We know the actors who became presidents and governors. There are also politicians who acted in films. Actor Oliver Platt in his family tree had many famous political and public figures, and he himself had to go into politics.
But one incident turned his whole life upside down. Once his family came to Washington and went to a Morgan Freeman concert at the Kennedy Center. Oliver was struck by how the actor kept in tension the entire huge hall. He stood on the stage completely alone, and this did not stop him from managing the audience and transmitting to them what he wanted to convey. Since then, Platt firmly decided that he would become the same actor as Freeman.
Biography
Oliver Platt was born in a Canadian family in Windsor in an interesting family: my mother worked as a social worker in Islamabad, and my father was a diplomat and traveled to different countries. Therefore, in childhood, the future actor visited Pakistan, Zambia, the Philippines and other countries. The Platts had three children, and such a large family often moved from place to place.
Plattov’s pedigree is really very rich: in his family there were secular lionesses, lawyers, lawyers, federal judges. They were friends with politicians and presidents, and his great-grandfather on the father's side almost became president instead of Theodore Roosevelt. And he is a distant relative of Princess Diana, but he practically did not communicate with her.
Due to the fact that his work father often had to move, Oliver had almost no friends in his childhood, and he speaks of himself as "a man without roots." He does not have any warm childhood memories associated with his favorite corner in the garden or with a tree house. While he was in school, his parents moved twelve times, and therefore his school memories are also chaotic.
When they moved to the United States, Platt graduated from an elite boarding school called the Colorado Rockies School in Carbondale, Colorado. Then he entered Tufts University to get an acting education.
After university, Oliver tried his hand at the theatrical stage: he worked in the Boston theater, where he had many roles and where he gained vast experience in playing and interacting with the audience from the stage. He played on Broadway, participated in Shakespeare festivals, served in the Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theater Club and other Melpomene houses.
It was thanks to the theater that Platt got into the cinema: he met at a party Bill Murray, who praised his show and recommended the actor to director Jonathan Demme, who immediately invited him to shoot in the film "Married to the Mafia" (1988).
Movie career
Platt agreed to this offer only because it was something new - something that he had not done before. The first experience was successful, and in the same year he starred in the film "Business Woman" (1998) and others. Since then, almost every year a new role has appeared in his portfolio, and still he chose such images so as not to get stuck in one role.
The best films in Platt's filmography are: Bicentennial Man (1999), Benny and June (1993), Time to Kill (1996), Honest Courtesan (1998), Simon Beach (1998). Best TV shows: Kill Boredom (2009-2011), Capital Letter P (2012-2013), Chicago Medics (2015-
.), Fargo (2014-), "American Family" (2009-
)
In 1999, Platt played a wealthy and eccentric crocodile lover in the movie Lake Placid: Lake of Fear. His partners on the set were Bill Pullman and the Bridget Foundation. The actor portrayed his hero as a strange and funny person who has a specific sense of humor and an irresistible charm, with which he sometimes blocked the rest of the characters in the picture.
When the television series were released, Oliver got a role in the project "Deadline" directed by Dick Wolfe. This is a series about the life of journalists in New York. Platt here played the role of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Benton. The strong acting team, which included celebrities Bebe Neuwirth and Hope Davis, could not pull out the unsuccessful script, and the series was closed.
After that, Platt did not want to star in the television series until he read the script for the West Wing series. He took part in this project, and did not lose - for his role in it, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role of White House Advisor to the White House, Oliver Babish.
After the actor played in the television series Doctor Huff, he was nominated for two awards: Emmy and Golden Globe.
And since then, the directors began talking about Platt as a universal actor who can play both the homeless, and the workaholic, and the lover of women, and the woman-hater, and the drug addict. He was called unpredictable, multifaceted and unique. The actor was not just recognizable - he became famous.
Success and fame came to Platt precisely with his roles in the cinema, and he gradually left the theater, although sometimes he still appeared on Broadway. He was also the producer of the movie "Big Night" (1996) and voiced several films.
