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Mandel Bruce Patinkin was born on the 30th of November, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Kenwood High School, University of Kansas and Juilliard School of Drama. His first real break in to show business was when he played Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979, a role for which he went on to win a Tony Award.



After this initial musical theater success he moved to film, playing a number of small parts in movies such as Yentl and Ragtime, before returning to Broadway in 1984 to star in Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination. Over the next decade he appeared in movies such as Dick Tracy and Alien Nation amongst others, and in The Secret Garden on Broadway. He has shown amazing vocal talent from a young age and has released two solo albums, ‘Mandy Patinkin’ and ‘Dress Casual’.



In 1994, he burst onto the small screen playing the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS’s Chicago Hope and promptly won an Emmy Award. However despite the award and the ratings success of the show Patinkin left the show part way through the second season. Since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has taken parts in a number of films and has released three further albums. He also returned to Broadway in 2000 to perform in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s ‘The Wild Party’, earning another Tony Award nomination. Recently he has also been seen in the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me. As of 2005, he takes the leading role in the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds as the unconventional Special Agent Jason Gideon.



Mandy has been happily married to author/actress Kathryn Grody since 1980, and they have two sons together named Isaac and Gideon.