Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1949-04-24 (Age: 77)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Peter Friedman
Biography
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.
Filmography (47)
King Hamlet
2025Marina
2025
The Variable
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert
2024
Carmen & Moony
2023
She Said
2022
Daddy's Girl
2022
Good Grief
2021
Sundowners
2019
Keep in Touch
2015
Side Effects
2013
Coming Up Roses
2011
Harvest
2011
