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Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony Award (Best Actor, 1991, I Hate Hamlet) as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards (Ensemble, Chicago Hope), and a DGA Award ( My Louisiana Sky). In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. He is also one of the three actors to portray Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck on Monk. Between 2007 and 2009, he starred in Life. Beginning in 1990, he had a recurring guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy and Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005). His brother Matthew Arkin is also an actor, as was his father, Alan Arkin.
Arkin's film appearances include (1998) and Hitch (2005). He also played the part of a divorce lawyer in A Serious Man (2009), directed by Coen brothers.
Arkin has also done voice acting. He played a minor role in the radio dramatization of Star Wars as the voice of Fixer. For PBS, he voiced Meriwether Lewis in Ken Burns's (1997). He also provided character voice work for the Emmy-winning series .
He has performed in Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, including Brooklyn Boy by playwright Donald Margulies in both its South Coast Repertory world premiere and the Broadway production).
In addition, he is known for his directing work, including episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, The Riches, Dirt, Ally McBeal, Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Justified, and Masters of Sex. He won an Emmy for directing the Showtime television film My Louisiana Sky. He also directed three episodes of the 2013 Cold War television drama The Americans, the final episode of the second season (2014) of Masters of Sex, and the final two episodes of the critically acclaimed second season of Fargo (2015), in which he also had a minor role.
He is a co-executive producer of the television series Get Shorty.
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| Nominated—Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast |
| Television film |
| Television film |
| Episode: "Family Portrait" | |
| Episode: "Grand Hotel" | |
| Episode: "Portrait of a Murder" | |
| Episode: "A Touch of Guilt" | |
| Episode: "10 January 1978" | |
| 3 episodes | |
| Episode: "Salvaged Romance" | |
| Episode: "Past Perfect" | |
| 6 episodes | |
| Episode: "The Invisible Killer" | |
| Episode: "Love, Death, and the Whole Damn Thing" | |
| Episode: "Dream of the Wolf" | |
| 6 episodes | |
| Episode: "The Two Hundredth" Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | |
| 3 episodes | |
| Episode: "To Serve with Love" | |
| 3 episodes | |
| 3 episodes; also director (2 episodes) | |
| Episode: "Man Shouldn't Lie" | |
| Episode: "Maxine's Dad" | |
| Episode: "Bonnie & Clyde" | |
| Season 21, Episode 8: "We Dream of Machine Elves" | |
| Director; episodes: "File #7"/"File #10" | |
| 3 episodes | |
| Director; 4 episodes | |
| 2025 | Director; 2 episodes; also executive producer (season 2) |
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