Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin, born August 19, 1956, in Brooklyn, New York, is an American actor and director. He is the son of actor, director, and writer Alan Arkin and his first wife, Jeremy Yaffe, and his brother Matthew is also an actor. Arkin attended Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. As a child, he sang with his parents in the children's music group the Baby Sitters, which also included Lee Hays and Doris Willens.

Arkin began his television career in 1975 with guest appearances on Happy Days and Barney Miller, and in 1977 starred as Lenny Markowitz in the series Busting Loose. He went on to appear in a wide range of television productions, including The Twilight Zone, A Year in the Life, and Picket Fences. From 1990 to 1995, he had a recurring role on Northern Exposure, playing a mercurial, barefooted chef named Adam, a part that earned him an Emmy nomination. He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope, which ran on CBS from 1994 to 2000 and for which he received four SAG Award nominations as part of the ensemble cast. He also appeared in two separate episodes of Law and Order, portraying a jewelry store owner in a 1992 episode and a district attorney in a 2005 episode. Additional television credits include Frasier, for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, as well as Boston Legal, Baby Bob, and Monk, on which he was one of three actors to portray the character Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck. From 2007 to 2009, he starred in the NBC drama Life as Ted Earley, and in 2009 he portrayed white separatist gang leader Ethan Zobelle in the second season of Sons of Anarchy. He also played Principal Ed Gibb on 8 Simple Rules between 2003 and 2005, appeared in a Season 7 episode of The Closer in 2011, and portrayed mob boss Theo Tonin on Justified. He served as a co-executive producer on the television series Get Shorty.

Arkin's directing work spans numerous acclaimed television series, including Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, The Riches, Dirt, Ally McBeal, Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Justified, and Masters of Sex. He directed the final episode of the second season of Masters of Sex in 2014 and the final two episodes of the second season of Fargo in 2015, in which he also appeared in a minor acting role. He directed three episodes of the Cold War drama The Americans in 2013. In 2002, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for the Showtime film My Louisiana Sky, a project for which he also received a DGA Award nomination.

His film work includes Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in 1998, Hitch in 2005, and A Serious Man in 2009, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, in which he played a divorce lawyer. In voice work, he portrayed Fixer in the radio dramatization of Star Wars, voiced Meriwether Lewis in Ken Burns's The Voyage of the Corps of Discovery for PBS in 1997, and contributed character voices to the Emmy-winning series The National Parks: America's Best Idea.

On Broadway, Arkin's career spanned from 1991 to 2005. He received a Theatre World Award in 1991 and a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor the same year for his work in I Hate Hamlet. He also appeared on Broadway in Guys and Dolls and starred in Brooklyn Boy, a play by Donald Margulies, having originated the role in the world premiere production at South Coast Repertory before bringing it to Broadway in 2005.