Paul Giamatti

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-06-06 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Paul Giamatti

Biography

Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (/ˌdʒiːəˈmɑːti/JEE-ə-MAH-tee; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. After studying acting at the Yale School of Drama, he performed in numerous theatrical productions. Giamatti debuted on Broadway, portraying Ezra Chater in the Tom Stoppard play Arcadia (1995). Later that year, he played the Rev. Donald "Streaky" Bacon in the David Hare play Racing Demon (1995). He returned to theatre in the revivals of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1997) and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman...

Acting

1998

Saving Private Ryan

as Sergeant Hill

2001

2005

Cinderella Man

as Joe Gould

2006

The Illusionist

as Inspector Uhl

1999

Man on the Moon

as Bob Zmuda

2011

The Ides of March

as Tom Duffy

1997

Deconstructing Harry

as Professor Abbott

2003

American Splendor

as Harvey Pekar

2007

Shoot 'Em Up

as Hertz

2007

Fred Claus

as Nick (Santa) Claus

2009

Cold Souls

as Paul

2009

2002

Big Fat Liar

as Marty Wolf

2007

2005

Robots

as Tim the Gate Guard (voice)

2003

Paycheck

as Shorty

2000

1961

as Ted Hedley

1998

1997

2004

Sideways

as Miles

2006

Lady in the Water

as Cleveland Heep

2006

The Ant Bully

as Stan Beals (voice)

2003

The Pentagon Papers

as Anthony Russo

2008

Pretty Bird

as Rick Honeycutt

2009

The Last Station

as Vladimir Chertkov

2007

Trumbo

as Self

2007

The Hawk Is Dying

as Georges Gattling

1998

Safe Men

as Veal Chop

2011

2011

Ironclad

as King John

2001

Storytelling

as Toby Oxman

2009

Duplicity

as Richard Garsik

2011

Too Big to Fail

as Ben Bernanke

2010

Barney's Version

as Barney Panofsky

2012

Cosmopolis

as Benno Levin

1992

Past Midnight

as Larry Canipe

2000

Duets

as Todd Woods

2018

The Catcher Was a Spy

as Sam Goudsmit

2012

Rock of Ages

as Paul Gill

2011

Win Win

as Mike Flaherty

2013

John Dies at the End

as Arnie Blondestone

2013

12 Years a Slave

as Theophilus Freeman

2013

Turbo

as Chet (voice)

2013

2013

2013

The Congress

as Dr Barker

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The Goon

as Franky

2013

All Is Bright

as Dennis Girard

2013

Parkland

as Abraham Zapruder

2007

Too Loud a Solitude

as Hanta (voice)

2006

The Amazing Screw-On Head

as Screw-On Head (voice)

1998

Winchell

as Herman Klurfeld

2022

2015

Madame Bovary

as Monsieur Homais

2014

River of Fundament

as Ptah-Nem-Hotep

2002

Thunderpants

as Johnson J. Johnson

2015

Love & Mercy

as Dr. Eugene Landy

2018

Sex, Lies and Butterflies

as Narrator (voice)

1998

2015

Straight Outta Compton

as Jerry Heller

2005

The Fan and the Flower

as Narrator (voice)

1990

She'll Take Romance

as Heckler #2

2009

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

as Uncle Chaz (archive footage)

1992

Singles

as Kissing Man

2016

Ratchet & Clank

as Chairman Drek (voice)

2015

San Andreas

as Dr. Lawrence Hayes

2014

Hoke

as Hoke Mosely

2015

Giant Sloth

as Gordon Boonewell

1998

Tourist Trap

as Jeremiah Piper

1999

2025

2016

The Phenom

as Dr. Mobley

2016

Morgan

as Dr. Alan Shapiro

1995

Sabrina

as Scott

2015

The Little Prince

as The Academy Teacher (voice)

2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

as Aleksei Sytsevich

1997

Arresting Gena

as Detective Wilson

2018

Private Life

as Richard Grimes

2013

Romeo & Juliet

as Friar Laurence

2003

Confidence

as Gordo

1997

Donnie Brasco

as FBI Technician

2021

1995

Mighty Aphrodite

as Extras Guild Researcher

2021

2021

A Mouthful of Air

as Dr. Sylvester

1998

Doctor Dolittle

as Blaine (uncredited)

2023

The Holdovers

as Paul Hunham

2019

2021

2025

2015

Goldfish

as Goldfish (voice)

1997

A Further Gesture

as Hotel Clerk

1996

Before and After

as Courtroom Audience (uncredited)

Production

2013

John Dies at the End

as Executive Producer

2019

Wax Paul Now

as Thanks

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