Paul Adelstein

 ( 20th-century American Male Actors ) 

Paul Adelstein (born April 29, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the Fox television series Prison Break and his role as pediatrician Cooper Freedman in the ABC medical drama Private Practice. In addition to supporting roles in films such as Intolerable Cruelty and Memoirs of a Geisha, he is also known for his recurring role as Leo Bergen on ABC's Scandal and as Jake Novak in the Bravo television series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce. He also played David Sweetzer on the short-lived NBC comedy I Feel Bad.

Adelstein co-created the dark comedy TV series Imposters, which aired on Bravo and ran for two 10-episode seasons from 2017 and 2018; he is credited as a writer on 6 episodes. He also played the role of Shelley Cohen on that show.

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Early life Adelstein was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Reform Jewish family. Prior to his professional acting career, Adelstein attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School, then Bowdoin College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a degree in English. Meet the cast - Paul Adelstein . Yahoo!7. Retrieved on January 14, 2006. He began his career in theatre, working with New Crime Productions, a company founded by John Cusack, and later with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

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Career After making his film debut in the film, The Grifters (1990), Adelstein went on to appear in several television series, including Cupid, ER, Without a Trace, and Scrubs, and to play a number of significant supporting roles in films such as Bedazzled (2000), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and Be Cool (2005).

In 2005, he received his most significant role to date as a member of the regular cast of the suspenseful television series Prison Break. Although he played the role of mysterious government operative Paul Kellerman, he had originally auditioned for the role of protagonist Lincoln Burrows. When he left the show in 2007, he joined the regular cast of the medical drama Private Practice and stayed for the show's entire six-season run. After the series finale in 2013, he had more recently a recurring role as Leo Bergen on Scandal, which continued into 2018.

He played the main role of Jake Novak, the husband of Abby McCarthy (Lisa Edelstein) in Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, which premiered in late 2014 as the first scripted original series for Bravo. In April 2016, he was cast as Raymond Blackstone in the Hulu series Chance, starring Hugh Laurie.

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Music career Adelstein is the lead singer and guitarist of a band called Doris. The band was started in the late 1990s, and Adelstein has recorded several albums with them, singing and songwriting for the group. Adelstein is also a pianist and guitarist. His musical background was the cover story in the May/June 2012 issue of Making Music Magazine.

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Personal life Adelstein moved to Los Angeles in 2003, at the age of 34. Despite hailing from Chicago, Adelstein has been a fan and supporter since childhood of the NFL's Cleveland Browns.

Adelstein married actress Liza Weil in a Reform Jewish ceremony, in November 2006. They had previously known each other through theatrical projects. The two went on to appear together in three film projects: the short film Order Up (2007), the Gregory Dark-helmed Frenemy (2008), and The Missing Person. She also appeared in an episode of Private Practice (airdate February 24, 2011), "Private Practice" Two Steps Back (TV episode 2011) - IMDb . Retrieved March 20, 2011. although she and Adelstein had no scenes together. Weil gave birth to their daughter in April 2010. Weil filed for divorce from Adelstein in March 2016, requesting joint custody of their daughter.

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Filmography

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Film

Direct-to-DVD, AKA Frenemy

Short

Post-production

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Television

1998–1999	Cupid	Mike	10 episodes
1999	Turks	Officer Cliff Fowler	Television series
	ER	Hank Loman	Episode: "How the Finch Stole Christmas"
2002	R.U.S./H.	Tom Epstein	Television movie
	ER		Episode: "Bygones"
	Breaking News	Julian Kerbis	Television series
2002–2003	Hack	Sergeant Aldo Rossi	5 episodes (1x13, 1x14, 1x20, 2x04, 2x10)
2003		Steven Kellerman	Episode: "Mercy"
	Partners and Crime		Television movie
	The Lyon's Den	Snyder	1 episode (1x09)
	Without a Trace	Dave	Episode: "Copy Cat"
2004	Las Vegas	Alex Brooks	Episode: "My Beautiful Launderette"
2005	Medium	Craig	Episode: "In the Rough"
	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	Murro the Marauder (voice)	Episode: "Harvey's Civvy"
2005–2007; 2009; 2017	Prison Break	Paul Kellerman	Series regular 48 episodes
2006	Nobody's Watching	Jeff Tucker	Television series
	Scrubs	Dr. Stone	Episode: "My Fallen Idol"
2007	Grey's Anatomy	Cooper Freedman	2 episodes (3x22, 3x23)
2007–2013	Private Practice		Series regular 111 episodes
2010	Glenn Martin, DDS	Earl (voice)	Episode: "Courtney's Pony"
2013–2017	Scandal	Leo Bergen	Recurring role 18 episodes
2014–2018	Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce	Jake Novak	Series regular, also writer and producer 29 episodes
2015		Dr. Neil Alexander	Episode: "Decaying Morality"
2016	Chance	Raymond Blackstone	Recurring role 9 episodes
2017–2018	Imposters	Shelly Cohen	4 episodes; also creator, writer, and executive producer
2017–2018	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Seamus Murphy	Recurring role, Season 5
	Get Shorty	Wes Krupke	4 episodes
2018	I Feel Bad	David Sweetzer	Main role
2019	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Oscar Lehman	Episode: "It's the Sixties, Man!"
2019–2020	Chicago P.D.	Jason Crawford	Recurring role (Season 7)
2021	True Story	Todd	Recurring role 7 episodes
2023	Cruel Summer	Steve Chambers	Main role (Season 2)
2024		David Conn	Episode: "Hang Men"
	Agatha All Along	Jeff Kaplan	2 episodes

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