Tony Goldwyn

Born: 20th May 1960
Where: Los Angeles, California

Coming from a famous showbiz family, Tony is the grandson of legendary industry pioneer Samuel Goldwyn and son of the successful independent producer/distributor Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

His mother, Jennifer, was the daughter of noted playwright-screenwriter Sidney Howard and his brother John is president of production at Paramount.

After studying at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England, Tony made his film debut in 1986, in Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives.

But it was his turn as Patrick Swayze's 'best friend' Carl in the 1990 box-office smash Ghost that launched his feature career.

Some of his more notable roles have been as a presidential aide in The Pelican Brief; a husband who orders a hit on his wife in the black comedy Reckless; and Richard Nixon's beloved older brother, dying of tuberculosis, in Oliver Stone's Nixon.

He then had a featured role in the L.A. production of Tom Stoppard's award-winning The Real Thing, and earned an OBIE Award for his turn as a gay man living with his father in the Australian comedy The Sum of Us.

The following year Tony made his directorial debut with A Walk on the Moon, starring Diane Lane as a dissatisfied housewife who finds physical and emotional enlightenment with a blouse salesman (Viggo Mortensen) in 1969 upstate New York.