Oliver Platt

Oliver Platt
Image:Oliverplatt2x19.jpg Oliver Platt as The West Wing's Oliver Babish
Birth name	Oliver James Platt
Born	January 12 1960 (age 48) Windsor, Ontario, CAN

Oliver James Platt (born January 12, 1960 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian film and television actor.

A son of Nicholas Platt, a career American diplomat, and his wife, the former Sheila Maynard, as well as a grandson of American architect Geoffrey Platt, he is a distant cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales, through their shared descent from the American heiress Frances Work.

From 2004 to 2006 Platt starred as lawyer Russell Tupper in Huff, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

He also played Oliver Babish, White House Counsel, on the TV show The West Wing.

Platt graduated from Tufts University. In 1993, he married Camilla Campbell, and they have three children, Lili, George, and Claire.

He also performed the voice of Luther in EA Game's second installment of the SSX snowboarding games and appears as himself in the DVD content.

Partial filmography

• Working Girl (1988)
• Flatliners (1990)
• Beethoven (1992)
• Diggstown (1992)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)
• The Three Musketeers (1993)
• Funny Bones (1995)
• The Infiltrator (1995)
• Executive Decision (1996)
• A Time to Kill (1996)
• Bulworth (1998)
• Dangerous Beauty (1998)
• The Impostors (1998)
• Dr. Dolittle (1998)
• Simon Birch (1998)
• Lake Placid (1999)
• Three to Tango (1999)
• Bicentennial Man (1999)
• Ready to Rumble (2000)
• The West Wing (2001, 2005)
• Liberty Stands Still (2002)
• Pieces of April (2003)
• Hope Springs (2003)
• Kinsey (2004)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Casanova (2005)

External link

• Oliver Platt at the Internet Movie Database
• Food Bank For New York City public service announcementde:Oliver Platt

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