Peter Friedman
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.
67 acting credits
Acting · 67
Law & Order
1990
Person of Interest
2011
Without a Trace
2002
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Miami Vice
1984
Great Performances
1971
Succession
2018
Damages
2007
Stars in the House
2020
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017
The Affair
2014
Love & Other Drugs
2010
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
The Muppet Show
1976
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
Made in Jersey
2012
Baby Bob
2002
Heist
2006
Paycheck
2003
She Said
2022
Synecdoche, New York
2008
Someone Like You...
2001
Side Effects
2013
The Messenger
2009
I'm Not There
2007
Rage of Angels
1983
Hothouse
1988
The Savages
2007
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
Freedomland
2006
The Seventh Sign
1988
Single White Female
1992
Prince of the City
1981
Safe
1995
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Blink
1993
Christmas Evil
1980
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
I'm Not Rappaport
1996
Daniel
1983
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Masters of Doom
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King of the Corner
2004
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000
Spinning Into Butter
2009
Piaf
1984
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert
2024
Breaking Upwards
2009
Coming Up Roses
2011
Two Against Time
2002
Harvest
2011
Power and Beauty
2002
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
The Heidi Chronicles
1995
The Rules of the Game
1975
King Hamlet
2025
Sundowners
2019
Keep in Touch
2015
Unconscious
2006
Daddy's Girl
2022
Creating Ragtime
1998
Marina
2025
Good Grief
2021
The Variable
2024
Carmen & Moony
2023