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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-10-24 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

F. Murray Abraham

Biography:

F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he came to prominence for his acclaimed leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama as well as a BAFTA Award nomination.

Abraham made his Broadway debut in the 1968 play Man in the Glass Booth. He received the Obie Award for Outstanding Performance for his roles in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1984) and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2011). He returned to Broadway in the revival of Terrence McNally's comedy It's Only a Play (2014) receiving a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play nomination.

He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men (1976), Scarface (1983), The Name of the Rose (1986), Last Action Hero (1993), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Dillinger and Capone (1995), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Finding Forrester (2000), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).

He was a regular cast member on the Showtime drama series Homeland (2012–2018), which earned him two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He also starred in Mythic Quest (2020–2021), Moon Knight (2022), and The White Lotus (2022) with the latter earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

Mother, Couch as Marcus / Marco

2023

Double Soul as Mentor
White House Plumbers as Judge John Sirica

2022

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Magic Flute as Dr. Longbow
Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice)

2021

Things Heard & Seen as Floyd DeBeers
The White Lotus as Bert Di Grasso

2020

Mythic Quest as C.W. Longbottom

2019

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail as Ayatollah (archive footage)
Chimerica as Frank Sams

2018

The Letter as Narrator
Super Cats as Narrator (voice)
Isle of Dogs as Jupiter (voice)
Robin Hood as Cardinal

2017

The Good Fight as Burl Preston
Road to 9/11 as Himself - Narrator
The Orville as Chairman

2015

2014

2013

2012

The Unseen World as John Henry Newman
Elementary as Daniel Gottlieb

2011

Is That Skunk? as Narrator
Homeland as Dar Adal

2010

2009

Perestroika as Professor Gross
Barbarossa as Siniscalco Barozzi
The Good Wife as Burl Preston

2008

A House Divided as Grandfather Wahid
Shark Swarm as Professor Bill Girdler
Ballerina as Goran

2007

2006

2004

2003

2002

Joshua as Father Tardone
Ticker as Airport Guru
The Making of 'Amadeus' as Self - Salieri

2001

Knights of the Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano
Thir13en Ghosts as Cyrus Kriticos
Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Theodore Nichols
The Hire as Airport Guru

2000

Finding Forrester as Robert Crawford
The Darkling as Bruno Rubin

1999

Esther as Mordechai
Excellent Cadavers as Tommaso Buscetta
Noah's Ark as Lot

1998

1997

Mimic as Dr. Gates
Einstein Revealed as Narrator
Eruption as President Mendoza
Color of Justice as Jim Sullivan
Vacation in Hell as Belisario

1996

Children of the Revolution as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Baby Face Nelson as Al Capone
Dead Man's Walk as Caleb Cobb

1995

Mighty Aphrodite as Chorleiter

1994

Surviving the Game as Wolfe Sr.
Nostradamus as Scalinger
L'Affaire as Lucien Haslans
Fresh as Chess Hustler
Jamila as Older Seit

1993

Last Action Hero as John Practice
Sweet Killing as Zargo

1992

1991

By the Sword as Suba
Money as Will Scarlet
Mobsters as Arnold Rothstein
Eye of the Widow as Kharoun

1990

The Bonfire of the Vanities as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
The Little Match Girl as Narrator (voice)
Largo Desolato as Professor Leopold Nettles
A Season of Giants as Papa Giulio II
Cadence as Capt. Ramon Garcia
Drums of Fire as Osrain

1989

Slipstream as Cornelius
An Innocent Man as Virgil Cane
The Favorite as Abdul Hamid
Beyond the Stars as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
I promessi sposi as l'Innominato

1988

The Third Solution as Father Carafa
Il Trovatore as Self - Host
The Great San Francisco Earthquake as Self - Narrator (voice)
American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice)

1987

1986

1985

1984

Amadeus as Antonio Salieri

1983

Scarface as Omar

1982

Nature as Narrator (voice)
Marco Polo as Jacopo

1978

1977

The Andros Targets as Bobby Carr

1976

The Ritz as Chris
All the President's Men as Arresting Officer #1

1975

1974

NOVA as Narrator

1973

Serpico as Detective Partner (uncredited)
Kojak as Solly Nurse
Kojak as Eddie Gordon

1971

They Might Be Giants as Clyde (the usher)

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Bookends as Saul Cohen