Broadway BUZZ

Actor, director and producer Tony Goldwyn has just wrapped production on the new Netflix series, Chambers, with Uma Thurman after seven seasons starring as President Fitzgerald Grant in Shonda Rhimes’ remarkable series Scandal. Previously, he co-created and executive produced the series titled The Divide for AMC Studios. Goldwyn directed the two-hour pilot, while partner Richard LaGravenese wrote the episodes. He also took on the controversial figure Warren Jeffs, starring in the Lifetime movie, Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs. Other television acting credits include The Good Wife, Dexter, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Without a Trace, The L Word, the HBO miniseries From The Earth to the Moon, Frasier, Murphy Brown and Designing Women, where he portrayed the first AIDS victim on a prime-time series. In addition to acting on the show, Goldwyn directed multiple episodes of Scandal. Other television directing credits include Dexter, Justified, Law & Order, Damages, Grey’s Anatomy, and The L Word, among others. Goldwyn made his feature directorial debut with A Walk on the Moon starring Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive the National Board of Review Award for Excellence in Independent Filmmaking. Further feature directing credits include The Last Kiss, based on Gabriele Muccino’s L’ultimo bacio, for which Goldwyn received Best Director from the Boston Film Festival, and the romantic comedy Someone Like You. His last effort, Conviction, which Goldwyn also produced, earned Hilary Swank a SAG Award nomination, won Best Film at the Boston Film Festival and was awarded a Freedom of Expression honor from the National Board of Review. As an actor, Goldwyn first caught audiences’ attention with his portrayal of the villain in the box office smash Ghost. He went on to appear in numerous other films including The Pelican Brief, Kiss the Girls, Oliver Stone’s Nixon, The Substance of Fire, The Last Samurai opposite Tom Cruise, and he is familiar to children as the title voice in Disney’s animated feature Tarzan. Most recently, he appeared in the film Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House with Liam Neeson and Diane Lane. He also starred with Sharon Stone in the indie rom-com All I Wish, The Belko Experiment, written and produced by James Gunn, and appeared in the hit features Divergent and Insurgent based on the YA novels by Veronica Roth. Goldwyn began his acting career on the stage, spending seven seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. His New York theater credits include Promises, Promises at the Broadway Theatre, Network at the Belasco Theatre, The Inheritance at the Barrymore Theatre, The Water’s Edge at the Second Stage Theater, The Dying Gaul at the Vineyard Theatre, Holiday at Circle in the Square Theatre opposite Laura Linney, Spike Heels with Kevin Bacon at the Second Stage Theater, The Sum of Us at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for which he earned an Obie Award, and Digby at the Manhattan Theatre Club.