F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham;[1][2] October 24, 1939)[3] is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning an Oscar for his leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984). Abraham also won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA Award nomination for the role.

F. Murray Abraham
Abraham in 2008
Born	October 24, 1939 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–present
Spouse(s)	Kate Hannan ​ (m. after 1962)​
Children	2

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), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Finding Forrester (2000), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Abraham is also known for his television and theatre work and was a regular cast member on the Showtime drama series Homeland, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Abraham voiced characters in Isle of Dogs (2018) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). He currently stars in the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet.

Early life

Abraham was born Murray Abraham on October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Fahrid "Fred" Abraham,[4] an auto mechanic, and his wife Josephine (née Stello) (April 15, 1915 – March 10, 2012),[5] a housewife.[3][6] His father emigrated with his family from Ottoman Syria at age five due to the famine of Mount Lebanon;[7] his paternal grandfather was a priest in the Antiochian Orthodox Church[3][8][9] His mother, one of 14 children, was Italian American, and the daughter of an Italian immigrant who worked in the coal mines of Western Pennsylvania.[3] He had two younger brothers, Robert and Jack, who were killed in separate car accidents.[4]

Abraham was raised in El Paso, Texas, near the Mexican border. Murray and his two younger brothers were altar boys in the St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in El Paso.[8][9] He attended Vilas Grammar School, and graduated from El Paso High School in 1958.[10] He was a gang member during his teenage years.[3] In El Paso, Abraham worked in the Farah Clothing factory owned by a Lebanese family before launching a career in acting.[11] He attended Texas Western College (later named University of Texas at El Paso), where he was given the best actor award by Alpha Psi Omega for his portrayal of the Indian Nocona in Comanche Eagle during the 1959–60 season. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, then studied acting under Uta Hagen at HB Studio[12] in New York City. He began his acting career on the stage, debuting in a Los Angeles production of Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

Abraham added "F." to his stage name in honor of his father Fahrid.[13] He has stated that "Murray Abraham just doesn't seem to say anything. It just is another name, so I thought I'd frame it."[2]

Career

Film and television

Abraham made his screen debut as an usher in the George C. Scott comedy They Might Be Giants (1971). He can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico (1973), and in television roles including the bad guy in one fourth-season episode of Kojak ("The Godson"). He played a cabdriver in the theatrical version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys (1975), and a police officer in the film All the President's Men (1976).

By the mid-1970s, he also had steady employment doing commercials and voice-overs. Most notably, he played "the leaf", one of four costumed characters, in television and print commercials for Fruit of the Loom underwear.[14] However, in 1978, he decided to give up this work. Frustrated with the lack of substantial roles, Abraham said, "No one was taking my acting seriously. I figured if I didn't do it, then I'd have no right to the dreams I've always had." His wife, Kate Hannan, went to work as an assistant and Abraham became a "house husband". As he described it, "I cooked and cleaned and took care of the kids. It was very rough on my macho idea of life. But it was the best thing that ever happened to me."[14]

Abraham gained greater prominence when he appeared as drug dealer Omar Suárez in the gangster film Scarface (1983). Then, in 1984, he played envious composer Antonio Salieri in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning Amadeus (1984), directed by Miloš Forman. Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role, an award for which his co-star in the film Tom Hulce, playing Mozart, had also been nominated. He also won a Golden Globe Award, among other awards, and his role in the film remains his most iconic.

He next appeared in The Name of the Rose (1986), in which he played Bernardo Gui, nemesis to Sean Connery's William of Baskerville. In its DVD commentary, the director of the film, Jean-Jacques Annaud, described Abraham as an "egomaniac" on the set, who considered himself more important than Sean Connery because Connery did not have an Oscar.[15] Despite the on-set tensions, the film was a critical[16] and commercial success.

After the release of The Name of the Rose, Abraham stated in an interview that he had tired of appearing as villains and wanted to return to his background in comedy.[17] Over the next decade or so, Abraham had fewer prominent roles, but he did have substantial supporting roles in Peter Yates' An Innocent Man (1989), Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Ahdar Ru'afo in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester (2000), where he again played the nemesis to Connery. He had a significant role in Brian De Palma's adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), but chose not to be credited due to a contract dispute.[3] He continued his association with classical music by narrating the plot summaries of the operas of Wagner's Ring Cycle in the 1990 PBS broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, to the largest viewing audience of the Ring Cycle in history, conducted by James Levine.

Abraham's relatively low-profile film career subsequent to his Academy Award win has been considered an example of the "Oscar jinx." According to film critic Leonard Maltin, professional failure following an early success is referred to in Hollywood circles as the "F. Murray Abraham syndrome."[18] Abraham rejected this notion and told Maltin, "The Oscar is the single most important event of my career. I have dined with kings, shared equal billing with my idols, lectured at Harvard and Columbia. If this is a jinx, I'll take two." In the same interview, Abraham said, "Even though I won the Oscar, I can still take the subway in New York, and nobody recognizes me. Some actors might find that disconcerting, but I find it refreshing."

A 2009 guest appearance on Saving Grace began a new phase of Abraham's career, wherein he has become gradually more prolific onscreen. Further guest appearances include roles on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Louie and Curb Your Enthusiasm as well as a recurring role on The Good Wife between 2011 and 2014. Additionally, Abraham was the primary narrator for the PBS series Nature between 2007 and 2010, narrating 32 episodes (plus one more in 2013). Abraham's most notable television role came about through Showtime's drama series Homeland, in which he portrayed black ops specialist Dar Adal. This role resulted in his first Emmy Award nomination in 2015, followed by a second in 2018.

In the 2010s, he featured prominently in two widely acclaimed films: first as folk music impresario Bud Grossman in the Coen brothers' drama Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), then as the mysterious Mr. Moustafa in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). More recently, he has voiced roles in Isle of Dogs (2018) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) and played Tony in the 2019 live-action Lady and the Tramp.

Theater

Abraham (last full figure on right) onstage at the end of a December 2014 production of It's Only a Play

Since Amadeus, he has mainly focused on classical theatre, and has starred in many Shakespearean productions such as Othello and Richard III. He was highlighted in many other plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett and Gilbert and Sullivan, and played the lead in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (for which he received an Obie Award).

Abraham has focused on stage work throughout his career, giving notable performances as Pozzo in Mike Nichols's production of Waiting for Godot, Malvolio in Twelfth Night for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice for the Off-Broadway Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) in March 2007, which was performed at the Duke Theatre in New York and also at the Swan Theatre, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He reprised this role in February 2011, when he replaced Al Pacino in the Public Theater's production. In the 1997/98 Broadway season, he starred in the new chamber musical Triumph of Love opposite Betty Buckley, based on Marivaux's classic comedy. The production did not find a large audience, running 85 performances after its pre-opening preview period.[19] He has also taught theater at Brooklyn College.[20] In 2016, he played the title role in Classic Stage Company's production of Nathan the Wise.[21]

Abraham also joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company in 1984. He joined MRC the week after winning his Oscar for Best Actor for his work in Amadeus because he wanted to work with MRC Artist-in-Residence Geraldine Page (to whom he would eventually present her own Academy Award the following year), and would star opposite her in MRC's The Madwoman of Chaillot.[22]

In 1994, Abraham portrayed Roy Cohn in the first Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Walter Kerr Theater, replacing Ron Leibman in the role.

Personal life

Abraham has been married to Kate Hannan since 1962; they have two children,[23] Mick and Jamili, and one grandchild, Hannan.[24]

In January 2010, Abraham was the on-the-scene hero of a real-life crime scene at the Classic Stage Company in New York City, when he scuffled with a thief in the dressing room area during a public rehearsal.[25]

Abraham has spoken about his faith: "I've attended many churches. I grew up as an Orthodox Christian and I was an altar boy. I love the Society of Friends, the Quakers. I attended their meetings for almost fifteen years. I'm now [in 2008] attending the First Presbyterian Church of New York because they're such a generous, terrific church with outreach. They reach out to old people, to homeless, to A.A., to cross-dressers; it's truly a church of the teachings of Christ. Religion is essential to my life."[26]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	They Might Be Giants	Clyde
1973	Serpico	Serpico's partner	Uncredited
1975	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Taxi driver
1975	The Sunshine Boys	Car mechanic
1976	All the President's Men	Paul Leeper
1976	The Ritz	Chris
1978	The Big Fix	Eppis
1983	Scarface	Omar Suárez
1984	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri
1986	The Name of the Rose	Bernardo Gui
1988	The Third Solution	Father Carafa
1989	Slipstream	Cornelius
1989	Beyond the Stars	Dr. Harry Bertram
1989	The Favorite	Abdul Hamid
1989	An Innocent Man	Virgil Cane
1990	Cadence	Capt. Ramon Garcia	Uncredited
1990	The Battle of the Three Kings	Osrain
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	D.A. Abe Weiss	Uncredited
1991	Mobsters	Arnold Rothstein
1991	Money	Will Scarlet
1991	By the Sword	Max Suba
1991	Eye of the Widow	Kharoun
1992	Through an Open Window	Narrator	Short film
1993	National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon	Dr. Harold Leacher
1993	Sweet Killing	Zargo
1993	Last Action Hero	Detective John Practice
1994	Fresh	Chess Hustler	Uncredited
1994	L'Affaire	Lucien Haslans
1994	Surviving the Game	Wolfe Sr.
1994	Nostradamus	Scalinger
1995	Mighty Aphrodite	Leader
1996	Children of the Revolution	Joseph Stalin
1997	Mimic	Dr. Gates
1997	Una vacanza all'inferno	Belisario
1997	Eruption	President Mendoza
1998	Star Trek: Insurrection	Ahdar Ru'afo
1999	Muppets from Space	Noah	Cameo
1999	The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy	Henry Covington
2000	Finding Forrester	Prof. Robert Crawford
2000	David Proshker	Narrator	Short film
2001	The Knights of the Quest	Delfinello da Coverzano
2001	Thir13en Ghosts	Cyrus Kristicos
2002	The Hire	Airport Guru	Segment: The Ticker
2002	Joshua	Father Tardone
2003	Five Moons Square	The Entity
2003	Rua Alguem 5555: My Father	Paul Minsky
2004	Another Way of Seeing Things	Narrator	Short film
2004	Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers	Jeffrey
2004	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Viceroy of Peru
2006	The Stone Merchant	Shahid
2006	Quiet Flows the Don	Pantaley
2006	The Inquiry	Nathan
2007	Wine and Kisses	Ruggero
2007	Blood Monkey	Professor Hamilton	Direct-to-DVD
2008	Carnera: The Walking Mountain	Léon Sée
2008	A House Divided	Grandfather Wahid
2009	Perestroika	Prof. Gross
2009	Barbarossa	Siniscalco Barozzi
2010	The Unseen World	John Henry Newman
2012	Goltzius and the Pelican Company	The Margrave of Alsace
2012	September Eleven 1683	Father Marco d'Aviano
2013	Dead Man Down	Gregor
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bud Grossman
2013	The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die	Braque
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Mr. Moustafa
2014	The Mystery of Dante	Dante Alter Ego
2014	The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683	Marco d'Aviano
2014	A Little Game	Norman Wallach
2018	Isle of Dogs	Jupiter	Voice
2018	Robin Hood	Cardinal
2019	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Grimmel[27]	Voice
2019	Lady and the Tramp	Tony
2021	Things Heard and Seen	Floyd DeBeers	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	How to Survive a Marriage	Joshua Browne
1975, 1977	Kojak	Solly Nurse / Eddie Gordon	2 episodes
1976	All in the Family	Clerk	Episode: "The Unemployment Story: Part 1"
1977	A.E.S. Hudson Street	Dr. Menzies	Aired pilot; replaced by Gregory Sierra
1977	The Andros Targets	Bobby Carr	Episode: "The Killing of a Porno Queen"
1977	Sex and the Married Woman	Duke Skaggs	Television film
1982–83	Marco Polo	Jacopo	6 episodes
1986	Dream West	Abraham Lincoln	2 episodes
1989	The Betrothed	Innominato	2 episodes
1990	A Season of Giants	Pope Julius II	Television film
1992	The First Circle	Joseph Stalin	Television film
1993	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Professor Harlech	Television film
1993	Il caso Dozier	Goldstein	Television film
1996	Dead Man's Walk	Captain Caleb Cobb	Television miniseries
1999	Excellent Cadavers	Tommaso Buscetta	Television film
1999	Esther	Mordechai	Television film
2000	The Darkling	Bruno Rubin	Television film
2000	ill it Un dono semplice	Thomas Barlow	Television film
2003	Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites	Narrator	Television documentary
2003	Pompeii: The Last Day	Narrator	Television documentary
2005	NOVA - Newton's Dark Secrets	Narrator	Television documentary
2007	In the Valley of the Wolves	Narrator	Television documentary
2008	Shark Swarm	Bill Girdler	Television film
2008	The Wolf That Changed America	Narrator	Television documentary
2009	Saving Grace	Matthew	Episode: "What Would You Do?"
2010	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Dr. Theodore Nichols	Episode: "Three-In-One"
2010	Bored to Death	Professor Richard Hawkes	Episode: "I've Been Living Like a Demented God!"
2011–14	The Good Wife	Burl Preston	4 episodes
2011, 2012, 2014	Louie	John Uncle Excelsior Louie's dad	Episode: "New Jersey/Airport" Episode: "Dad" Episode: "In the Woods - Pt 2"
2012	Blue Bloods	Leon Goodwin	Episode: "The Job"
2012–18	Homeland	Dar Adal	39 episodes
2013	Do No Harm	Cozar	Episode: "Six Feet Deep"
2013	Elementary	Daniel Gottlieb	Episode: "A Landmark Story"
2016	Inside Amy Schumer	Diplomat	Episode: "Madame President"
2017	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Himself	Episode: "Fatwa!"
2018	The Good Fight	Burl Preston	Episode: "Day 436"
2019	The Orville	Council Chairman	Episode: "Sanctuary"
2019	Chimerica	Frank Sams	4 episodes
2020–present	Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet	C.W. Longbottom	8 episodes

Theatre

F. Murray Abraham Broadway work

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1968–69	The Man in the Glass Booth	Tzelniker-Rudin	Royale Theatre, Broadway
1972	6 Rms Riv Vu	The Expectant Father	Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway
1974	Ravenswood	Roy Pitt	Booth Theatre, Broadway
1974	Dunelawn	Mr. Blum	Booth Theatre, Broadway
1975–76	The Ritz	Chris	Longacre Theatre, Broadway
1976	Legend	Jesse Lymburner	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
1979–80	Teibele and Her Demon	Alchonon	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
1986–87	Macbeth	Macbeth	Belasco Theatre, Broadway
1994	Angels in America	Roy Cohn (replacement)	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
1995	A Month in the Country	Ignaty Illyich Shpichelsky	Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway
1997–98	Triumph of Love	Hermocrates	Royale Theatre, Broadway
2007	Mauritius	Sterling	The Biltmore Theatre, Broadway
2014–15	It's Only a Play	Ira Drew	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway

F. Murray Abraham off-Broadway work

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1960	The Fantasticks	The Actor (Henry)	Sullivan Street Playhouse, Off-Broadway
1969	Tonight in Living Color	Jonathan	Actors' Playhouse, Off-Broadway
1971	The Survival of St. Joan	Performer	Anderson Theatre, Off-Broadway
1971	Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?	The Men	Eastside Playhouse, Broadway
1974	Bad Habits	Roy Pitt/Mr. Blum	Astor Place Theatre, Off-Broadway
1976	Sexual Perversity in Chicago The Duck Variations	Bernard Litko	Cherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway
1977	Landscape of the Body	Capt. Holahan	The Public Theater, Off-Broadway
1978	The Master and Margarita	Performer	The Public Theater, Off-Broadway
1980	The Seagull	Dorn	The Public Theater, Off-Broadway
1982	The Caretaker	Davies	23rd Street Theatre, Off-Broadway
1982	Antigone	Creon	The Public Theater, Off-Broadway
1983–84	Uncle Vanya	Astrov
1984	The Golem	Rebbi	Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway
1985	The Madwoman of Chaillot	Ragpicker	Theatre at St. Peter's Church, Off-Broadway
1986	Twelfth Night	Malvolio	Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway
1987	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Nick Bottom	The Public Theater, Off-Broadway
1988	Waiting for Godot	Pozzo	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Off-Broadway
1992	A Life in the Theatre	Robert	Jewish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway
1996	King Lear	Lear	The Public Theater, Off-Broadway
2003	Trumbo: Red White and Blacklisted	Dalton Trumbo	Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway
2006	An Oak Tree	Father	Barrow Street Theatre, Off-Broadway
2007	The Jew of Malta	Barabas	The Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway
2007	The Merchant of Venice	Shylock	The Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway
2008	Almost an Evening	Control/God Who Judges	Bleeker Street Theatre, Off-Broadway
2009	Offices	Cassady/Bum	Linda Gross Theater, Off-Broadway
2011	The Merchant of Venice	Shylock	National Tour
2012	Galileo	Galileo	Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway
2012	The Golden Age	Gioacchino Rossini	New York City Center, Off-Broadway
2014	The Threepenny Opera	Mr. Peachum	Linda Gross Theatre, Off-Broadway
2016	White Rabbit Red Rabbit	Performer	Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway
2016	Nathan the Wise	Nathan	Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway
2018	Good for Otto	Barnard	Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway

F. Murray Abraham West End work

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1996	Tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy	Aldwych Theatre
2017	The Mentor	Benjamin Rubin	Vaudeville Theatre

Awards and nominations

Theatre

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1980	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actor in a Play	Teibele and Her Demon	Nominated
1984	Obie Award	Best Performance	Uncle Vanya	Won
1992	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actor in a Play	A Life in the Theatre	Nominated
2011	Obie Award	Sustained Excellence of Performance	The Merchant of Venice	Won[28]
2015	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play	It's Only a Play	Nominated

Film

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1985	Academy Award	Best Actor	Amadeus	Won
1985	Golden Globe Award	Best Actor - Drama		Won
1986	British Academy Film Awards	Best Actor		Nominated
1985	LAFCA	Best Actor		Won
1985	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award	Best Actor		Won
1985	Albert Schweitzer Award	Classic Film Acting		Won
2015	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Cast - Motion Picture	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Nominated
2015	Georgia Film Critics Association	Best Ensemble		Won
2015	Southern Film Critics Association	Best Ensemble		Won
2015	Phoenix Film Critics Association	Best Ensemble Acting		Nominated
2015	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Ensemble		Nominated
2015	Washington D.C. Film Critics Association	Best Acting Ensemble		Nominated
2015	Central Ohio Film Critics	Best Ensemble		Won
2015	Detroit Film Critics Society	Best Ensemble		Won

Television

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2015	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series	Homeland	Nominated
2018				Nominated
2014	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Ensemble - Drama Series		Nominated
2016				Nominated

Audio recording

• 1987: Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Interview with the Vampire - Nominated

Honors

In July 2004, during a ceremony in Rome, he was awarded the "Premio per gli Italiani nel Mondo". This is a prize distributed by the Marzio Tremaglia foundation and the Italian government to Italian emigrants and their descendants who have distinguished themselves abroad.

In 2009, he was recognized by the Alumni Association of the City College of New York with John H. Finley Award in recognition of exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York.

In 2010, Abraham was the recipient of The Gielgud Award (Theatre) for that year.[29]

In 2015, Abraham was an inductee to the American Theater Hall of Fame.[30]

He also has an honorary doctorate from Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

References

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External links

• F. Murray Abraham at IMDb
• F. Murray Abraham at the Internet Broadway Database
• F. Murray Abraham at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• F. Murray Abraham at the TCM Movie Database
• F. Murray Abraham at AllMovie
• Yahoo! Movies Biography
• F. Murray Abraham at IMG Artists