Peter Friedman
Acting
1949-04-24 · New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
King Hamlet
2025 · Movie
Marina
2025 · Movie
The Variable
2024 · Movie
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024 · Movie
Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert
2024 · Movie
Carmen & Moony
2023 · Movie
She Said
2022 · Movie
Daddy's Girl
2022 · Movie
Good Grief
2021 · Movie
Stars in the House
2020 · Series
Sundowners
2019 · Movie
Succession
2018 · Series
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017 · Series
5 Doctors
2016 · Movie
Keep in Touch
2015 · Movie
The Affair
2014 · Series
Side Effects
2013 · Movie
Made in Jersey
2012 · Series
Coming Up Roses
2011 · Movie
Person of Interest
2011 · Series
Harvest
2011 · Movie
Love & Other Drugs
2010 · Movie
The Messenger
2009 · Movie
Spinning Into Butter
2009 · Movie
Breaking Upwards
2009 · Movie
Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Movie
The Savages
2007 · Movie
I'm Not There
2007 · Movie
Damages
2007 · Series
Unconscious
2006 · Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Movie
Heist
2006 · Series
Freedomland
2006 · Movie
Ghost Whisperer
2005 · Series
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Movie
King of the Corner
2004 · Movie
Paycheck
2003 · Movie
Without a Trace
2002 · Series
Power and Beauty
2002 · Movie
Two Against Time
2002 · Movie
Baby Bob
2002 · Series
Someone Like You...
2001 · Movie
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000 · Movie
Creating Ragtime
1998 · Movie
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997 · Movie
I'm Not Rappaport
1996 · Movie
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996 · Movie
The Heidi Chronicles
1995 · Movie
Safe
1995 · Movie
Blink
1993 · Movie
Single White Female
1992 · Movie
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991 · Movie
Brooklyn Bridge
1991 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Hothouse
1988 · Series
The Seventh Sign
1988 · Movie
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987 · Series
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · Movie
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
Piaf
1984 · Movie
Daniel
1983 · Movie
Rage of Angels
1983 · Series
Prince of the City
1981 · Movie
Christmas Evil
1980 · Movie
The Muppet Show
1976 · Series
The Rules of the Game
1975 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Elderwood
Movie
Governors Island
Movie
Masters of Doom
Series