain"
• 2013: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Homeland
• 2013: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Homeland
• 2014: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Homeland

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	The Big Fix	Pool Man
1979	French Postcards	Sayyid
1979	Last Embrace	First Commuter
1980	Night of the Juggler	Allesandro the Cabbie
1981	Ragtime	Tateh
1983	Yentl	Avigdor	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1983	Daniel	Paul Isaacson
1985	Maxie	Nick Cheyney
1986	Castle in the Sky	Louis	Voice (English dub)
1987	The Princess Bride	Inigo Montoya
1988	Alien Nation	Detective Samuel 'George' Francisco	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
1988	The House on Carroll Street	Ray Salwen
1990	Dick Tracy	88 Keys
1991	True Colors	John Palmeri
1991	Impromptu	Alfred de Musset
1991	The Doctor	Dr. Murray Kaplan
1993	The Music of Chance	Jim Nashe
1993	Life with Mikey	Irate Man
1994	Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	Brother Daniel
1998	Lulu on the Bridge	Philip Kleinman
1998	Men with Guns	Andrew
1999	The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland	Huxley
1999	Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA)	Mr. President's aide	Voice
2001	Piñero	Joseph Papp
2002	Run Ronnie Run	Himself
2003	Celebrity Train Layouts: Mandy Patinkin	Himself
2006	Choking Man	Rick
2006	Everyone's Hero	Stanley Irving	Voice
2010	4.3.2.1 ... The Countdown Begins	Jago L
2013	The Wind Rises	Hattori	Voice (English dub)
2014	Wish I Was Here	Gabe Bloom
2016	Ali and Nino	Duke Kipiani
2017	Smurfs: The Lost Village	Papa Smurf	Voice
2017	La Reina De España

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Charleston	Beaudine Croft	TV movie
1978	That Thing on ABC	Performer	TV movie
1978	Taxi	Alan	Episode: "Memories of Cab 804 (Part 2)"
1986	American Playhouse	Georges Seurat / George	Episode: "Sunday in the Park with George" CableAce Award for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Dramatic Special
1994-2000	Chicago Hope	Dr. Jeffrey Geiger	60 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Drama Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
1994	Picket Fences	Dr. Jeffrey Geiger	Episode: "Rebels with Causes"
1995	The Simpsons	Hugh Parkfield	Voice; Episode: "Lisa's Wedding"
1996	Broken Glass	Dr. Harry Hyman	TV movie
1997	The Hunchback	Quasimodo	Television movie Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1997	The Larry Sanders Show	Himself	Episode: "Eight" Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
1999	Strange Justice	Kenneth Duberstein	Television movie
2001	Touched by an Angel	Satan	Episode: "Netherlands"
2001	Boston Public	Isaac Rice	Episode: "Chapter Twenty-Two"
2003	Law & Order	Levi March	Episode: "Absentia"
2003-2004	Dead Like Me	Rube Sofer	29 episodes
2004	NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323	Al Cummings	Television movie
2005-2007	Criminal Minds	Jason Gideon	47 episodes
2009	Three Rivers	Victor, an ALS Patient	Episode: "The Luckiest Man"
2011-present	Homeland	Saul Berenson	60 episodes Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

Stage

Broadway Evita (1979) - Che (Tony Award, 1980) Sunday in the Park with George (1984) - Georges Seurat/George (Tony Award Nominee, 1984) Follies in Concert (1985, Lincoln Center) with Barbara Cook,Lee Remick,George Hearn etc. conducted by Paul Gemianiani Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual (1989) The Secret Garden (1991) - Archibald Craven Falsettos (1993) - Marvin (Replacement) Sunday in the Park with George (Tenth Anniversary Concert) (1994) - George Mandy Patinkin in Concert (1997) Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Mamaloshen (1998) The Wild Party (2000) - Burrs (Tony Award Nominee, 2000) Celebrating Sondheim An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin (2011)

Other theatre Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theater Festival) Henry IV, Part I The Winter's Tale The Knife Leave It to Beaver is Dead Trelawny of the Wells (1975) - Mr. Arthur Gower Hamlet (1975-76) - Fortinbras, Player King Rebel Woman The Shadow Box (1977) - Mark The Split and Savages Follies in Concert (1985) - Buddy Plummer The Tempest (2008) (Classic Stage Company) Compulsion (by Rinne Groff) (2010-2011) (Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and The Public Theater) - Sid Silver Paradise Found (2010) (Menier Chocolate Factory, London, UK) -Eunuch

Discography

• Evita (cast album, 1978)
• Sunday in the Park with George (cast album, 1984)
• South Pacific (London Studio Cast) (1986)
• Mandy Patinkin (1989)
• Dress Casual (1990)
• The Secret Garden (cast album, 1991)
• Experiment (1994)
• Oscar & Steve (1995)
• Man of La Mancha (with Plácido Domingo) (1996)
• Mamaloshen (1998)
• Myths and Hymns (cast album, 1999)
• The Wild Party (cast album, 2000)
• Kidults (2001)
• Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim (2002)

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