Tony Goldwyn Biography

Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated Tarzan. He stars in the ABC drama Scandal, as Fitzgerald Grant III, President of the United States.

Early life

Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Jennifer Howard and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Goldwyn's paternal grandparents were mogul Samuel Goldwyn and actress Frances Howard, while his maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. Goldwyn attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (where he received his B.F.A), and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Personal life

Goldwyn has been married to production designer Jane Michelle Musky since 1987. The couple has two daughters.

Career

Goldwyn's best remembered role is most likely that of Carl Bruner, friend-turned-betrayer of Patrick Swayze's character Sam Wheat in Ghost. He is also well known for his turn on the comedy series, Designing Women in which he played a young interior designer named Kendall Dobbs who was HIV positive, and asked the women of Sugarbakers to design his funeral. In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11. He also voiced the title character from 1999 animated feature film, Tarzan, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and reprised the role in the video games Disney's Tarzan Untamed and Kingdom Hearts. He had a recurring role on the NBC-Universal drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Frank Goren, brother of lead character Robert Goren, played by Vincent D'Onofrio. Acting and directing duties for the first season of "Dexter" for Showtime (Brother John Goldwyn is Executive Producer).

As a stage actor, Goldwyn has appeared twice in Off-Broadway shows at Second Stage Theatre and on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre. At Second Stage he appeared in Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels (1992) alongside Kevin Bacon and Julie White. Most recently, in the summer of 2006 at Second Stage Theatre he starred opposite Kate Burton in another Rebeck play, The Water's Edge. Goldwyn played J.D. Sheldrake, the philandering business executive, in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth. The cast recording was released on June 23, 2010, with Goldwyn in three tracks.

Goldwyn played Captain von Trapp (opposite Laura Osnes as Maria) in a concert performance of The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall on April 25, 2012. The benefit included opera singer Stephanie Blythe as the Mother Abbess, Brooke Shields as Baroness Schraeder and Patrick Page as Max.

Filmography

Movie Title	Year	Role
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives	1986	Darren
Gaby: A True Story	1987	David
Dark Holiday	1989	Ken Horton
Ghost	1990	Carl Bruner
Kuffs	1991	Ted Bukovsky
Traces of Red	1992	Steve Frayn
The Pelican Brief	1993	Fletcher Coal
The Last Tattoo	1994	Capt. Michael Starwood
The Last Word	1995	Stan
Nixon	1995	Harold Nixon
Reckless	1995	Tom
The Substance of Fire	1996	Aaron Geldhart
Trouble on the Corner	1997	Jeff Stewart
Kiss the Girls	1997	Dr. William 'Will' Rudolph
The Lesser Evil	1998	Frank O'Brian
Tarzan	1999	Tarzan (voice)
Pocahontas: The Legend	1999	Sir Edwin Wingfield
The 6th Day	2000	Michael Drucker
An American Rhapsody	2001	Peter
Bounce	2001	Greg Janello
Abandon	2002	Dr. David Schaffer
Joshua	2002	Joshua
Kingdom Hearts (video games)	2002	Tarzan (voice)
The Last Samurai	2003	Colonel Bagley
Ash Tuesday	2003	Elliott
The Godfather of Green Bay	2005	Big Jake Norquist
American Gun	2005	Frank
Romance & Cigarettes	2005	Kitty's First Love
The Sisters	2005	Vincent Antonelli
Ghosts Never Sleep	2005	Jared Dolan
Poliwood (documentary)	2009	Himself
The Last House on the Left	2009	John
The Mechanic	2011	Dean
Divergent	2014	Andrew Prior

Television

TV Series	Year	Episode	Role
St. Elsewhere	1987	s05e17 - Schwarzwald	Henry
Matlock	1987	s01e24 - The Doctors	Dr. Mark Campion
CBS Summer Playhouse	1987	s01e09 - Mabel and Max	Paul
Designing Women	1987	s02e04 - Killing All the Right People	Kendall
LA Law	1988	s02e16 - Fetus Completus	Chris Arnett
Hunter	1988	s04e21 - Murder He Wrote	Byron
Favorite Son	1988	TV Mini Series
Murphy Brown	1988	s01e01 - Respect	Bobby Powell
Tales from the Crypt	1991	s03e04 - Abra Cadaver	Dr. Carl Fairbanks
L'Amérique en otage	1991	TV Movie	Jody Powell
The Last Mile	1992	TV Short
Taking the Heat	1993	TV Movie	Michael
Love Matters	1993	TV Movie	Geoffrey
Doomsday Gun	1994	TV Movie	Donald Duvall
Under Fire	1995	pilot	James Warren
A Woman of Independent Means	1995	TV Mini Series	Robert Steed
Truman	1995	TV Movie	Clark Clifford
The Boys Next Door	1996	TV Movie	Jack Palmer
The Song of the Lark	1997	TV Short	Fred Ottenburg
From the Earth to the Moon	1998	s01e06 - Mare Tranquilitatis s01e01 - Can We Do This?	Neil Armstrong
Frasier	2001	s09e05 - Love Stinks	Roger
American Masters (documentary)	2001	s16e01 - Goldwyn The Man and His Movies	Himself
The L Word	2004 - 2005	s02e09 - Late, Later, Latent s02e08 - Loyal	Burr Connor
Without A Trace	2004	s03e08 - Doppelgänger: Part 2 s02e19 - Doppelgänger	Greg Knowles / Rick Knowles
Dexter	2006	s01e08 - Shrink Wrap	Dr. Emmett Meridian
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	2007-2008	s07e22 - Frame s07e09 - Untethered s06e21 - Endgame s06e15 - Brother's Keeper	Frank Goren
The Good Wife	2009	s01e10 - Lifeguard	Judge Henry Baxter
Drop Dead Diva	2011	s03e06 - Closure	Alan Roberts
The Unknown	2012	s01e05 - Spare the Child	Bill Watson
Scandal	2012 - now	Season 1 & 2	Fitzgerald Grant III

Directorial

Film/TV Title	Year	Episode
A Walk on the Moon	1999	(+ producer)
Someone Like You	2001	-
Without A Trace	2004	s03e05 - American Goddess
The L Word	2004 - 2005	s02e09 - Late, Later, Latent s01e13 - Limb from Limb s01e07 - L'Ennui
Grey's Anatomy	2006	s01e03 - Winning a Battle, Losing the War s02e24 - Damage Case
The Last Kiss	2006	-
Law and Order	2006	s16e18 - Thinking Makes It So
Dexter	2006 - 2007	s02e03 - An Inconvenient Lie s02e01 - It's Alive! s01e08 - Shrink Wrap s01e06 - Return to Sender
Private Practice	2007	s01e02 - In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor...
Six Degrees	2007	s01e10 - Ray's Back
Kidnapped	2007	s01e12 - Acknowledgement
Alibi	2007	-
Dirty Sexy Money	2007	s1e10 - The Nutcracker
Conviction	2010	(+ producer)
Damages	2010	s03e03 - Flight's at 11:08
Justified	2010-2012	s03e10 - Guy Walks Into a Bar (2012) s02e09 - Brother's Keeper (2011) s01e11 - Veterans (2010)
Hawthorne	2011	s03e07 - To Tell the Truth
Scandal	2012	s02e20 - A Woman Scorned
The Divide	2014	pilot (+ producer)

Theater

Title Play	Year	Role
Tom Jones	1988
The Sum Of Us	1989
Chartaginians	1990
Picnic	1991
Spike Heels	1992	Andrew
Lady in the Dark	1994	Charley Johnson
Holiday	1995	Johnny Case
The Water's Edge	2006	Richard
Promises, Promises	2010	J.D. Sheldrake
24 Hour Plays Broadway	2010
Broadway Backwards 5	2010
The Sound of Music	2012	Captain von Trapp

Audiobook

Book Title	Author	Year
The Grifters	Jim Thompson	1991
Tenth Commandment	Lawrence Sanders	1992
Dead Irish (Dismas Hardy Series #1)	John Lescroart	2000
The Millionaires	Brad Meltzer	2005
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America	Erik Larson	2007
A Death in Vienna	Daniel Silva	2007
Kate Remembered	A. Scott Berg	2007
Thunderstruck	Erik Larson	2008

Soundtrack

Song Title	Year	Album	Notes
Wanting Things	2010	Promisses Promises
Christmas Day	2010	Promisses Promises	feat Ashley Amber
It's Our Little Secret	2010	Promisses Promises	feat Sean Hayes