Adam Arkin was born on August 19, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, and is known for being an award-winning television, film, and stage actor, as well as a director. His father, Alan Arkin, is also an actor, as well as a director and writer.
Adam Arkin has appeared in various television series such as Northern Exposure where he played Adam, an eccentric chef, a role he played for five years. He also played neurosurgeon Aaron Shutt in Chicago Hope, which was a role that shot him to fame. During his stint on the series, his father and his daughter, Molly, appeared as guest stars alongside him. He had numerous television appearances, which include The West Wing, Frasier , Boston Legal and 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. Arkin's film appearances include those in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Hitch in 2005. He starred in the comedy With Friends Like These in 1998, and worked on three films in 2000, namely Dropping Out, Hanging Up alongside Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton and Lisa Kudrow, and East of A. Arkin also appeared on several Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theatre productions, including his participation in the South Coast Repertory's Broadway production of Brooklyn Boy, by playwright Donald Margulies. He has also been nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Featured Play for his role in the Broadway production of I Hate Hamlet. In 2007, he was cast for a role on the new NBC series, Life, where he plays Ted Early, the former cellmate of Damian Lewis’ character Charlie Crews. Some of Adam Arkin’s directorial projects include episodes of the award-winning series Grey’s Anatomy, Boston Legal, The Riches, Ally McBeal and Dirt. Arkin is also a recipient of an Emmy Award, for his work on the Showtime television film My Louisiana Sky. He was also seen on two episodes of Law & Order, the series Monk, Commander in Chief in 2008 as Carl Brantley and in the action film Graduation.
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