Celebrity Biographies
willie garson
He stole many scenes as Stanford Blatch, Carrie Bradshaw’s gay friend, in the series “Sex and the City.” Willie Garson passed away on September 21, 2021, at age 57, after receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer. “We all loved him and adored working with him. He was endlessly fun on screen and in real life,” says Cynthia Nixon (HBO’s Miranda). “Very sad news and a terribly sad loss for the family,” Kim Cattrall (Samantha) wrote on social media.
Born in Highland Park, New Jersey, on February 20, 1964, William Garson Paszamant came from a Jewish family. In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wesleyan University, followed by a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale Drama School.
He made his acting debut in the 1986 miniseries Portrait of a Murderer , and went on to appear in numerous hit series, including Cheers , Thirtysomething , and Twin Peaks . He also appeared in several feature films, such as A Trap in Time , where Willie Garson played Kenny, the protagonist’s assistant. Brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly recruited him for three of his gross comedies: What a Couple of Idiots , There’s Something About Mary , and Stakes for Love . He also landed supporting roles in The Rock and Being John Malkovich ., among other titles.
He played Stanford Blatch in Sex and the City between 1998 and 2004. The character of Willie Garson became one of the public’s favorites, which is why he gained importance throughout the series until he starred in his own plot line through an affair with Marcus Adente, a Broadway dancer. He reprized the role in the two film installments, Sex and the City. The Movie (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). In real life, he also became very close friends with Sarah Jessica Parker , star of the series.
He exploited his physical appearance very well, very close and ordinary. “Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt ,” Willie Garson explained in an interview. “There are people in the world who look like me. I think people feel that my characters could live next door to them.” Despite becoming popular for playing a homosexual, he was not in real life, although the details of his private life are unknown. It is known that he adopted his son, Nathan Garson, in 2009.
Interestingly, Willie Garson played Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, in three different productions, the feature film The Dallas Conspiracy (1992), and the series Through Time (1989), and MADtv (1995). In the last years of his career, he stood out as a friend and confidante of the protagonist in White-collar thief , and as the reclusive Steve Lomeli in the Supergirl series .