Profile of Peter Gallagher on Famous Like Me

Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955 in Armonk, New York) is an American actor of Irish Catholic descent, first becoming famous for his role in Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). He currently stars as the pater familias Sandy Cohen, a public defender and corporate lawyer, on the Fox television show The O.C.. He has recently become quite well-known, as his trademark is his large bushy eyebrows. He now hosts an annual award ceremony named "The Sandy Cohen Awards", or The Sandys, which in honor of his character now give a scholarship to a law school student at UC Berkeley who wants to become a public defender. He is a graduate of Tufts University.

Gallagher also specializes in character parts of varying degrees both good or bad guys. He played a potential career threat to Tim Robbins studio executive in The Player as a possible replacement; the coma-induced "fiancee" of Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping; an egotistical real estate salesman having an affair with Annette Bening in American Beauty; and a villainous media executive in Mr. Deeds, in one of the film's more inspired moments when a game of tennis turns into a full tennis ball assault on his head.

Partial filmography

• The O.C. (2003)
• How to Deal (2003)
• Mr. Deeds (2002)
• Center Stage (2000)
• American Beauty (1999)
• The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
• To Gillian on her 37th Birthday (1996)
• Titanic (TV) (1996)
• While You Were Sleeping (1995)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
• The Player (1992)
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
• Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987)
• Summer Lovers (1982)

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