Who is Oliver Platt?

Oliver Platt is an American-Canadian renowned film, stage, and television actor. He rose to fame after appearing on the showtime comedy-drama series, The Big C where he portrayed the role of Paul Jamison.

He is also best known for appearing in films like Flatliners, The Three Musketeers, X-Men: First Class, and Executive Decisions.

Oliver Platt: Age, Family, Siblings, Ethnicity

Oliver was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on January 12, 1960. At present, he is 61 years old. His full name is Oliver James Platt. He holds dual nationality of American and Canadian. Likely, he belongs to mixed ethnicity of English, Irish, Dutch, and French.

The name of his parents is Nicholas Platt (father) and Sheila Maynard (mother). His father is a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines. Similarly, his mother is a clinical social worker by profession.

The actor has one elder brother named Adam Platt and a younger brother named Nicholas Platt Jr. Adam is a writer and restaurant critic by profession. He is currently the senior restaurant critic for New York Magazine since July 2000.

Oliver Platt comes from a very prestigious family, his paternal great-great-grandfather Joseph Hodes Choate was the most successful lawyer in New York City. Similarly, his great-grandfather Charles A. Platt was an artist and architect.

Moreover, his maternal great-great-grandfather Robert Shaw Oliver is a renowned soldier and businessman and his great-grandfather Cynthia Burke Roche was a socialite and art collector from Newport, Rhode Island.

Education & Early Life

Oliver Platt spent his childhood in different countries like Asia, the Middle East, and Washington, D.C. because of his father’s profession as an ambassador. Platt enrolled in twelve different schools one of them being American School in Japan.

Later, he graduated from a progressive boarding school named Colorado Rocky Moutain School in Carbondale, Colorado. Afterward, he attended Tufts University majoring in drama where he met and became close friends with Hank Azaria.

After graduation, Oliver Platt worked for three years as a stage actor in theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. Platt was fascinated with acting at the age of nine when he visited the Kennedy Center in Washington where he watched a performance that helped inspire his acting career.