Tony Goldwyn's Real Name: Tony Goldwyn

Quick answer: The actor and director is known professionally as Tony Goldwyn. TV Guide and the Internet Broadway Database independently list Los Angeles, California, as his birthplace. A longer name listed by TV Guide, and a precise birth date listed by the Internet Broadway Database, are not each independently confirmed here by a second independent publisher, so this page titles him under the public name and does not treat the exact date as settled in the summary.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers identify him under the professional name Tony Goldwyn. TV Guide lists the birth name Anthony Howard Goldwyn and the birthplace as Los Angeles, California, and says he earned a BFA at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. The Internet Broadway Database independently lists a May 20, 1960, birth date and Los Angeles, California, as the birthplace, and identifies him as the son of Jennifer Howard and a grandson of Frances Howard and of playwright Sidney Howard. The Television Academy, in an October 9, 2014, feature, independently calls him a Los Angeles native and the grandson of film producer Samuel Goldwyn and the son of producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. The longer name rests on the TV Guide listing, and the exact date rests on the Internet Broadway Database listing.

Career highlights

TV Guide says his debut film role was in Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI, and that one of his best-remembered characters is the duplicitous figure in Ghost; the same entry records an Obie Award in 1991 for The Sum of Us. The Television Academy independently identifies that Ghost role as Carl Bruner in the 1990 film, and says Goldwyn later played President Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant on the ABC series Scandal. In that 2014 interview he said fans had told him they had "finally forgiven you for Sam Wheat because I love Fitz," referring to Patrick Swayze's character, whom Carl Bruner kills in the film. The Internet Broadway Database independently records Broadway credits including Holiday (1995–96), Promises, Promises (2010–11), Network (2018–19), and The Inheritance (2020). The Television Academy also notes later work as a director and executive producer, including the series The Divide.

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Tony Goldwyn are looking for the same actor and director. This page uses the public professional name.