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My Take
Mandy Patinkin is one of the few performers whose speaking voice and singing voice feel like the same instrument. A Broadway veteran shaped by Sondheim who then won an Emmy on television — that range alone earns my respect, but it's his emotional nakedness that keeps me watching. He commits to feeling at a scale most actors would find embarrassing, and he makes it land every time. Debuting opposite Meryl Streep in 1975 and still working with that intensity decades later speaks to rare artistic stamina. His 2018 Walk of Fame star felt less like an honor and more like overdue paperwork.
Overview
Mandel Bruce Patinkin ( ; born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer in musical theatre, television, and film. As a Broadway performer, he has collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Patinkin made his theatre debut in 1975 starring opposite Meryl Streep in the revival of the comic play Trelawny of the "Wells" at The Public Theatre's Shakespeare Festival.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mandy Patinkin
- Name (Japanese)
- マンディ・パティンキン
- Reading
- まんでぃ・ぱてぃんきん
- Born
- November 30, 1952 (age 73)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Dragon
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 182 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / director / screenwriter / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- South Shore High School
- University
- University of Kansas
Awards & achievements
- 2018 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1995 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Singer — see all → · Director — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.