
Tony Goldwyn
Biography
Anthony Howard 'Tony' Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He's known for his roles as Carl Bruner in Ghost, President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC's drama Scandal, district attorney Nicholas Baxter on Law & Order, Gordon Gray in Oppenheimer, Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), Andrew Prior in Divergent and Insurgent, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, Michael Drucker in The 6th Day, Dr. William 'Will' Rudolph in Kiss the Girls, Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Harold Nixon in Nixon (1995), Fletcher Cole in The Pelican Brief, and the voice of Tarzan in the Disney animated Tarzan.
He made his acting debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film Ghost (1990), which earned him a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star as Harold Nixon in the biographical film Nixon (1995), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and as Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998).
He portrayed Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), which earned him a second nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the ABC legal/political drama Scandal (2012–2018) and directed a number of episodes for the series, for which he won a Peabody Award.
He is the son of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and actress Jennifer Howard. His paternal grandparents were film producer and movie studio mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. His brother John Goldwyn is a film producer, a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of the series Dexter. His brother Peter is also a film producer and the current President of Samuel Goldwyn Films. His half-sister Liz Goldwyn is a filmmaker. His niece is writer/producer Emily Goldwyn (John's daughter - and her mother is actress Colleen Camp).
He has been married to production designer Jane Musky since 1987 and they have two daughters: Anna, a screenwriter, and Tess, an actress.
Acting (58 movies)

Ghost
1990

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991

The Last Samurai
2003

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
1986

The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022

Doomsday Gun
1994

The 6th Day
2000

Kiss the Girls
1997

The Mechanic
2011

Kuffs
1992

Tarzan
1999

American Gun
2005

Abandon
2002

An American Rhapsody
2001

The Sisters
2005

Truman
1995

Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic
2007

Joshua
2002

The Last House on the Left
2009

Murder Mystery 2
2023

The Boys Next Door
1996

Pocahontas: The Legend
1995

The Lesser Evil
1998

The Godfather of Green Bay
2005

Reckless
1995

Romance & Cigarettes
2005

Traces of Red
1992

Trouble on the Corner
1997

Divergent
2014

Gaby: A True Story
1987

Iran: Days of Crisis
1991

The Substance of Fire
1996

Ash Tuesday
2003

Taking the Heat
1993

Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs
2014

The Last Tattoo
1994

Love Matters
1993

The Last Word
1995

Oppenheimer
2023

Bounce
2000

Plane
2023

Insurgent
2015

The Belko Experiment
2016

Ghosts Never Sleep
2005

Ezra
2024

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017

Nixon
1995

The Pelican Brief
1993

All I Wish
2018

Vault of Horror I
1994

Dark Holiday
1989

King Richard
2021

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019

The Last Mile
1992

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
1988

One Battle After Another
2025

but i'm here too
2021
Directing (6 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| A Walk on the Moon | 1999 | Producer |
| Conviction | 2010 | Producer |
| but i'm here too | 2021 | Producer |
| Ezra | 2024 | Producer |



