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Tony Goldwyn

Tony Goldwyn

Birthday: 1960-05-20 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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 Law & 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 in the HBO miniseries From 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. He made his acting debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film Ghost (1990), which earned him a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star as Harold Nixon in the biographical film Nixon (1995), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and as Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998). He portrayed Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), which earned him a second nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the ABC legal/political drama Scandal (2012–2018) and directed a number of episodes for the series, for which he won a Peabody Award. He is the son of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and actress Jennifer Howard. His paternal grandparents were film producer and movie studio mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. His brother John Goldwyn is a film producer, a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of the series Dexter. His brother Peter is also a film producer and the current President of Samuel Goldwyn Films. His half-sister Liz Goldwyn is a filmmaker. His niece is writer/producer Emily Goldwyn (John's daughter - and her mother is actress Colleen Camp). He has been married to production designer Jane Musky since 1987 and they have two daughters: Anna, a screenwriter, and Tess, an actress.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2026
One Battle After Another

as    Virgil Throckmorton

2025
Ghost

as    Carl Bruner

2024
Ezra

as    Bruce

2023
Plane

as    Scarsdale

2021
The Hot Zone: Anthrax

as    Bruce Ivins

2021
but i'm here too

as    Him

2021
King Richard

as    Paul Cohen

2019
Chambers

as    Ben Lefevre

2019
The Hot Zone

as    Bruce Ivins

2019
Blue Sky Metropolis

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2018
All I Wish

as    Adam

2016
The Belko Experiment

as    Barry Norris

2014
Divergent

as    Andrew Prior

2014
Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs

as    Warren Jeffs

2012
Scandal

as    President Fitzgerald Grant

2011
The Mechanic

as    Dean Sanderson

2009
The Last House on the Left

as    John Collingwood

2005
The Godfather of Green Bay

as    Big Jake Norquist

2005
American Gun

as    Frank

2005
Ghosts Never Sleep

as    Jared Dolan

2005
The Sisters

as    Vincent Antonelli

2003
The Last Samurai

as    Col. Benjamin Bagley

2003
Ash Tuesday

as    Elliott

2002
Joshua

as    Joshua