Mandel Bruce Patinkin was born on November 30, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. He is an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a renowned tenor.

In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mandy won a Tony Award for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and was nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. In 1991 he returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, in 1992 appeared as Marvin in Falsettos and in 1997 played a sold–out engagement of his one-man concert, with all profits going to benefit five charitable organizations. Other stage credits include The Wild Party, Mamaloshen, The Winter’s Tale, The Knife, Leave It to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the ‘Wells’, The Shadow Box, The Split, Savages, and Henry IV, Part I. In 2004, Mandy played a six–week engagement of his one–man concert at the Off–Broadway complex Dodger Stages.

Feature film credits include: Piñero, Elmo In Grouchland, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl, The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: Indian Warrior. He won a 1995 Emmy® Award for his critically acclaimed performance of Dr. Jeffery Geiger on the CBS series, “Chicago Hope” and recently starred in the Showtime Original Series “Dead Like Me.” He is currently starring in the new CBS series “Criminal Minds.” His other television appearances include the role of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime film “Strange Justice,” playing Quasimodo opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film presentation of “The Hunchback,” and a film version of Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” for BBC/WGBH-Boston.

In 1989, Mandy began his concert career at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater. This coincided with the release of his first solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin. Since then he has toured extensively, appearing to sold–out audiences across the United States, Canada and in London, performing songs from writers including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others. In 1990 he released his second solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin In Concert: Dress Casual on CBS Records. His 1994 recording, Experiment, on the Nonesuch label, features songs from nine decades of popular music from Irving Berlin to Alan Menken. Also recorded on the Nonesuch label is Oscar & Steve and Leonard Bernstein’s New York. In 1998 he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The stage production of Mamaloshen was performed on and off–Broadway and has toured throughout the country. The recording of Mamaloshen won the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s equivalent of the Grammy Award). In 2001, Nonesuch Records released Kidults, a collection of beloved songs, designed — as the title suggests — for the kid in every adult. And, in 2002, Nonesuch Records released Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, a figurative journey through Sondheim’s music and lyrics. Mandy resides in New York City with his wife, actress and writer Kathryn Grody, and their two sons.

Filmography

• "Criminal Minds" (45 episodes, 2005-2007)
• Everyone's Hero (2006)
• Choking Man (2006)
• "Dead Like Me" (29 episodes, 2003-2004)
• NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 (2004)
• "Law & Order" (1 episode, 2003)
• Piñero (2001)
• "Boston Public" (1 episode, 2001)
• "Touched by an Angel" (1 episode, 2001)
• "Chicago Hope" (54 episodes, 1994-2000)
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
• Strange Justice (1999)
• This Is Odyssey with Mandy Patinkin (1999)
• "Hercules" (1 episode, 1998)
• Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
• Men with Guns (1997)
• The Hunchback (1997)
• Broken Glass (1996)
• "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1 episode, 1995)
• "The Simpsons" (1 episode, 1995)
• "Picket Fences" (1 episode, 1994)
• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
• Life with Mikey (1993)
• The Music of Chance (1993)
• The Doctor (1991)
• Impromptu (1991)
• True Colors (1991)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Alien Nation (1988)
• The House on Carroll Street (1988)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
• Sunday in the Park with George (1986)
• Maxie (1985)
• Yentl (1983)
• Daniel (1983)
• Ragtime (1981)
• Night of the Juggler (1980)
• French Postcards (1979)
• Last Embrace (1979)
• Charleston (1979)
• "Taxi" (1 episode, 1978)
• The Big Fix (1978)
• That Thing on ABC (1978)

Awards

• Emmy Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series "Chicago Hope" 1994 - 95
• CableACE Award Actor (Dramatic/Theatrical Special) "Sunday in the Park With George" 1986
• Tony Featured Actor in a Musical "Evita" 1980