Oliver Platt's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Big C Paul Huff Russell Tup… Deadline Wallace Ben… The Bronx is Burning George Stei… Queens Supreme Judge Jack …

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Letters to Juliet 2010 - Love and Other Drugs 2010 - Please Give 2009 - 2012 2009 - Year One 2008 - Frost/Nixon 2007 - The Ten 2007 - Martian Child 2005 - Casanova 2005 - The Ice Harvest 2004 - Kinsey 2003 - Pieces of April 2003 - Hope Springs 2002 - Liberty stands still 2002 - ZigZag 2001 - Don't Say A Word 2000 - Gun Shy 2000 - Ready to Rumble 1999 - Lake Placid 1999 - Three to Tango 1999 - Bicentennial Man 1998 - Dr. Dolittle 1998 - The Impostors 1998 - Simon Birch 1998 - Bulworth 1998 - Dangerous Beauty 1996 - A Time to Kill 1996 - Executive Decision 1995 - Funny Bones 1993 - The Three Musketeers 1993 - Indecent Proposal 1993 - Benny & Joon 1993 - The Temp 1992 - Beethoven 1992 - Diggstown 1990 - Postcards from the Edge 1990 - Flatliners 1988 - Working Girl 1988 - Married to the Mob 1988 - Crusoe

BIOGRAPHY:

The son of a career diplomat, he spent his childhood in Washington DC, Asia, and the middle east. Oliver graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Drama in 1983 from Tufts University. He then trained at Shakespeare & Co. with Kristine Linklater.


TRIVIA:

• Was friends with "Huff" co-star Hank Azaria at Tufts University.
• In the 1950s, his great-grandmother Cynthia Burke Roche resided at the famous Elm Court mansion in Newport, Rhode Island.
• Since Diana Spencer was the great-granddaughter of the 3rd Baron Fermoy and Platt was his great-great-grandson, this makes him a second-cousin, once-removed, of 'Princess Diana' (qv), Princess of Wales. By extension, he is the third cousin of 'Prince William Windsor' (qv).
• 'David E. Kelley (I)' (qv) originally wanted him to play the role of Bobby Donnell on the TV show _"The Practice" (1997)_ (qv).
• High school graduate from the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado (near Aspen). The school's main curriculum is based on the "Outward Bound" education program, which teaches wilderness survival and expedition courses.
• His mother, Sheila Maynard, was the daughter of Eileen Burden Maynard Robins (October 15, 1910 - March 24, 1970) and a granddaughter of the Hon. Cynthia Burke-Roche (October 4, 1884 - August 12, 1966), who married (1) Arthur Scott Burden (August 11, 1879 - June 15, 1921) in 1906, and (2) Guy Fairfax Cary Sr. (November 14, 1879 - August 27, 1950) in 1922. Cynthia was the sister of Edmund Maurice Burke-Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy in the Peerage of Ireland (of Irish and English extraction and son of the American heiress Frances Ellen Work), who was the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.
• His father, Nicholas Platt, is an ex ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, & the Phillipines.
• Was a Boston Red Sox fan, but is now a New York Mets fan because his son likes the team.