Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner’s 1987 film The Princess Bride. His other film credits include Miloš Forman’s Ragtime, Barbra Streisand’s Yentl, Alien Nation, and Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy. In 1994, he took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS’s Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award.
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin is an American actor and singer known for his work on the stage and screen. He is best known for playing Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner’s 1987 film The Princess Bride. His other film credits include Miloš Forman’s Ragtime, Barbra Streisand’s Yentl, Alien Nation, and Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy. He has appeared in major roles in television series such as Chicago Hope, Dead Like Me, Criminal Minds, and as Saul Berenson in the Showtime series Homeland. In 1995, he guest-starred in the episode of The Simpsons in Lisa’s Wedding as Hugh Park, the future groom of Lisa’s future husband Hugh Park. He won a Tony Award for his role in Evita, and has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the U.S. He also released two solo albums, titled Mandy Patink in and Dress Casual. In 1994, he took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS’s Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award. He left the show during the second season because he was unhappy spending so much time away from his wife and children.
Since 2000, he has performed as a singer, releasing three more albums, including Yiddish, a musical version of Mamalos, sung entirely by him. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1952, to Doris \”Doralee\”, a homemaker, and Lester PatinkIn, who operated two large Chicago-area metal factories, the People’s Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of America. He attended South Shore High School, Harvard St. George School, and Kenwood High School, and graduated in 1970. He went on to attend the University of Kansas and the Juilliard School. At Juiliard, he was a classmate of Kelsey Grammer, who played Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers in the early 1980s. He currently lives in New York City with his wife, Laura, a New York-based actress, and their two children, Laura and Mark, who is an author and nationally syndicated columnist for The Providence Journal. The couple have a son, Mark, and a daughter, Laura Patin, who lives in Los Angeles.
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