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Robert Alda: Tony Award
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Alda's career spans motion pictures, television and the Broadway stage. His motion picture credits include Woody Allen's "Everyone Says I Love You", "Manhattan Murder Mystery", "Crimes and Misdemeanors", and "Same Time Next Year", "California Suite", "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" (which he wrote), "The Four Seasons", "Sweet Liberty", "A New Life" and "Betsy's Wedding" (which he wrote and directed), "Whispers in the Dark", "Flirting With Disaster", "Murder at 1600", "The Object of My Affection" and "Mad City". For his role in "Crimes and Misdemeanors" he won the D.W. Griffith Award, the New York Film Critics Award and was nominated for a British Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor. In 2001 he will appear in the films "Club Land" and "The Killing Yard" on the Showtime network.
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Alda has received many Emmy nominations, most recently for his role as Dr. Gabriel Lawrence in ER (2000) and as Willie Walters in the Showtime TV movie Club Land (2001). He received the WGA's Valentine Davies Award on March 5, 2000. The award is for writers "who have contributed to the entertainment industry as well as the community at large, and who have brought dignity and honor to the profession of writing everywhere." Alda ... received the Regal Cinemas' Career Achievement Award at the Sarasota Film Festival on January 13, 2001. He currently hosts Scientific American Frontiers on PBS. In 2005, he received his first Oscar nomination.
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On the Broadway stage, Alda recently appeared as the physicist Richard Feynman in “QED.” He starred in the first American production of the international hit play "ART." He was nominated for the Tony Award for his performances in Neil Simon’s "Jake’s Women" and the musical "The Apple Tree." In the coming year, he will appear on Broadway in a revival of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
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Throughout his career, Alda has received 31 Emmy Award nominations and two Tony Award nominations, and has won seven People's Choice Awards, six Golden Globe awards, and three Directors Guild of America awards. However, it was not until 2004, after a long distinguished acting career, that Alda received his first Academy Award nomination for his role in The Aviator
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Alda�s wife, Arlene, is the author of 11 children�s books. As an award-winning professional photographer, her work has appeared in a number of magazines and books. They have three daughters and seven grandchildren. Alda�s birth date is January 28.
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