Anthony (Tony) Howard Goldwyn - American actor, director, screenwriter and producer. The greatest fame was brought to him by the work in the film "The Ghost", where he played the role of Karl Bryuner - the main negative character of the picture. His partner in the film was the wonderful actor Patrick Swayze. For this role, Goldwyn was nominated for the Saturn Award. He received another nomination for this award after working in the series "Scandal".
Goldwyn has more than sixty roles in films and TV shows. He also directed twenty films, including Anatomy of Passion, Without a Trace, Dexter, Contraction, Justice, Scandal, Law and Order, Walking on the Moon.
early years
Tony's biography began in the spring of 1960 in the United States. He was born in a creative family. His father is the famous producer Samuel Goldwin Jr., and his mother is actress Jennifer Howard. Parents of father and mother were also directly related to art and cinema. The paternal grandmother is actress Francis Howard, and the paternal grandfather is producer Samuel Goldwin (real name Shmul Gelbfish), who has accounted for about one hundred and forty films. Maternal grandmother is actress Claire Eames, and grandfather is renowned writer and playwright Sidney Howard (Howard), Pulitzer Prize winner and Oscar for the script he wrote for Gone With the Wind.
From an early age, Tony was immersed in the atmosphere of art, no one doubted that he would follow in the footsteps of famous relatives and devote his life to creativity.
After graduating from high school, the boy enrolled at Hamilton College, then at Brendyce University, and later studied at the Academy of Dramatic Art and Music in London.
Film career
After receiving professional education, Tony decided to try his hand at cinema. He played his first roles in television series and films with a fairly high rating. These were the paintings: St. Elsver, The Hunter, Matlock, The Law of Los Angeles, Friday the 13th - Part 6: Jason is Alive!, Gaby, a True Story, Tales from the Crypt ", " Murphy Brown."
World fame came to Goldwin after the release of the mystical melodrama "Ghost", where Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg became his shooting partners. Goldwin got the role of the negative character Karl Bruner. According to the plot of the picture, he is a friend and business partner of the protagonist. To hide his financial fraud, as well as to gain the favor of Molly (the girls of the protagonist Sam), he hires a robber to make short work of Sam. The main character dies, but does not go into another world, but becomes a ghost to help his beloved avoid danger, and finds a real killer.
The film was released in 1990 and collected a record box office. The work of the actors and the director was highly appreciated not only by the audience, but also by film critics. The film was nominated for an Oscar five times and received a gold statuette in the categories: "Best Screenplay", "Best Supporting Actress" (Whoopi Goldberg). He has also been awarded the Golden Globe, Saturn and BAFTA Prizes.
Almost simultaneously with the filming of the movie, Tony began to try himself in directing. First, he became one of the directors of the series "Law and Order", and then in 1999 he shot his own picture "Walking on the Moon." Although the box office film actually failed, the directorial work of Goldwyn was awarded a special prize by the National Council of Film Critics of the United States. Later, Goldwin as a director participated in the filming of such films as: "Flirt with the beast", "Without a trace", "Sex in another city", "Anatomy of passion", "Kidnapped", "Dexter" and others.
