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Oliver Platt

Age: 49
Height: 6' 3 1/2"

Birth Place: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Born: Jan. 12th, 1960

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Oliver Platt's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Huff	Russell Tupper
Deadline	Wallace Benton
Queens Supreme	Judge Jack Mo&hellip
The Bronx is Burning	George Steinb&hellip

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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:

His father, Nicholas Platt, is an ex ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, & the Phillipines.
Three children: Lily (b. 1995), George (b. 1997), and Claire (b. 1999).
In the 1950s, his great-grandmother Cynthia Burke Roche resided at the famous Elm Court mansion in Newport, Rhode Island.
He is also the paternal grandson of American architect Geoffrey Platt (by whom he has remote Dutch American ancestry) and wife Helen Choate.
Brother of Adam Platt, New York Magazine restaurant critic.
He is the son of Nicholas Platt (born October 3, 1936, New York, NY), a career American diplomat, and wife Sheila Maynard.
Has an older brother, Adam Platt and a younger brother, Nicholas Platt Jr.
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).