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Tony Goldwyn
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Director, Actor
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May 20, 1960 in Los Angeles, CA
Biography:The grandson of movie mogul "Samuel Goldwyn", actor "Tony Goldwyn" favored his grandmother's side of the family (she was film actress "Frances Howard") by pursuing an acting rather than an executive career. Goldwyn's first major film was 1987's "Gaby: A True Story", in which he was eighth-billed. His breakthrough feature was 1990's "Ghost", in which he played Carl, the "lying snake" who sets up the murder of his best friend ("Patrick Swayze") and then callously moves in on the dead man's grieving girlfriend ("Demi Moore"). A master at playing charming-but-shallow yuppies, Goldwyn went on to appear in films ranging from "The Pelican Brief" (1994) to "Nixon" (1995) to the thriller "Kiss the Girls" (1997). In 1998, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong in the made-for-TV docudrama series "From the Earth to the Moon"; the following year he made his directorial debut with the similarly-titled "A Walk on... Full Biography
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Director Tony Goldwyn on the set of "The Last Kiss"
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Tony Goldwyn at the The Last Samurai premiere in Westwood on December 01, 2003
Tony Goldwyn at the The Last Samurai premiere in Westwood on December 01, 2003
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