Oliver Platt James Biography

Oliver Platt James is an American actor born in Canada and has appeared in several notable films as well as TV series and achieved nominations for a Golden Globe Award, Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Oliver Platt James Age

Platt was born on 12 January 1960 in Windsor, Canada and his birth sign is Capricorn.

Oliver Platt James Height

He stands at a height of 6 feet 3 inches.

Oliver Platt James Parents

Oliver was born to his parents Sheila Maynard and Nicholas Platt, an American couple living in Canada at the time where his mother served as a clinical social worker in Islamabad, while his father Nicholas, was a diplomat who worked as the U.S ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines.

Oliver Platt James Siblings

Oliver has two brothers, an older brother named Adam Platt, who was a New York Magazine restaurant critic, and a younger brother known as Nicholas Platt Jr.

Oliver Platt James Young

Platt’s childhood was spent in Asia, the Middle East, and Washington, D.C, because of his father’s career as an ambassador. Platt joined twelve different schools, including the American School in Japan, and has said “Even now I find myself envying people who have neighbourhoods and roots”. Platt’s family made frequent trips back to Washington, where they held Redskins season tickets. When he was 9 years old, Platt along with his family visited the Kennedy Center in Washington, where he watched a performance that helped inspire his acting career. “One of the performances that really made me want to be an actor started out with this probably 20-minute rambling, drunken monologue by this bum. And it was a young Morgan Freeman. I’ll never forget it. This guy was just so riveting. He stood there on stage alone before the curtain went up, and he held this audience utterly rapt. Including myself, obviously.” According to Platt, drama departments gave his childhood some stability, “It was something of a survival mechanism, in that it gave me a little subculture to plug into wherever I ended up. Kids need that. I certainly did.”

Oliver Platt James Education

Platt joined a progressive boarding school named Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado where he majored in drama at Tufts University. Here, he met and became close friends with Hank Azaria. He spent 3 years serving in theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, which he said had a “wealth of serious amateur theatre at that time…I played many roles, and it was the best training I could have had.” Platt travelled along with Shakespeare and Company, based in Lenox, Massachusetts, touring schools to earn his Equity card, prior to moving to New York. His early career involved Off-Broadway and regional theatre, and he performed on stage with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and other companies across many genres. He obtained an agent while serving at Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, and met actor Bill Murray at his cousin’s Christmas party. Murray joined Platt’s show and recommended Platt to director Jonathan Demme, who cast him in Married to the Mob in the year 1988. He attributes his breakthrough to appearing at the Punch Line Theatre.

Oliver Platt James Wife

Oliver is married to his lovely wife Mary Camilla Bonsal Campbell in Kittery Point and the couple wedded on 12 September 1992. Oliver said this in regards to his focus on film more than theatre, “I’ve got a wife and three kids, so the film is just the most viable thing for me right now. I still love the theatre, but the commitment in time and energy to do live theatre is so great, and, frankly, the financial rewards are just not as attractive. When you have a family, you have to think about those things.”

Oliver Platt James Children

He has three kids known as a Lilly Platt is his oldest daughter, born in 1995, followed by his son George, who was born in 1997, and Clare who was born in 1999 is his youngest daughter.

Oliver Platt James Net Worth

Oliver has an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars his main source of income is his career as an actor.

Oliver Platt James Chicago Med

In the television series Chicago Med, Oliver portrays the character of Dr. Daniel Charles, who is the chief in the psychiatry department who was entitled to the task of helping other doctors with nuances of medicines and difficult patients.

Oliver Platt James Year One

Year One is an adventure comedy film which was released in the year 2009. He plays in the film as the high priest.

Oliver Platt James Movies:

• Lake Placid 1999
• The Three Musketeers 1993
• Beethoven 1992 2012 2009 Year One 2009
• Flatliners 1990
• A Time to Kill 1996
• Chef 2014
• Bicentennial Man 1999
• Indecent Proposal 1993
• Love & Other Drugs 2010
• Ready to Rumble 2000
• Executive Decision 1996
• Simon Birch 1998
• Shut In 2016
• Doctor Dolittle 1998
• Dangerous Beauty 1998
• Three to Tango 1999
• Casanova 2005
• X-Men: First Class 2011
• Tall Tale 1995
• Please Give 2010
• Diggstown 1992
• Don’t Say a Word 2001
• Working Girl 1988
• The Oranges 2011
• The Ice Harvest 2005
• Pieces of April 2003
• Benny & Joon 1993
• Gun Shy 2000
• Bulworth 1998
• Frost/Nixon 2008
• Funny Bones 1995
• The Impostors 1998
• The Ticket 2016
• Cut Bank 2014
• CZ12 2012
• Kill the Messenger 2014
• The Infiltrator 1995
• Liberty Stands Still 2002
• The Cleanse 2016
• Chicago Med Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 2017
• Frank and Cindy 2015
• Married to the Mob 1988
• Mali Marsovac 2007
• Hope Springs 2003
• Zig Zag 2002
• Kill The Ginger & Rosa 2012
• Loverboy 2005
• Oliver Platt James TV Shows
• Chicago Med Since 2015
• The Big C 2010 – 2013
• Huff 2004 – 2006
• Chicago P.D Since 2014
• Chicago Justice 2017
• The Bronx Is Burning 2007
• Bored to Death 2009 – 2011
• Deadline 2000 – 2001
• L’expérience interdite Since 2015
• Queens Supreme 2003
• The West Wing 1999 – 2006
• American Experience Since 1988
• Sofia the First 2012 – 2018
• Nip/Tuck 2003 – 2010
• NFL: Caught In the Draft Since 2014
• FREE HBO: Bessie HD CinderElmo Since 1999
• JFK: American Experience Since 2013
• Walt Disney Since 2015