Oliver Platt

Canadian actor Oliver Platt grew up traveling the world due to his father's position as a diplomat. Platt has appeared in many films, including Frost/Nixon, 2012, Flatliners, The Three Musketeers and Bulworth.

As of March 2009, Oliver platt was performing alongside Lauren Graham in a broadway revival of Guys and Dolls.Entertainment Weekly: Guys and Dolls (February 2009)

• "I've grown up with Watergate. I think I was 12 when Nixon resigned. But I grew up with the specter and the aura of it. But in drilling down in the research, I realized there was so much I didn't know about it, even though I've seen All the President's Men about 90 times."—Oliver PlattAintItCool News: Oliver Platt in the Hot Seat About Frost/Nixon (December 1, 2008)

• "I really just do what interests me, and I consider myself very lucky that I can count on one hand the number of movies I've done because I've needed a job. I'm incredibly lucky."—Oliver PlattAintItCool News: Oliver Platt in the Hot Seat About Frost/Nixon (December 1, 2008)

• "And 2012, what can I say? It's Roland Emmerich, all guns blazing. We know what's going to happen: the world is going to end in four years and that's a really interesting moral question. Who do you tell? Who do you save? What do you do?"—Oliver PlattAintItCool News: Oliver Platt in the Hot Seat About Frost/Nixon (December 1, 2008)

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• January 12, 1960: Born

• 1988: Working Girl

• 1992: Beethoven

• 1993: Indecent Proposal

• 1996: A Time to Kill

• 1998: Doctor Dolittle

• 1999: Lake Placid

• 1999: Bicentennial Man

• 2001: Don't Say a Word

• 2003 - 2007: "Queens Supreme"

• 2004 - 2006: Huff

• 2005: The Ice Harvest

• 2007: The Ten

• 2007: Martian Child

• 2008: Frost/Nixon