Celebrity Biographies
Oliver Platt
He has never become a star, but he has racked up brilliant supporting appearances on the big screen, and his face is quite familiar to theater regulars and viewers. Oliver Platt has set out to play the most different roles from each other that he can find.
Although he was born in Ontario (Canada), Oliver James Platt is the son of American parents, and in fact the family moved to Washington shortly after he was born. His mother worked in a clinic and his father was a diplomat. Apparently, Platt is distantly related to the legendary Diana of Wales.
He has recalled in an interview that he discovered his vocation for acting when his parents took him to see a play in which he was dazzled by the work of one of the actors, who would become very famous over time. It was a very young Morgan Freeman .
He studied drama at Tufts University, where he became close friends with actor Hank Azaria , and they would have been inseparable ever since. On campus he shot some videos shot by students, and ended up joining an amateur company, with which he acquired many boards.
After taking part in series such as The Equalizer and Miami Vice , he made it quite clear that he had the talent to function naturally in front of the cameras. She had no shortage of supporting roles in such titles as Married to All , Women’s Arms , The Comedians (1995) , Bullworth , Deadly Line and An Indecent Proposal . He also carried out an intense activity on the theater stages.
Platt married Camila Campbell in 1992, with whom he had three children, one of whom was sponsored by Azaria. Since he became a father, he has practically left the theater, because it would require him to be too far away from his family, and he concentrates on cinema and television. On set, he always carries an open plane ticket with him, so he can return with his own whenever he gets the chance.
He has had a prolific career in film. It was Porthos, in The Three Musketeers (1993), the eccentric crocodile enthusiast Hector, in Jaws , and the doctor who helped Robin Williams , in The Bicentennial Man .
On television he played his first starring role on the series Deadline , where he was a Pulitzer-winning columnist. Later he would also intervene in several episodes of The West Wing of the White House , as counselor Oliver Babish.
He is governed by the maxim that each new role he chooses has to be different from the previous ones. That explains the wide diversity of his career, which includes roles as disparate as the hapless businessman who ends up embroiled in a robbery in The Ice Harvest , the elusive 2012 White House chief of staff , or the merchant Paprizzio in Casanova , who competes with the protagonist for the love of Sienna Miller ‘s character Francesca . In his career, his intense portrayal of the battle-hardened journalist Bob Zelnick, adviser to the protagonist, in The Challenge stands out in particular. Frost vs. Nixon .
After playing Jake Gyllenhaal ‘s boss and mentor in Love and Other Drugs , Platt plays a supporting role in X-Men: First Class , and stars in the series The Big C , with Laura Linney .