Adam Arkin
March 2nd, 2009 by admin
Birth Date: 19th August, 1957
Age: 51
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Career: Film, stage, television actor, writer, director.
Active in career since: 1969
Life
Arkin was born in the house of actor/director/writer Alan Arkin and Jeremy Yaffe. Since 1999 he is married to Phyllis Anne Lyons and has a son with her. He is also a father of a girl, Molly, from his divorced wife, Linda.
Career
Adam has worked in various number of TV series like: Northern Exposure (CBS, 1990-95), Chicago Hope (CBS, 1994-2000), Law & Order (Season 16, 2005), The West Wing (1999), Frasier, Boston Legal, Baby Bob, Monk, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2002). Currently he is working on the NBC, detective drama, Life.
On the big screen, he has worked on films like: Hitch (2005) and Halloween: H20 (1998).
On stage, he has worked in a variety of Off-Broadway, Broadway, and regional theatre productions like: the South Coast Repertory world premiere and Broadway production of Brooklyn Boy.
He also has worked behind the cameras, directing episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, Boston Legal, The Riches, Dirt and Ally McBeal.
The TV series ‘Life’
In Life, Adam enacts the character of detective Crews’ housemate and financial consultant, Ted Earley. The duo first met and befriended in prison, where Ted served sentence for stealing cash from a very powerful company’s employee pension’s fund, as a CEO of the company. He feels remorse for his actions and is once saved by Crew in the prison which turned their friendship into very close ones.
Ted sticks by Crew as his close confidante in his unofficial and unlawful investigation regarding the conspiracy that was woven to frame him up for the murder of his ex-partner and his family. Ted also manages Crew’s finances. Later, Ted starts a teaching at a business school, but seeing the classes empty his lover, Olivia, passes on gossips of his crime which rises up the attendance, but a corrupt FBI Special Agent Bodner sends him back into prison from where Crews is determined to get him out.
Awards & Honors
Arking won an Emmy award in 2002 as the Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Special for his direction work in My Louisiana Sky. In 1991, he had bagged a Theatre World Award in recognition for his work in I Hate Hamlet
