Anthony Edwards (actor)
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Anthony Edwards | |
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Born | Anthony Charles Edwards July 19, 1962 |
Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Years active | 1973–present |
Spouse |
Jeanine Lobell (m. 1994) |
Children | 4 |
Anthony Charles Edwards[1] (born July 19, 1962) is an American actor and director.[2] He is best known for his role as Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight seasons of ER, for which he received a Golden Globe award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards. Additionally, he has appeared in various movies and television shows, including Top Gun, Zodiac, Miracle Mile, Revenge of the Nerds, Planes, and Northern Exposure.
Early life
Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Erika Kem (née Weber), an artist/landscape painter, and Peter Edwards, an architect.[3][4] He has two older sisters, Heidi and Ann-Marie, and two older brothers, Peter and Jeffrey. Edwards was encouraged by his parents to attend college before pursuing his interest in acting. He received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in England and studied theatre at University of Southern California[citation needed] but by the age of nineteen was being offered enough acting work to enable him to leave college.
Career
Edwards' early work included a co-starring role in the TV series It Takes Two with Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin as his parents and Helen Hunt as his sister. He made a cameo in the hit 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High as "Stoner Bud." In 1984, he starred in the hit comedy film Revenge of the Nerds playing the main role of Gilbert Lowe, a sensitive and well meaning nerd, Lewis' (played by Robert Carradine) best friend and later president of the tri-lambs. He reprised the role of Gilbert for a few brief scenes in the sequel Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), with his character unable to join the rest of the nerds because of a broken leg.
It was Edwards' role as LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw alongside Tom Cruise in the 1986 film Top Gun that brought his first widespread public acknowledgement. His character, who died in an aviation accident, was among the most prominent and popular in the film. He appeared as a terminally ill patient in Hawks (1988) alongside Timothy Dalton, another role which brought him worldwide fame. He starred in the Cold War era comedy Gotcha! as a college student who gets wrapped up in spy antics. He starred in the 1990 movie Downtown with Penelope Ann Miller and Forest Whitaker. He also played widowed veterinarian Chase Matthews, father of Edward Furlong's character in the horror film, Pet Sematary Two (1992), a sequel to the film Pet Sematary in 1989. In 1992 and 1993 he played Mike Monroe in ten episodes of Northern Exposure.
Edwards' best known role is as Dr. Mark Greene on the long-running TV series ER, whom he portrayed from its premiere in 1994 to the end of the 8th season in 2002. The series also afforded Edwards his first opportunity to direct. Edwards' desire to pursue directing led to his request to be written out of the series. He reportedly earned $35,000,000 for three seasons on ER, which made him one of television's highest-paid actors.[5] Edwards and his co-star George Clooney were the ones who suggested doing an episode of ER live.[6] The fourth-season premiere, "Ambush" was performed live twice with an East Coast and West Coast version.
Edwards has not won a Primetime Emmy, though he has been nominated four times. He won a Golden Globe Award For Best Performance by an Actor-In a TV Series after being nominated four times, and he has two Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
In 2007, Edwards appeared as SFPD inspector Bill Armstrong in David Fincher's Zodiac, about the Zodiac Killer, the notorious serial killer who terrorized San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 2008, Edwards returned to ER to reprise his role as Dr. Greene (in flashback scenes, where he treats the dying son of character Catherine Banfield) for one episode during its 15th and final season.[7]
In 2010, Edwards appeared in the movie Motherhood, which set a record for the biggest bomb in British cinema history garnering just £88 on 11 tickets on opening weekend.[8] Motherhood did not fare much better in the United States. earning just $93,388 in three weeks of release.[9]
In 2013, Edwards returned to episodic television with the conspiracy drama, Zero Hour, playing the male lead Hank Galliston. After three episodes, Zero Hour was cancelled due to poor ratings.[10]
Edwards was the voice of Echo, one of the fighter jets in the Disneytoon Studios film, Planes, and also voiced the character Pegleg Pirate in an episode of Blaze and the Monster Machines.
Personal life
Since 1994 Edwards has been married to Jeanine Lobell. They have one son and three daughters. They reside in New York City. In 1994, Lobell, who had worked as a makeup artist, founded the Stila cosmetics line, which she then sold to Estee Lauder in 1999.[11]
Edwards serves as chairman for Shoe4Africa, a non-profit organization that donates shoes to Kenyan athletes and aims to build the largest public children's hospital in Africa. He ran in the ING New York City Marathon on November 1, 2009 to raise funds for Shoe4Africa.[12]
Since his teenage years, Edwards has been a close friend of picture book illustrator Steven Kellogg. In 2011, Edwards's gift of $350,000 made it possible for Kellogg's complete life's work of more than 2700 illustrations to be donated to the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books.[13]
Edwards has been a certified private pilot (airplane single engine land) since 2012.[14]
Honors and awards
Edwards received four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.[15] He earned a People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series (1995);[15] and won six Screen Actors Guild Awards for: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (1996 and 1998), and Best Ensemble Cast (1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999).[15] He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Drama in 1998).[15]
Edwards also won a Daytime Emmy for the production of the underground rock documentary N.Y.H.C. (1999) and the telepic adaptation of Kimberly Willis Holt's 1998 coming of age novel My Louisiana Sky (2001),[16] and earned the Carnegie Medal Award for: My Louisiana Sky (2003).[16]
Filmography
Films
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1973 | Big Zapper | Kono's Boy | |
1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Stoner Bud | |
1983 | Heart Like a Wheel | John Muldowney (age 15-23) | |
1983 | High School U.S.A. | Bo Middleton (Age 18) | |
1984 | Revenge of the Nerds | Gilbert Lowe | |
1985 | Gotcha! | Jonathan Moore | |
1985 | The Sure Thing | Lance | |
1985 | Going for the Gold | Bill Johnson | The story of Olympic downhill racer Bill Johnson |
1986 | Top Gun | Lt. (j.g.) Nick "Goose" Bradshaw | |
1987 | Summer Heat | Aaron | |
1987 | Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise | Gilbert Lowe | |
1988 | Hawks | Deckermensky, 'Decker' | |
1988 | Miracle Mile | Harry Washello | |
1988 | Mr. North | Theophilus North | |
1989 | How I Got Into College | Kip Hammett | |
1990 | Downtown | Alex Kearney | |
1992 | Pet Sematary Two | Chase Matthews | |
1992 | Delta Heat | Mike Bishop | |
1992 | Landslide | Bob Boyd | |
1993 | Sexual Healing | David | Nominated — CableACE Award for Actor in a Movie or Miniseries |
1994 | The Client | Clint Von Hooser | |
1994 | Charlie's Ghost Story | Dave | |
1998 | Good Night, Gorilla | Zookeeper | Voice |
1998 | Playing by Heart | Roger | |
1999 | Don't Go Breaking My Heart | Tony Dorfman | |
2000 | The Island of the Skog | Narrator | Voice |
2001 | Jackpot | Tracy | |
2003 | Northfork | Happy | |
2004 | Thunderbirds | Ray "Brains" Hackenbacker | |
2004 | The Forgotten | Jim Paretta | |
2007 | Zodiac | Inspector William Armstrong | |
2009 | Motherhood | Avery Welsh | |
2010 | Flipped | Steven Loski | |
2012 | Big Sur | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | |
2013 | Planes | Echo | Voice |
2015 | Experimenter | Miller | |
2015 | Consumed | Lab Scientist |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1981 | The Killing of Randy Webster | Tommy Lee Swanson | |
1981 | Walking Tall | Robbie | 1 episode |
1982 | Police Squad! | Dental Patient | 1 episode - uncredited |
1982–83 | It Takes Two | Andy Quinn | 22 episodes |
1983 | High School U.S.A. | Beau Middleton | |
1983 | For Love and Honor | Michelson | 1 episode |
1984 | Call to Glory | Billy | |
1985 | Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story | Bill Johnson | |
1990 | El Diablo | Billy Ray Smith | |
1990 | Hometown Boy Makes Good | Boyd Geary | |
1991 | The General Motors Playwrights Theater | Josh | 1 episode |
1992–93 | Northern Exposure | Mike Monroe | 10 episodes |
1995 | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1 episode |
1996 | In Cold Blood | Dick Hickock | |
2001 | Cursed | Ricky | 1 episode |
2001 | Frasier | Tom | 1 episode |
1994–2002, 2008 | ER | Dr. Mark Greene | 181 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (1998) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (1996, 1998) Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Drama Series (1995–98) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (1996–99) TV Land Award - Icon Award (2009) Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (1996–97, 1999) Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (1997) Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (1997, 1999, 2001) Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (1995, 2000–01) Nominated — TV Guide Award for Actor of the Year in a Drama Series (2001) |
2013 | Zero Hour | Hank Galliston | 13 episodes |
2015 | Girls | Melvin Shapiro | 1 episode ("Iowa") |
2015 | Blue Bloods | Owen Cairo[17] | 1 episode |
2016 | Billions | Judge Whit Wilcox | 2 episodes |
2016 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Patrick Griffin | 1 episode ("Rape Interrupted") |
2016 | Drunk History | Giles Allen | 1 episode |
Producer
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1999 | Don't Go Breaking My Heart | Executive producer | |
1999 | Border Line | Executive producer | Television film |
1999 | N.Y.H.C. | Executive producer | |
2001 | My Louisiana Sky | Executive producer | Television film Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video (2002) Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special (2002) |
2003 | Die, Mommie, Die! | Producer | |
2010 | Temple Grandin | Executive producer | Television film Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie (2010) |
References
- ^ According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com
- ^ Advanced Primetime Awards, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences website, retrieved 2009-04-17;
- ^ "Anthony Edwards Biography (1962-)". FilmReference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
- ^ "Peter Edwards and Bride on Honeymoon in Sun Valley". 1950-12-08.
- ^ "Dr. Benton's $27m cut". BBC News. 17 August 1999. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
- ^ ER: The Complete Fourth Season, Extra Features
- ^ "Dr. Greene returns in `ER' final-season flashback". Yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-13.
- ^ Anita Hill (2010-03-26). "The Uma Thurman film so bad it made £88 on opening weekend". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "Motherhood (2009)". BoxOfficeMojo. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
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- ^ "ESTEE LAUDER SAYS IT HAS AGREED TO BUY STILA COSMETICS". NYTimes Co. 1999-08-06. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
- ^ Oh, Eunice (2009-09-03). "Anthony Edwards Goes the Distance for Charity". People magazine. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
- ^ "Mazza Obtains Major Collection of Kellogg Artwork". University of Findlay. 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
- ^ "Pilots: Anthony Edwards". AOPA. 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
- ^ a b c d NBC Press Release: NBC Announces Golden Globe Winner & Emmy Nominee Anthony Edwards to Reprise His Role as Dr. Mark Greene...., originally issued 09-04-08, The Futon Critic website, retrieved 2009-04-17
- ^ a b Anthony Edwards Biography, Film.com website, retrieved 2009-04-17
- ^ http://2paragraphs.com/2015/11/who-is-bullit-car-owner-owen-cairo-on-blue-bloods/
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