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Farther Along
2026
Peter Friedman
Acting
Born April 24, 1949New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.
Movies
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King Hamlet
2025
Marina
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Marina
2025
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The Variable
2024
7.8
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
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Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert
2024
0.0
Carmen & Moony
2023
7.2
She Said
2022
4.0
Daddy's Girl
2022
0.0
Good Grief
2021
0.0
Sundowners
2019
6.0
5 Doctors
2016
5.4
Keep in Touch
2015
6.6
Side Effects
2013
5.0
Coming Up Roses
2011
4.8
Harvest
2011
7.0
Love & Other Drugs
2010
6.7
The Messenger
2009
6.3
Spinning Into Butter
2009
5.4
Breaking Upwards
2009
7.5
Synecdoche, New York
2008
6.9
The Savages
2007
6.5
I'm Not There
2007
6.3
Unconscious
2006
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
5.3
Freedomland
2006
7.2
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
5.9
King of the Corner
2004
6.2
Paycheck
2003
7.0
Power and Beauty
2002
4.7
Two Against Time
2002
6.0
Someone Like You...
2001
5.7
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000
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Creating Ragtime
1998
5.7
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
5.7
I'm Not Rappaport
1996
6.2
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
7.6
The Heidi Chronicles
1995
7.0
Safe
1995
6.1
Blink
1993
6.3
Single White Female
1992
7.1
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
6.0
The Seventh Sign
1988
6.5
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
4.5
Piaf
1984
6.6
Daniel
1983
7.0
Prince of the City
1981
5.5
Christmas Evil
1980
8.0
The Rules of the Game
1975
Elderwood
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Elderwood
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Governors Island
TV Shows
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Stars in the House
8.3
Succession
8.1
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
6.7
The Affair
6.1
666 Park Avenue
6.8
Made in Jersey
8.1
Person of Interest
7.5
Damages
7.2
Heist
8.1
Ghost Whisperer
7.2
Without a Trace
10.0
Baby Bob
7.8
Brooklyn Bridge
7.3
Law & Order
7.3
Law & Order
7.3
Law & Order
7.5
Hothouse
6.8
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
7.4
Miami Vice
5.9
Rage of Angels
8.0
The Muppet Show
8.0
The Muppet Show
8.0
The Muppet Show
8.0
The Muppet Show
8.0
The Muppet Show
6.1
Great Performances
Masters of Doom
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