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

Charities

Tony Goldwyn supports the following charitable cause: Cancer.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]