In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mandy won a Tony Award® for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and was nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. In 1991 he returned to Broadway in the Tony Award®-winning musical The Secret Garden and in 1997 played a sold–out engagement of his one-man concert, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. Mandy’s other solo concerts, Dress Casual, Celebrating Sondheim andMamaloshen, have been presented both on Broadway and Off. In 2009 he celebrated the 20th anniversary of performing his solo concerts withj a two-week run of all of his concerts in rep at New York’s Public Theater, the very space he began his concert career. Mandy continued the celebration with a critically acclaimed two-week run of Mandy Patinkin in Concert in London’s West Enhd at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Mandy’s other stage credits include the world premiere of Compulsion, a new play by Rinne Groff and directed by Oskar Eustis, appearing in productions of the play at Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep and finally at The Public Theater in early 2011; Paradise Found (London’s Menier Chocolate Factory), The Tempest (Classic Stage Company), Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theater Festival), The Wild Party (2000 Tony® nomination), Falsettos, The Winter’s Tale, The Knife, Leave It to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the ‘Wells’, The Shadow Box, The Split, Savages, and Henry IV, Part I.

Feature film credits include: Everybody’s Hero, The Choking Man, Piñero, Elmo In Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl (1984 Golden Globe nomination), The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: Indian Warrior. Mandy won a 1995 Emmy® Award (as well as a Golden Globe nomination) for his performance in the CBS series “Chicago Hope,” and recently starred in the CBS series “Criminal Minds” as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and in the Showtime Original Series “Dead Like Me” as the reaper Rube Sofer. Mandy returns to TV in the Emmy® and Golden Globe Award-winning Showtime Original Series “Homeland” as CIA Division Chief Saul Berenson. His other television appearances include the role of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime film “Strange Justice,” playing Quasimodo opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film presentation of “The Hunchback,” a film version of Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” for BBC/WGBH-Boston, and episodes of “Three Rivers,” “The Larry Sanders Show” (1996 Emmy® nomination), “Law and Order,” “Boston Public,” “Touched By An Angel” and “The Simpsons.”

In 1989, Mandy began his concert career at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater. This coincided with the release of his first solo album entitledMandy Patinkin. Since then he has toured extensively, appearing to sold–out audiences across the United States, Canada, London and Australia, performing songs from writers including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others. In 1990 he released his second solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin In Concert: Dress Casualon CBS Records. His 1994 recording, Experiment, on the Nonesuch label, features songs from nine decades of popular music from Irving Berlin to Alan Menken. Also recorded on the Nonesuch label are Oscar & Steve, Leonard Bernstein’s New York, Kidults and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim. In 1998 he debuted his most personal project,Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The recording of Mamaloshen won theDeutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s equivalent of the Grammy® Award). In October 2007, Mandy debuted a new concert with dear friend Patti LuPone and they continue touring their show, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, throughout the US, Australia, New Zealand, and most recently during a nine-week Broadway run at the Barrymore Theatre. Mandy continues to collaborate with An Evenings with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn and most recently The Last Two People onEarth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville starring Mandy and the performance artist Taylor Mac, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman. Mandy resides in New York City with his wife, actress and writer Kathryn Grody, and their two sons.