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Mandy is a master actor! Can you believe I watched The Princess Bride - 1987 Movie HUNDREDS of times and never once realised he was the same guy in another show I watched, OR he was the guy in criminal minds!

Below are my 2 favorite roles of his (other than criminal minds)

The Princess Bride - 1987 - Inigo Montoya


Alien Nation (1988 - Movie) .... Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco

I just found something that said Mandy has a son named Gideon!!! lol

lol I know!

Biography for Mandy Patinkin

Date of Birth
30 November 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth Name
Mandel Bruce Patinkin

Nickname
The Patink

Height
6' 0¾" (1.85 m)

Spouse
Kathryn Grody (15 June 1980 - present) 2 children

Trivia

1970 graduate of Kenwood High School, Chicago

Acted in very first commercial for Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats; commercial filmed in Chicago's Loop.

Had left cornea replaced due to degenerative eye disease (keratoconus) [November 1998]

Had right cornea replaced due to degenerative eye disease [May 1997]

Has sons, Isaac and Gideon

Occasional appearances on "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) on CBS-TV. His most memorable performances were with Tony Randall, who accompanied him pretending to have had a taxi breakdown and therefore needing an emergency rehearsal hall. Mandy then brings down the house with "Swanee", "Mammy", etc.

Was not asked to reprise his Tony award winning role of 'Che' in the movie version of Evita (1996).

Attended the University of Kansas for two years before being "discovered."

Mandy does concerts for the gun control advocacy group, Pax, and for Doctors Without Borders, a group that provides medical relief in violence-torn areas such as Darfur, Lebanon, and many other developing countries.

Mandy's mother is Doralee Patinkin Rubin, a cookbook author, who is to have her own cooking show on the Food Network.

Portrayed a spirit from the '50s in a 7-Up ad for his first TV commercial in 1970. Also played the lead in the very first TV commercial for Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats.

Won Broadway's 1980 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for playing Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in "Evita." He was also nominated twice as Best Actor (Musical): in 1984 for "Sunday in the Park with George," a role he recreated in the television version with the same title, _Sunday in the Park with George (1986) (TV)' , and in 2000 for "The Wild Party."

Says that of all the roles he's played in his career, "Inigo Montoya", from The Princess Bride (1987) is his absolute favourite.

He is a lover/collector of Lionel model trains and he continues to enjoy playing with them to this day. He considers the concept of hanging on to such "classic" influential toys from the past very important to pass down to future generations.

Did an interview for a 1987 The Princess Bride (1987) featurette pretending to have worse English than the character he was playing (a Spaniard). In reality, he's American, born and bred.

In 2000 he released a CD entitled Kidults featuring childrens songs among others.

Before he and Adam Arkin starred as doctors on the television show, "Chicago Hope" (1994), they both played doctors in the movie, The Doctor (1991).

Attended North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston Salem, NC). Studied drama.

It is, and did you notice in the article he did an interview pretending to have worsh accent than in the movie! I think that is awesome and totaly something he would do! That is so funny rofl rofl