Anthony Howard ‘Tony’ Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He’s known for his roles as Carl Bruner in Ghost, President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC’s drama Scandal, district attorney Nicholas Baxter on\u00a0Law & Order, Gordon Gray in Oppenheimer, Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), Andrew Prior in Divergent and Insurgent, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, Michael Drucker in The 6th Day, Dr. William ‘Will’ Rudolph in Kiss the Girls, Neil Armstrong\u00a0in the\u00a0HBO\u00a0miniseries\u00a0From the Earth to the Moon, Harold Nixon in Nixon (1995), Fletcher Cole in The Pelican Brief, and the voice of Tarzan in the Disney animated Tarzan.<\/p>\n
He made his acting debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film\u00a0Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives\u00a0(1986), and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film\u00a0Ghost\u00a0(1990), which earned him a nomination for the\u00a0Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star as\u00a0Harold Nixon\u00a0in the biographical film\u00a0Nixon\u00a0(1995), which earned him a\u00a0Screen Actors Guild Award\u00a0nomination, and as\u00a0Neil Armstrong\u00a0in the\u00a0HBO\u00a0miniseries\u00a0From the Earth to the Moon\u00a0(1998).<\/p>\n
He portrayed Paul Cohen in\u00a0King Richard\u00a0(2021), which earned him a second nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the\u00a0ABC\u00a0legal\/political drama\u00a0Scandal\u00a0(2012\u20132018) and directed a number of episodes for the series, for which he won a\u00a0Peabody Award.<\/p>\n
He is the son of film producer\u00a0Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and\u00a0actress\u00a0Jennifer Howard. His paternal grandparents were film producer and movie studio mogul\u00a0Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant from\u00a0Warsaw, and actress\u00a0Frances Howard, who was originally from\u00a0Nebraska.\u00a0His maternal grandparents were playwright\u00a0Sidney Howard\u00a0and actress\u00a0Clare Eames. His brother John Goldwyn is a film producer, a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of\u00a0the series Dexter. His brother Peter is also a film producer and the current President of\u00a0Samuel Goldwyn Films.\u00a0His half-sister Liz Goldwyn is a filmmaker. His niece is writer\/producer Emily Goldwyn (John’s daughter – and her mother is actress Colleen Camp).<\/p>\n
He has been married to production designer Jane Musky since 1987 and they have two daughters: Anna, a screenwriter, and Tess, an actress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anthony Howard ‘Tony’ Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He’s known for his roles as Carl Bruner in Ghost, President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC’s drama Scandal, district attorney Nicholas Baxter on\u00a0Law & Order, Gordon Gray in Oppenheimer, Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), Andrew Prior in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-26668","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n