Peter MacNicol

Infobox actor

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name = Peter MacNicol
birthdate = birth date and age|1954|4|10
location = Dallas, Texas
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spouse = Marsue MacNicol (1986–present)
children= 1 son
emmyawards = Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
2001 "Ally McBeal"
sagawards = Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
1998 "Ally McBeal"

Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954 in Dallas, Texas) is an Emmy Award winning American actor.

MacNicol was raised in Texas as the youngest of five children. MacNicol began his career studying at the University of Dallas and continued at the University of Minnesota. While in Minnesota, he performed in two seasons at the Guthrie Theater. A New York talent agent spotted him and told him to make a move to Manhattan. Shortly thereafter, he was cast in the off-Broadway play, "Crimes of the Heart". The production eventually moved to Broadway, and MacNicol won the Theatre World Award. It was also during this production that a casting agent noticed him and called him in to read for his eventual role in "Sophie's Choice".

In 1987, he starred in the Trinity Repertory Company's original production of the stage adaptation of "All the King's Men." This adaptation was developed with the consultation of the author himself.

Among his other stage credits is the Broadway production of "Black Comedy/White Lies", MacNicol also has further extensive classical repertory theater background, including the New York Shakespeare Festival in which he played title roles in "Richard II" and Romeo and Juliet, and appeared in "Twelfth Night", "Rum and Coke" and "Found a Peanut".

MacNicol's past work demonstrates the broad dramatic and comedic spectrum of his talent. On film, he has appeared as the naive Southern writer who fell in love with Meryl Streep in "Sophie's Choice"; the strange museum curator Janosh Poha in "Ghostbusters II" and the summer camp director Gary Granger in "Addams Family Values". Other film credits include "HouseSitter" and "American Blue Note".

MacNicol is best known among television viewers for his "Ally McBeal" performance as eccentric attorney John Cage, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001. He currently stars in the drama "NUMB3RS" as physicist Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and had a popular role as Tom Lennox in the sixth season of the hit Fox show "24". MacNicol will reprise his role as Lennox in the upcoming film . MacNicol has begun to record as Doctor Octopus for the first season of "The Spectacular Spider-Man", which premiered on The CW in March 2008. In addition, this year Peter has written a script entitled Salvation on Sand Mountain and is attached to the project as an executive producer and director.

MacNicol joined the picket line at FOX Studios in support of the Writers Guild of America strike and participated in the 9 November rally.

He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife of 20 years who runs The Corie Williams Scholarship Fund, a non-profit foundation that provides scholarships for inner-city children in Los Angeles.

Selected filmography

* "Dragonslayer" (1981)
* "Sophie's Choice" (1982)
* "Ghostbusters II" (1989)
* "By Dawn's Early Light" (1990)
* "HouseSitter" (1992)
* "The Powers That Be" (1992)
* "Addams Family Values" (1993)
* "Radioland Murders" (1994)
* "Chicago Hope" (1994–1995)
* "" (1995)
* "Ally McBeal" (1997–2002)
* "Bean" (1997)
* "Baby Geniuses" (1999)
* "" (2001): Fenwick
* "That Darn Car!" (2002)
* "Crazy Love" (2003)
* "Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law" (2003–2007): X the Eliminator
* "Breakin' All the Rules" (2004)
* "Danny Phantom" (2004-present): Sidney Poindexter (special guest)
* "The Batman" (2004–2008): Dr.Langstrom/Man-Bat
* "Justice League Unlimited" (2005): Chronos
* "NUMB3RS" (2005–present)
* "24" (2007)
* "" (2008)
* "The Spectacular Spider-Man" (2008-present): Doctor Octopus

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title=Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
years=1998
for "Ally McBeal"
before=Jason Alexander; Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Michael Richards; Jerry Seinfeld
for "Seinfeld"
after=Dan Butler; Peri Gilpin; Kelsey Grammer; Jane Leeves; John Mahoney; David Hyde Pierce
for "Frasier"