Michael Cristofer

Michael Cristofer

Michael Ivan Cristofer is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and an Antoinette Perry “Tony” Award for the Broadway production of his play, The Shadow Box. Subsequent to New York, the play was produced in every major American city and worldwide from Europe to the Far East. Other plays include Breaking Up at Primary Stages; Ice at Manhattan Theatre Club; Black Angel at Circle Repertory Company; The Lady and the Clarinet starring Stockard Channing, produced by the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theater, Off-Broadway and on the London Fringe, and Amazing Grace starring Marsha Mason which received the American Theater Critics Award as the best play produced in the United States during the 1996-97 season. His film work includes the screenplays for The Shadow Box directed by Paul Newman (Golden Globe Award, Emmy nomination), Falling in Love, The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Breaking Up, and Casanova starring Heath Ledger. His directing credits include Gia starring Angelina Jolie, which was nominated for five Emmys and for which he won a Director’s Guild Award. He then directed Body Shots and Original Sin. For eight years he worked as artistic advisor and finally co-artistic director of River Arts Repertory in Woodstock, New York, a company which produced new plays by writers such as Richard Nelson, Mac Wellman, Len Jenkin, Eric Overmeyer and many others. Also at River Arts, he wrote stage adaptations of the films Love Me or Leave Me and the legendary Casablanca, and directed Joanne Woodward in his own adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts. His most recent work for the theater, The Whore and Mr. Moore, is in workshop at the Actor’s Studio where he is a member. He's had recurring roles as Truxton Spangler on AMC's Rubicon, as Jerry Rand on Smash, and as Phillip Price on Mr. Robot. His film roles include The Other Woman, Emoticon and The Adderall Diaries.

Known For: Acting

Born: North Trenton, New Jersey, USA, 1945-01-22

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder	Alessini (as Michael Ivan Cristofer)	52
2	1975	Crime Club	Frank Swoboda	0
3	1975	Knuckle	Curley Delafield	0
4	1976	The Entertainer	Frank Rice	55
5	1976	The Last of Mrs. Lincoln	Robert Lincoln	0
6	1978	An Enemy of the People	Hovstad	65
7	1984	The Little Drummer Girl	Tayeh	55
8	1995	Die Hard: With a Vengeance	Jarvis	73
9	2010	The Other Woman	Sheldon Greenleaf	62
10	2014	5 Flights Up	Larry	60
11	2014	Emoticon	Walter Nevins	20
12	2015	The Girl in the Book	Dad	58
13	2015	Chronic	John	58
14	2016	The Adderall Diaries	Paul Hora	53
15	2016	Year by the Sea	Robin	80
16	2018	Last Supper	Raymond	51

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Gunsmoke	Ben Shindrow	66
2	1972	The Rookies	Charlie Phillips	68
3	1973	The Magician	Dave Webster	67
4	1973	Kojak	Michael Viggers Jr.	70
5	1974	Lincoln	John Nicolay	80
6	1975	Doctors' Hospital	Dr. Taback	50
7	1977	The Andros Targets	Ron Comack	50
8	2010	Rubicon	Truxton Spangler	76
9	2011	Suits	Paul	82
10	2011	American Horror Story	Harrison Renard	81
11	2012	Smash	Jerry Rand	65
12	2012	Elementary	Isaac Pike	76
13	2013	Ray Donovan	Danny O'Connor	75
14	2013	Ray Donovan	Priest	75
15	2015	Mr. Robot	Phillip Price (voice)	83
16	2015	Mr. Robot	Phillip Price	83
17	2024	Fallout	Elder Cleric Quintus	82

Michael Cristofer

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