Adam Arkin
- Acting
- August 19, 1956 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. His father was the Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin and his brother is the actor Matthew Arkin. Adam Arkin is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Actor, 1991, I Hate Hamlet) as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards (Ensemble, Chicago Hope), and a DGA Award (My Louisiana Sky). Beginning in 1990, he had a recurring guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. Between 2007 and 2009, he co-starred in the drama series Life. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy, and Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005).
Known for
Filmography
- American Hostage · Director, Executive producer
- The American Revolution · James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (Voice)
- Transplant · Dr. Robinson
- Sugar · Co-Executive Producer, Director
- The American Buffalo · Voice
- The Night Agent · Director
- Poker Face · Mark Getzler, Director
- The U.S. and the Holocaust · Self
- The Offer · Director
- Pig · Darius
- Big Shot · Sam
- Rebel · Mark Duncan
- The Act · Detective, Director
- Succession · Director
- Get Shorty · Executive producer, Director
- Santa Clarita Diet · Director
- Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls · Self, Director
- Billions · Director
- The Carmichael Show · Grant
- Sneaky Pete · Director
- Secrets and Lies · Director
- How to Get Away with Murder · Wallace Mahoney
- 10 Cent Pistol · Nir Zir
- Extant · Director
- In Security · Broomhall
- Fargo · Hamish Boker, Hamish Broker
- We Are Men · Director
- Masters of Sex · Shep Tally, Director
- The Blacklist · Director
- The Bridge · Federal Investigator, Director
- Family Tools · Mr. Baynor
- The Americans · Director, Producer
- Outlaw Country · Director
- The Newsroom · Adam Roth
- The Sessions · Josh
- The Finder · Director
- Prohibition · Reader (Voice)
- The Booth at the End · Director
- Just Peck · Michael Peck
- The Chicago Code · Director
- Terriers · Director
- Summer Eleven
- Rizzoli & Isles · Director
- Tell-Tale · Husband
- Justified · Theo Tonin, Director
- The Deep End · Director
- A Serious Man · Divorce Lawyer
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea
- Modern Family · Reece
- Nurse Jackie · Director
- Lie to Me · Director
- Sons of Anarchy · Ethan Zobelle, Director
- Life · Ted Earley, Director
- The War · Reader (Voice)
- Graduation · Dean Deeley
- The Riches · Director
- Dirt · Director
- Big Day · Director
- Murder on Pleasant Drive · John Smith
- Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School · Gabe Difranco
- Kids in America · Ed Mumsford
- Commander in Chief · Carl Brantley
- The Closer · Scott Esposito / Steven Hirschbaum, Director
- Grey's Anatomy · Director
- Hitch · Max
- Boston Legal · A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer, Director
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson · Other Voices (Voice)
- TV Land Moguls
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip · Other Voices (Voice)
- Pristine Books · Director
- 8 Simple Rules · Ed Gibb
- Monk · Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck, Director
- Stark Raving Mad · Don Partridge (uncredited)
- Baby Bob · Walter Spencer
- Roughing It · Henry
- Roughing It · Henry
- Off Season · Richard Frangello
- My Louisiana Sky · Director
- Mission · Vissarion Belinsky (Voice)
- East of A · Sylvester