Oliver Platt

Canadian-born American actor with a career spanning over three decades, celebrated for versatile performances across film and television.

Oliver Platt - Personal Information

  • Name: Oliver Platt
  • Date of Birth: January 12, 1960
  • Place of Birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
  • Gender: Male
  • Job Title: Actor
  • Crew Jobs: Associate Producer

Biography

Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers (both 1993), Executive Decision, A Time to Kill (both 1996), Dangerous Beauty, Bulworth, The Impostors, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Ready to Rumble, Gun Shy (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Zig Zag (2002), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Martian Child (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), X-Men: First Class, The Oranges (both 2011), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013), Frank and Cindy and One More Time (both 2015).

Selected Filmography

A selection of Oliver Platt's most notable recent film and television appearances.

  • Emperor (2026) as The Pope Clement VII
  • Babes (2024) as Bernie
  • The Bear (TV - 2022) as Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) as The Voice (voice)
  • The Cleanse (2018) as Ken Roberts
  • The Bombing of Wall Street (2018) as Self - Narrator (voice)
  • The Gilded Age (2018) as Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Into the Amazon (2018) as Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) as M.C. Gaines
  • The Great War (2017) as Self - Narrator (voice)

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