Fisher Stevens

Fisher Stevens
Stevens at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival
Born	Steven Fisher November 27, 1963 (1963-11-27) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981 – present

Fisher Stevens (born November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director and producer. His most recent successes include the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film The Cove and 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Crazy Love. As an actor, he is well known for his portrayals of Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Seamus O'Neill on Key West, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers, Iggy in Super Mario Brothers, Hawk Ganz in The Flamingo Kid, and wearing blackface for Ben Jahrvi in Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2. His television credits include Frasier, Friends, Law & Order, Key West, and Lost. He recently appeared on two episodes of the TV show Numb3rs. Fisher also has a distinguished Broadway and off-Broadway career spanning nearly 3 decades. He played Jigger Craigin in the 1994 Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. He had an early success in the 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy playing David, the adopted son of the gay protagonist played by the show's writer Harvey Fierstein, and the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he succeeded Matthew Broderick in starring role of Eugene. Throughout his career, he has acted in and directed more than 50 stage productions. In 2010, Fisher co-founded a new media and documentary film company, Insurgent Media, with Andrew S. Karsch and Erik H. Gordon.

Personal life

Stevens was born Steven Fisher in Chicago, Illinois. He co-founded Naked Angels Theater Company with longtime friends Rob Morrow, Nicole Burdette, Pippin Parker, Charle Landry, Nancy Travis, and Ned Eisenberg in 1986. He also co-founded a film production company called GreeneStreet Films, located in Tribeca, New York City in 1996. Stevens performed as Edgar Allan Poe on Lou Reed's album The Raven in 2003. He is also an accomplished harmonica player.

In June 2010, he began directing John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown (originally called Klass Klown). It was Fisher's major theatrical directing debut. Stevens helped his old colleague (they had first appeared in a Public Theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream some 20 years before) develop the show and eventually it went all the way to Broadway, where it opened on March 2011 and enjoyed a continued run through July 2011.

Stevens at the Academy Awards, 1990

In 2010, Stevens won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for co-producing The Cove.

Filmography

Movies

• The Burning (1981)
• Baby It's You (1983)
• The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
• The Flamingo Kid (1984)
• My Science Project (1985)
• Short Circuit (1986)
• The Boss's Wife (1986)
• Short Circuit 2 (1988)
• Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
• Point of View (1990)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• The Marrying Man (1991)
• Mystery Date (1991)
• Lift (1992)
• Bob Roberts (1992)
• Hero (1992)
• When the Party’s Over (1993)
• Super Mario Bros (1993)
• Nina Takes a Lover (1994)
• Only You (1994)
• Cold Fever (1995)
• Hackers (1995)
• The Pompatus of Love (1996)
• O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (1997)
• The Taxman (1999)
• The Tic Code (1999)
• Sam the Man (2000)
• 3 A.M. (2001)
• Prison Song (2001)
• Piñero (2001)
• Undisputed (2002)
• Kill the Poor (2003)
• Uptown Girls (2003)
• Anything Else (2003)
• Easy Six (2003)
• Reply (2003)
• On the Couch (2004)
• Factotum (2005)
• Undiscovered (2005)
• Slow Burn (2005)
• Kettle of Fish (2006)
• Red Angel (2007)
• Awake (2007)
• Fake (2010)
• Rio Sex Comedy as Fish (2010)
• Rising Stars (2010)
• The Experiment (2010)
• Henry's Crime (2010)
• One for the Money as Morty Beyers(2011)

TV Movies

• The Right To Remain Silent (1996)
• Jenifer (2001)
• Is It College Yet? (2002)
• The Lives They Lived (2003)
• The Green Teem (2009)

Television

• One Life To Live (Early 1980s)
• Ryan's Hope (1983)
• CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984, 1 Episode)
• Tall Tales & Legends (1986, 1 Episode)
• Columbo "Murder, Smoke and Shadows" (1989, 1 Episode)
• The Young Riders (1990, 1 Episode)
• The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1991, 1 Episode)
• Key West (1993, 13 Episodes)
• Friends (1995)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1995, 1 Episode)
• Law & Order (1995, 1 Episode)
• Early Edition (1996–2000, 48 Episodes)
• The Hunger (2000, 1 Episode)
• Frasier (2001, 1 Episode)
• 100 Centre Street (2001, 1 Episode)
• The Moth (2002, 1 Episode)
• Hack (2002, 1 Episode)
• Hope & Faith (2004, 1 Episode)
• Dr. Vegas (2004, 1 Episode)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2004, 2007, 2 Episodes)
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2008, 1 Episode)
• Lost (2008, 2010, 5 Episodes)
• Medium (2009, 1 Episode)
• Numb3rs (2009, 2 Episodes)
• Ugly Betty (2010, 1 Episode)
• The Mentalist (2010, 1 Episode)
• Californication (2011)
• "Damages" (2011)
• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2012, 1 Episode)

Directed

• Call of the Wylie (1995)
• Phinehas (1996)
• Early Edition (1998–1999, 2 Episodes)
• Just a Kiss (2002) which was nominated for the Open Palm Award for outstanding directorial debut
• Crazy Love (2007) co-directed with Dan Klores
• John Leguizamo - Ghetto Klown (2010-11) Opened on Broadway, March 2011.

Produced

• Sam the Man (2000)
• The Château (2001)
• Piñero (2001)
• Swimfan (2002)
• Uptown Girls (2003)
• Yes (2004)
• Slow Burn (2005)
• A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
• Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)
• Wedding Daze (2006)
• Crazy Love (2007)
• Meet Bill (2007)
• Feast of Love (2007)
• Awake (2007)
• The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
• The Grean Teem (2009)
• Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
• Tenderness (2009)
• The Cove (2009)
• Blank City (2011)
• Hollywood Renegade (2011) (In Production)
• Bad Trip (2011) (In Production)
• Mission Blue: The Sylvia Earle Project (2011) (In Production)
• The Ginger Baker Project (2011) (In Production)

Written work

• Sam the Man (2000, Story)
• The Grean Teem (2009, Story)
• The Highest Tide (2009, Screenplay)

External links

• Fisher Stevens at the Internet Movie Database