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BIRTHDAY:

30 November 1952, Chicago, Illinois

FAMILY:

wife: actress/author Kathryn Grody; sons: Isaac and Gideon

AWARDS:

Tony: 1980, Evita (Che Guevera)
Emmy: 1995, Chicago Hope (Dr. Jeffrey Geiger)

SPECIAL CAUSE:

Organ Donation: Among the many causes for which Mandy Patinkin raises money and awareness, organ donor programs have a specific personal significance since he received a donor cornea in 1996 (see links page)

RECORDINGS:

Solo Albums:

"Mandy Patinkin" (1989)	Available from CDNOW
"Dress Casual" (1990)	Available from CDNOW
"Experiment" (1994)	Available from CDNOW
"Oscar & Steve" (1995)	Available from CDNOW
"Mamaloshen" (Nonesuch Records, 1998)	Available from CDNOW

Cast Recordings and Other Albums:

"Evita" OBC album (1979)	Available from CDNOW
"Sunday in the Park with George" (1984)	Available from CDNOW
"The Secret Garden" (1991)	Available from CDNOW
"The Man of La Mancha" (1996)
"Leonard Bernstein's New York" (1996)	Available from CDNOW
and others

FILMS:

Ragtime (1981)	Video available from CDNOW
Yentl (1983)	Video available from CDNOW
Daniel (1983)
Maxie (1985)
The Princess Bride (1987)	Video available from CDNOW
Alien Nation (1988)	Video available from CDNOW
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Dick Tracy (1990)	Video available from CDNOW
True Colors (1991)	Video available from CDNOW
The Doctor (1991)
Impromptu (1991)
The Music of Chance (1993)	Video available from CDNOW
Squanto (1994)	Video available from CDNOW
Men with Guns (1997)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
and others

TELEVISION:

"Chicago Hope" (CBS, series, 1994-96)
Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (PBS, Film, 1996)	Video available from PBS
The Hunchback (TNT, Film, 1997)	Video available from CDNOW
Genesis: A Living Conversation	Video available from PBS

LIVE PERFORMANCES:

Evita, Falsettos, The Secret Garden, Sunday in the Park with George (Sunday was filmed for television broadcast in 1986, and is on video),
other plays and musicals;

concert tours, including "Dress Casual" and "Mamaloshen," since 1989;

myriad benefits for causes such as cancer research, spinal cord research, and women's shelters (For his ongoing work on behalf of Holocaust Remembrance, Mandy received the "Remembrance Award" given by the Friends of the New England Holocaust Memorial. You can read about it in The Jewish Advocate online.)

NEWS:

Mandy will receive his second corneal transplant on Wednesday, 11 November 1998.
You can read an account of his first transplant in TV Guide Insider.


Read a review of Mandy's latest show, Mamaloshen, from the Associated Press.
Playbill On-line also has a very nice review of Mandy's Mamaloshen concert.

IN THE WORKS:

Elmo in Grouchland: Mandy costars with Muppets! Vanessa Williams also stars as the Queen of Grouchland.

Disney's Hercules: Mandy as Hippocrates? Yep, in the new Saturday morning cartoon on ABC.

Lulu on the Bridge: Paul Auster's directorial debut, starring Mandy Patinkin, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Willem Dafoe, Gina Gershon, and Vanessa Redgrave, has been picked up for U.S. distribution by Trimark Films. You may remember that Mandy starred in the cinematic adaptation of Paul Auster's Music of Chance.