Known for Acting
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.
Born
April 24, 1949 (age 77)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
48 films, 19 shows


King Hamlet
2025 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Actor Oscar Isaac takes on the iconic role of Shakespeare's Danish prince in an intimate look at his preparation and performance at NYC's Public Theater.
Marina
Marina
2025 · 14m
country: United States
Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for her aging father.


The Variable
2024 · 9m
country: Unknown
An “ethnically ambiguous” actor struggles to adjust to stereotypes projected onto him during the audition process.


Jim Henson Idea Man
2024 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.


Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert
2024 · 3h
country: United States
Celebrate the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Ragtime with this once-in-a-lifetime reunion concert featuring original cast members, including Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Peter Friedman, joined by Kelli O’Hara.


Carmen & Moony
2023 · 15m
country: United States
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.


She Said
2022 · 2h 9m
country: United States
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.


Daddy's Girl
2022 · 10m
country: United States
A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s apartment.


Good Grief
2021 · 11m
country: Unknown
On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their respects.


Sundowners
2019 · 9m
country: United States
Ali and her father cook, drink, and ignore what's going on in the next room.


5 Doctors
2016 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
A self-centered hypochondriac returns to his quaint hometown to visit his five childhood doctors in a single day, avoiding everyone from his past except his hapless former best friend whom he ropes into driving him around.


Keep in Touch
2015 · 1h 45m
country: United States
After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in a car accident many years prior. His online search leads him to her younger sister, an aspiring musician who bears a striking resemblance to the girl he used to love. Quickly becoming obsessed, he arranges a not-so-chance meeting and a relationship blossoms between the two before he has a chance to disclose his true identity.


Side Effects
2013 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.


Coming Up Roses
2011 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and bouts of depression.


Harvest
2011 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, Harvest is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another.


Love & Other Drugs
2010 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.


The Messenger
2009 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.


Spinning Into Butter
2009 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.


Breaking Upwards
2009 · 1h 28m
country: United States
'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an actual experiment devised by director/actor Daryl Wein and actress Zoe Lister-Jones, the film loosely interprets a year in their lives exploring alternatives to monogamy, and the madness that ensues. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?


Synecdoche, New York
2008 · 2h 4m
country: United States
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.


The Savages
2007 · 1h 54m
country: United States
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.


I'm Not There
2007 · 2h 15m
country: Germany
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.


Unconscious
2006 · 1h 24m
country: Unknown
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or not.


The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
country: United States
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.


Freedomland
2006 · 1h 53m
country: United States
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.


Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.


King of the Corner
2004 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.


Paycheck
2003 · 1h 59m
country: Canada
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.


Power and Beauty
2002 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.


Two Against Time
2002 · 1h 40m
country: United States
This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.


Someone Like You...
2001 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.


Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000 · 2h 58m
country: Unknown
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.


Creating Ragtime
1998 · 54m
country: Unknown
A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.


In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997 · 1h 40m
country: United States
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.


I'm Not Rappaport
1996 · 2h 15m
country: United States
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.


I Shot Andy Warhol
1996 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
The story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "SCUM" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he repeatedly ignored her. So she shot him.


The Heidi Chronicles
1995 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.


Safe
1995 · 1h 59m
country: United Kingdom
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.


Blink
1993 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.


Single White Female
1992 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Having recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young women quickly form a bond, but soon Allison begins to notice not all’s well with her new tenant.


Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he says he didn’t commit. When he is convicted with little evidence, his father begins a fierce struggle to free his son from prison.


The Seventh Sign
1988 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.


Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.


Piaf
1984 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast.


Daniel
1983 · 2h 10m
country: United Kingdom
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.


Prince of the City
1981 · 2h 47m
country: United States
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.


Christmas Evil
1980 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!


The Rules of the Game
1975 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds his impassivity tested when he has to duel his wife's frustrated paramour.