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Peter Gallagher
BornJuly 19 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
New York City, New York, United States
Spouse(s)Paula Harwood (1983 - present) 2 children


Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19 1955) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor.

Biography

Early life

Gallagher was born in New York City, the son of Mary, a bacteriologist, and Tom Gallagher, an advertising executive.[1] He is of Irish Catholic background[2] and was raised in Armonk, New York. Gallagher graduated from Tufts University, where he was very visible in the performance scene on campus, appearing in such shows as Stephen Sondheim's Company and singing with the all-male a cappella group the Beelzebubs.

Career

Gallagher specializes in character parts which are, to varying degrees, either good or bad guys. He played a potential career threat to Tim Robbins's studio executive in The Player; the comatose "fiancé" of Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping; an egotistical real estate salesman having an affair with Annette Bening in American Beauty; a villainous media executive sej in Mr. Deeds; and a political reporter exposing media ethics during a presidential debate in The Last Debate.

Gallagher appeared on Broadway with Glenn Close in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, but first achieved fame for his role in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989). He also starred as Sky Masterson in the 1992 Broadway Revival of Guys and Dolls.

From 2003-2007, Gallagher has starred as Sandy Cohen, a public defender and corporate lawyer, on the Fox television show The O.C., a show which has introduced him to a whole new generation of TV viewers. He hosts an annual award ceremony named "The Sandy Cohen Awards" or The Sandys, which, in honor of his character on The O.C., gives a scholarship to a law school student at UC Berkeley who wants to become a public defender.

Gallagher released an album entitled 7 Days in Memphis in 2005, on the Sony BMG label. This includes a studio recording of his performance of "Don't Give Up On Me" (originally by Solomon Burke), which was featured in an episode of The O.C.. He also has a video for his single "Still I Long For Your Kiss", in which he starred with his TV-wife Kelly Rowan.

On April 5, 2007, Gallagher received the Light on the Hill award at Tufts University. The award is given to notable alumni from Tufts who have demonstrated ambition, achievement, and active citizenship. Gallagher sang with the Beelzebubs and gave a speech to a full crowd in Cohen Auditorium.

Filmography

References

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Country  United States
First awarded 1944
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is an American stage musical and film composer and lyricist, one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Company
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Larry Kert and cast of the original Broadway production
Music Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics Stephen Sondheim
Book George Furth

Productions 1970 Broadway
1971 US Tour
1972 West End
1995 Broadway revival
1995 West End revival
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A Cappella (Italian: “in the church style”) music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.
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Tim Robbins

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Birth name Timothy Francis Robbins
Born September 16 1958 (1958--) (age 49)
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The Player (1992) is a film that tells the story of Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), a Hollywood studio executive who believes he is being blackmailed by a screenwriter whose script he once rejected.
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Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock in Cannes in 2002.
Birth name Sandra Annette Bullock
Born July 26 1964 (1964--) (age 43)
Arlington, Virginia


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While You Were Sleeping is a 1995 romantic comedy film directed by John Turteltaub and starring Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman and Peter Gallagher. The script was written by Daniel G. Sullivan and Frederic Lebow.
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Annette Bening

Birth name Annette Carol Bening
Born May 29 1958 (1958--) (age 49)
Topeka, Kansas, U.S.

Spouse(s) J.
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American Beauty is a 1999 drama film that explores themes of romantic and paternal love, freedom, sexuality, beauty, self-liberation, existentialism, the search for happiness, and family against the backdrop of
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Mr. Deeds is a 2002 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder, and is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The movie also features Peter Gallagher, John Turturro and Steve Buscemi, with small roles by John McEnroe and Al Sharpton
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Glenn Close

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Born March 19 1947 (1947--) (age 60)
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Tom Stoppard

Pseudonym: William Boot (as a theatre critic)
Born: July 3 1937 (1937--) (age 70)
Zlín, Czechoslovakia
Occupation: Playwright and screenwriter
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The Real Thing is a play by Tom Stoppard, first performed in 1982. It examines the nature of honesty, and its use of a play within a play is one of many levels on which the author teases the audience with the difference between semblance and reality.
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Steven Soderbergh

Birth name Steven Andrew Soderbergh
Born January 14 1963 (1963--) (age 44)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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sex, lies, and videotape (the title is always given in lower case letters) is a 1989 independent film that brought director Steven Soderbergh to prominence.
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Guys and Dolls
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Original Cast Recording
Music Frank Loesser
Lyrics Frank Loesser
Book Jo Swerling
Abe Burrows
Based upon The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon
Productions 1950 Broadway
1953 West End
1955 film
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