Tony Goldwyn
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Los Angeles, California, USA
The grandson of movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, actor Tony Goldwyn favored his grandmother's side of the family (she was film actress Frances Howard) by pursuing an acting rather than an executive career. Goldwyn's first major film was 1987's Gaby: A True Story, in which he was eighth-billed. His breakthrough feature was 1990's Ghost, in which he played Carl, the "lying snake" who sets up the murder of his best friend (Patrick Swayze) and then callously moves in on the dead man's grieving girlfriend (Demi Moore). A master at playing charming-but-shallow yuppies, Goldwyn went on to appear in films ranging from The Pelican Brief (1994) to Nixon (1995) to the thriller Kiss the Girls (1997). In 1998, Goldwyn played astronaut Neil Armstrong in the made-for-TV docudrama series From the Earth to the Moon; the following year he made his directorial debut with the similarly-titled A Walk on the Moon. Starring Diane Lane as a dissatisfied housewife who finds physical and emotional enlightenment with a blouse salesman (Viggo Mortensen) in 1969 upstate New York, the film enjoyed an overwhelmingly favorable reception. Also in 1999, Goldwyn earned additional kudos for voicing the title character of Disney's animated Tarzan. Audiences were able to see more of the actor in 2000, when he appeared in Don Roos' romantic drama Bounce and in the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi thriller The 6th Day. When his sophomore effort as a director, the romantic comedy Someone Like You..., failed to generate much interest, Goldwyn would turn toward television to helm episodes of The L Word, Without a Trace, Grey's Anatomy, and Law & Order (many of which he also appeared in as an actor) while racking up an impressive list of credits in such efforts as the Christian-themed drama Joshua, The Last Samurai, and as a haunted writer whose attempt to clean the skeletons out of the family closet lead to tragedy in Ghosts Never Sleep. A 2005 performance as a cop whose life is profoundly affected by a firearm in American Gun found Goldwyn as strong as ever in front of the camera, and the following year it was time once again to take the reins for the romantic comedy drama re-make The Last Kiss; a contemporary tale of love and anxiety starring Scrubs and Garden State actor Zach Braff. .
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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18% | All I Wish (A Little Something for Your Birthday) |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Back to Life: The Torin Yater-Wallace Story |
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— | 2018 |
36% | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House |
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$0.8M | 2017 |
54% | The Belko Experiment |
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$10.2M | 2017 |
28% | Insurgent |
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$114.2M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs |
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— | 2014 |
41% | Divergent |
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$129.6M | 2014 |
53% | The Mechanic |
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$29.2M | 2011 |
68% | Conviction |
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$6.8M | 2010 |
43% | The Last House on the Left |
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$32.8M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Pocahontas: The Legend |
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— | 2008 |
46% | The Last Kiss |
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$11.6M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Ghosts Never Sleep |
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— | 2006 |
30% | The Sisters |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Godfather of Green Bay |
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— | 2006 |
39% | American Gun |
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— | 2006 |
66% | The Last Samurai |
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$111M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Beyond the Ashes |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Ash Tuesday |
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— | 2003 |
16% | Abandon |
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$10.7M | 2002 |
22% | Joshua |
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— | 2002 |
56% | An American Rhapsody |
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— | 2001 |
42% | Someone Like You |
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$26.8M | 2001 |
52% | Bounce |
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— | 2000 |
40% | The 6th Day |
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$33.9M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Song of the Lark |
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— | 2000 |
89% | Tarzan |
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— | 1999 |
72% | A Walk on the Moon |
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— | 1999 |
60% | The Lesser Evil |
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— | 1998 |
31% | Kiss The Girls |
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— | 1997 |
60% | The Substance of Fire |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Boys Next Door |
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— | 1996 |
75% | Nixon |
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— | 1995 |
14% | Reckless |
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— | 1995 |
88% | Truman |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | The Last Word |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | A Woman of Independent Means |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Doomsday Gun |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | The Last Tattoo |
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— | 1994 |
53% | The Pelican Brief |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Taking The Heat |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Love Matters |
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— | 1993 |
29% | Traces of Red |
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— | 1992 |
28% | Kuffs |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Iran: Days of Crisis |
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— | 1991 |
74% | Ghost |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Dark Holiday |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Gaby: A True Story |
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— | 1987 |
48% | Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives |
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— | 1986 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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88% |
Lovecraft Country
2020
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42% |
Chambers
2019
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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93% |
Scandal
2012-2018
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No Score Yet |
Today
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010-2018
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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92% |
The Divide
2014
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97% |
Justified
2010-2015
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72% |
Drop Dead Diva
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
Hawthorne
2009-2011
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91% |
Damages
2007-2012
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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68% |
Dirty Sexy Money
2007-2009
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67% |
Kidnapped
2006-2007
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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51% |
Private Practice
2007-2013
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42% |
Six Degrees
2006-2007
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71% |
Dexter
2006-2013
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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84% |
Grey's Anatomy
2005
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57% |
The L Word
2004-2009
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No Score Yet |
Without a Trace
2002-2009
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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No Score Yet |
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
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82% |
Tales from the Crypt
1989-1996
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No Score Yet |
Hunter
1984-1991
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No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown
1988-2019
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No Score Yet |
Designing Women
1986-1993
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No Score Yet |
Matlock
1986-1995
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No Score Yet |
The Unknown
2012
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Quotes from Tony Goldwyn's Characters
Kerchak: | Everyone, we will avoid the strangers. Do not let them seek you and do not seek them out. |
Tarzan: | They mean us no harm. |
Kerchak: | Tarzan, I don't know them. |
Tarzan: | But I do. I spent time with them. |
Kerchak: | You may be willing to risk our family, but I'm not. |
Tarzan: | Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?! |
Tarzan: | Why are you threatened by anyone different than you? |
Kerchak: | Protect this family, and stay away from them! |
Clayton: | I'm so sorry about the rude welcome, oh boy, but I couldn't have you making a scene when we put your furry friends in their cages. |
Tarzan: | Why? |
Clayton: | Why? For three hundred pounds sterling ahead. Actually, I have you to thank, dear boy. Couldn't have done it without you. |
Tarzan: | *to kerchak* why are you threatened by anyone different than you? |
Tarzan: | *to Kerchak* Why are you threatened by anyone different than you? |
Tarzan: | No matter where I go, you will always be my mother. |
Kala: | And you will always be in my heart. |
Darren: | We're going to scare him. |
Lizbeth: | We're going to scare him? |
Darren: | That's right, just drive towards him. He'll move. Nobody wants to die. |
Lizbeth: | Well, that's a freaking fact. Least of all...US! |
Lizbeth: | Well, that's a freaking fact. Least of all, us! |
Darren: | Will you just drive? He'll get out of our way. |
Lizbeth: | (she drives up to Jason and stops and Jason doesn't move) - Yeah. That really scared the sh*t out of him. |
Dean Sanderson: | I'm going to put a price on your head so big, that when you look in the mirror your reflection's gonna want to shoot you in the face. |