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Treat Williams (born
December 1,
1951) is an
American film, stage and television
actor. He is a prolific
character actor. From 2002 to 2006, he was the star of the popular television series
Everwood.
Biography
Early life
Williams was born
Richard Treat Williams in
Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Richard Norman Williams, a corporate executive, and Marion Andrew, an
antiques dealer. Williams graduated from the elite New England prep school,
Kent School, in
Connecticut and
Franklin and Marshall College.
Career
Williams came to world attention when he starred in the
Miloš Forman film
Hair (
1979). This film was based on the Broadway musical
Hair. Since that time he's gone on to appear in over seventy-five films and several television series, including, most notably,
1941 (1979),
Once Upon A Time In America (1984),
Dead Heat (1988),
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) and
Deep Rising (1998).
Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his part in
Hair. He got a second Golden Globe nomination for starring in Sydney Lumet's
Prince of the City. He got a third nomination for his performance as Stanley Kowalski in the television presentation of
A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1996, he was nominated for the Best Actor
Emmy Award by the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his work in
The Late Shift, an
HBO movie. Williams has also worked as a director, winning two festival awards for directing
Texan in
Showtime's Chanticleer series.
In 1996, he played bad guy Xander Drax in Paramount's big budget comic book adaptation,
The Phantom, where he did his best to take over the world and kill
Billy Zane's mysterious superhero.
Williams' acting career includes numerous stage roles. He won a
Drama League Award for his work in the Broadway revival of
Stephen Sondheim's Follies, and another for starring in the off-Broadway production of
Captains Courageous . Other notable Broadway shows include
Grease,
the Sherman Brothers'
Over Here!,
Once in a Lifetime,
Pirates of Penzance and
Love Letters, and off-Broadway, he's appeared in David Mamet's
Oleanna and
Oh, Hell (at Lincoln Center),
Some Men Need Help, and Randy Newman's
Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong. He premiered the Los Angeles production of
Love Letters and appeared in
War Letters at the Canon Theatre in Los Angeles.
Williams may be best known for his leading role as Dr. Andrew Brown in the former WB series
Everwood, about a New York neurosurgeon who moves his family to the fictional
Everwood,
Colorado. Although the show's ratings were never spectacular, it won critical acclaim and had a devoted following. Williams received two
SAG award nominations (2003 and 2004) for his role on the show.
Williams has recently made several guest appearances on the
ABC drama
Brothers & Sisters playing the role of David Morton, a friend and potential suitor of the
Sally Field character. Williams currently stars in a series on the
TNT titled
Heartland in which he plays, Nathaniel Grant, the head of a
Pittsburgh organ transplant center. He also starred in a
Lifetime movie called the Staircase Murders, which aired April 15, 2007.
Personal life
Williams lives with his wife and two children in
Utah where
Everwood was shot. The family also has a home in
New York City and a house in
Manchester, Vermont.
WWE RAW's play-by-play commentator,
Jim Ross is known to be a big fan of Williams' work as an actor.
A
descendant of early American settler
Robert Treat and
Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence.
Filmography
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