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Peter Gallagher, who grew up in Armonk, New York, developed an interest for acting as a teenager starring in school plays and musicals. After graduating from Tufts University, he made his professional stage debut in the 1977 revival of Hair, followed by a starring role in the Broadway production
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Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19 1955) is an Golden Globe award winning American actor. He is best known for playing Sandy Cohen on the television series The O.C. Biography Early life Gallagher was born in New York City and raised in Armonk, New York. He is a graduate of Tufts University and a former member of the Tufts Beelzebubs. Career Gallagher specializes in character parts which are, to varying degrees, either good or bad guys. He played a potential career threat to Tim Robbins studio executive in The Player as a possible replacement; the comatose "fiancé" of Sandra Bullock in While
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Following the Texas Revolution, Gallagher retained his land titles and began working for the Texas government, leaving his ranch in 1841 to join the ill-fated Santa Fe Expedition. The expedition, organized by President Lamar, sought to blaze a trade route to Santa Fe, and to incite an insurrection that would end Mexican control over New Mexico so that the Texas Republic could expand westward. Gallagher was hired to record details of the expedition and provide a diary of the eventful journey. The disastrous expedition resulted in the arrest and incarceration of the Texans. Their Mexican captors forced Gallagher and the other prisoners to march to Mexico City. Gallagher recorded that he “suffered all the horrors and hardships of the march.” He remained imprisoned until June 13, 1842.
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On television, Gallagher starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame Special Cupid & Cate. Gallagher's other credits include the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial--which was Gallagher's first experience working with Robert Altman--Brave New World, An Inconvenient Woman and the series The Secret Lives of Men. For PBS, Gallagher starred in Guys and Dolls: Off the Record, which documented the recording of the cast album; Clifford Odets' production of The Big Knife; Private Contentment, by Reynolds Price; and Peter Sellers' silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez. One of Gallagher's other recent credits is the cable film Double Bill, directed by Rachel Talalay.
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In November 2001, Gallagher starred in the Showtime mini-series, Feast of All Saints, based on the novel by Anne Rice. It is set in nineteenth-century New Orleans and depicts the story of the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression. Gallagher most recently co-starred with Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder in Columbia Pictures/New Line Cinema's Mr. Deeds for director Steve Brill. He stars in Alliance Atlantis' Protection, opposite Stephen Baldwin, which tells the story of a Mafia hit man from New York who is forced into the witness protection program after giving up his boss to the Feds. He ... stars in Perfume for Lions Gate along with Jeff Goldblum, Omar Epps, Paul Sorvino, and Rita Wilson. Perfume, written and directed by award winning director Michael Rymer is an improvisational film about people trapped in the machinery that make up the fashion business which was in competition at Sundance Film Festival.
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Gallagher, born in NYC and raised in Armonk, New York, developed an interest in acting as a teenager starring in school plays and musicals. After graduating from Tufts University, he made his professional stage debut in the 1977 revival of “Hair,” followed by a starring role in the Broadway production of “Grease,” and in “The Corn Is Green”. He wowed audiences with his performance as the charismatic Sky Masterson in Jerry Zak’s Tony winning revival of the Broadway musical “Guys and Dolls.” In 1986 Gallagher earned a Tony Award nomination for his highly acclaimed performance opposite Jack Lemmon in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” He received further acclaim with a Theatre World Award for the Harold Prince production of “A Dolls Life” and a Clarence Derwent Award for Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” directed by Mike Nichols. He returned to Broadway in November 2001 in an acclaimed Royal National Theatre production of "Noises Off". In the fall of 2002 he starred in “The Exonerated”, winner of the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play and the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award and Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience directed by Bob Balaban.
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