F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham has appeared in more than 80 films including Amadeus, for which he received the Academy Award® for Best Actor, as well as Golden Globe® and L.A. Film Critics Awards. Mr. Abraham starred in the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus, for which he received an Emmy® and Golden Globe® nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Previously, he was a series regular on Homeland (two Emmy® nominations), and has hundreds of other television performances to his name.
A veteran of the stage, F. Murray Abraham has appeared in more than 90 plays, among them Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (Obie Award), Trumbo, Standup Shakespeare, the Italian tour of Notturno Pirandelliano, Susan Stroman’s A Christmas Carol, the musical Triumph Of Love, the title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Macbeth, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice in rep with The Jew of Malta which he did at Stratford on Avon with the RSC, Angels In America (Broadway), Arthur Miller’s last play The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Waiting For Godot, The Caretaker, The Ritz, Sexual Perversity In Chicago, Duck Variations, A Life In The Theatre, The Threepenny Opera, and in Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play (Drama Desk Award nomination). He made his LA debut in Ray Bradbury’s The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and his NY debut as a Macy’s Santa Claus, followed soon thereafter to Broadway in The Man In The Glass Booth, directed by Harold Pinter.
Mr. Abraham’s book A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Actors On Shakespeare, is published by Faber & Faber. He is proud to be the spokesman for The MultiFaith Alliance.
Other honors include The Moscow Art Theatre Stanislavski Award, The Sir John Gielgud Award for Excellence in Shakespeare, Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a member of The New York Theater Hall of Fame.