Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian. Descended from Armenian American immigrants, he grew up in Watertown and Woburn, Massachusetts, and attended University of Chicago and Oberlin College. His numerous plays include subUrbia (1994) and the Pulitzer-nominated Talk Radio (1987), both of which were adapted to film by Richard Linklater and Oliver Stone, respectively. He also starred as Arno in the Safdie brothers' critically acclaimed film Uncut Gems (2019).

Eric Bogosian
Bogosian at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	(1953-04-24) April 24, 1953 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, historian
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	Jo Anne Bonney ( m. 1980)
Children	2

Bogosian has appeared in a variety of plays, films, and television series throughout his career. His television roles include Captain Danny Ross in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006–10), Lawrence Boyd on Billions (2017–2018), and Gil Eavis on Succession (since 2018). He has also been involved in New York City ballet production, and has written several novels as well as the historical nonfiction Operation Nemesis (2015).

Personal life

Bogosian was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina (née Jamgochian), a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant.[1][2] He spent his early childhood in Watertown, Massachusetts, home to a large Armenian-American community which included his grandparents, survivors of the Armenian Genocide. His family moved to nearby Woburn in 1960. He became interested in theater while attending Woburn Memorial High School, and would later base his play subUrbia on his youth in Woburn's Four Corners neighborhood.[3]

He attended the University of Chicago before graduating from Oberlin College. In 1980, he married Jo Anne Bonney, with whom he has two sons, Harry and Travis Bogosian.

Career

Bogosian is an author and actor known for his plays Talk Radio[4] and subUrbia as well as numerous one-man shows. In recent years he has starred on Broadway in Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, published three novels, and was featured on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Danny Ross.[4]

Stage

Between 1980 and 2000, six major solos written and performed by Eric Bogosian were produced Off-Broadway, garnering him three Obie Awards as well as the Drama Desk award. His first two solos, Men Inside and funHouse were presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival. His third, Drinking in America, was produced by American Place Theater. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee were all produced commercially Off-Broadway by Frederick Zollo.

Eric is also the author of six produced plays, including 1987's Talk Radio. Talk Radio was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, but lost to Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy.[5] In 2007, a Broadway revival of Talk Radio directed by Robert Falls starred Liev Schreiber. subUrbia was directed by Robert Falls and produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 1994. Other titles include Griller (Goodman Theater); Humpty Dumpty (The McCarter); Red Angel (Williamstown Theater Festival) and 1+1 (New York Stage and Film). Bogosian's one-person drama, Notes from Underground has had several productions, most recently starring Jonathan Ames at Performance Space 122.

In addition to his many appearances in his solo work and starring in his play, Talk Radio, Bogosian has also starred in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman (LAByrinth) and Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still directed by Daniel Sullivan (Manhattan Theater Club/Broadway).

Film

Bogosian's play Talk Radio was adapted to film in 1988 by Oliver Stone, garnering Bogosian the prestigious Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear. The film version of subUrbia (1996) was directed by Richard Linklater. His play Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll was adapted to film in 1991.[4] He has starred in several other films including Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Wonderland. In addition, he has been featured in films by such directors as Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Taylor Hackford, Atom Egoyan and Agnieszka Holland.

Television

In television, Bogosian is best known for his starring role as Captain Danny Ross in the series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In addition, he has appeared as a guest star on dramas and in 1994 created with Steven Spielberg the series High Incident for ABC television. He portrayed Barney Greenwald, defense attorney, in the TV film The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. He also appeared in the episode "His Story" on Scrubs as Dr. Cox's therapist and was recurring character Lawrence Boyd in Billions' second season. In 1993, Bogosian played the role of Stan Paxton, Larry's ex standup partner in the series 'The Larry Sanders Show'. He has also appeared in HBO's show Succession as Senator Gil Eavis.

Books

Bogosian is the author of three novels published by Simon & Schuster: Mall, Wasted Beauty, and Perforated Heart. All of his dramatic work is in print, published by Theater Communication Group. In 2015, he published Operation Nemesis: The Secret Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide, a history of Operation Nemesis which involved a group of Armenian assassins who set out to avenge the deaths of the one and a half million victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Dance

Bogosian founded the dance series at The Kitchen. During his charter tenure there, he produced the first concerts in New York City by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Karole Armitage and Molissa Fenley as well as dozens of other choreographers. In 2006, Bogosian acted as producer on the New York City Ballet's documentary, Bringing Back Balanchine.

Collaborations

In addition to working with Jo Bonney and Tad Savinar, other notable collaborations include Michael Zwack (“I Saw the Seven Angels”); Joe Hannan (“The Ricky Paul Show”); Glenn Branca (“The New World”); Robert Longo (“American Vanity”); Ann Magnuson (sketches at Folk City) and Elliot Sharp (“This Is Now!”). For the past six years Bogosian has been filming the 100monologues.com series with Travis Bogosian and Good Baby Films.

Awards

Bogosian has won the Obie Award three times as well as the Drama Desk Award. He received the prestigious "Silver Bear" at the 1989 Berlin Film Festival for his work on Talk Radio. He is a 2004 Guggenheim fellow[6] and the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Born in Flames	CBS Technician	Film Debut
1984	Special Effects	Christopher Neville
1985	The Stuff	Supermarket Clerk	Uncredited
1988	Talk Radio	Barry Champlain
1991	Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll	Himself
1993	The Thief and the Cobbler	Phido	Voice
1994	Witch Hunt	Senator Larson Crockett
1995	Dolores Claiborne	Peter
1995	Under Siege 2: Dark Territory	Travis Dane
1996	Beavis and Butt-Head Do America	Old Faithful Ranger / White House Press Secretary / Strategic Air Command Lieutenant	Voice
1997	Office Killer	Peter Douglas	Uncredited
1997	Deconstructing Harry	Burt
1998	Safe Men	Edward Templeton, Sr.	Voice
1998	A Bright Shining Lie	Doug Elders
2000	Gossip	Professor Goodwin
2000	In the Weeds	Simon
2002	Igby Goes Down	Mr. Nice Guy
2002	Ararat	Rouben
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Alan Caulfield
2003	Wonderland	Eddie Nash
2004	King of the Corner	Rabbi Evelyn Fink
2004	Blade: Trinity	Bentley Tittle
2005	Heights	Henry
2008	Cadillac Records	Alan Freed
2010	Don't Go in the Woods	Producer
2014	Listen Up Philip	Narrator	Voice
2017	Rebel in the Rye	Harold Ross
2019	Uncut Gems	Arno

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Miami Vice	Zeke	"Milk Run"
1985	Tales from the Darkside	Junkie	"The Tear Collector"
1985	The Twilight Zone	Jackie Thompson	"Healer"
1986	Reading Rainbow	Conan the Librarian	"Alistair in Outer Space", voice
1986	Crime Story	Dee	2 episodes
1992–93	Law & Order	Gary Lowenthal	2 episodes
1993	The Larry Sanders Show	Stan Paxton	"Larry's Partner"
2000	Welcome to New York	Robby	"The Crier"
2001	Third Watch	Lieutenant Lewis	"The Self-Importance of Being Carlos"
2003	Scrubs	Dr. Gross	"His Story"
2006–10	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Captain Danny Ross	61 Episodes
2006	Love Monkey	Phil Leshing	5 episodes
2014	The Good Wife	Nelson Dubeck	3 episodes
2015	Elementary	Collin Eisely	"A Stitch in Time"
2016–17	The Get Down	Roy Asheton	7 episodes
2017–18	Billions	Lawrence Boyd	10 episodes
2018–	Succession	Gil Eavis	5 episodes

Writing credits

• Men in Dark Times
• Scenes from the New World
• Sheer Heaven (1980)
• Men Inside (1981)
• The New World (1981)
• FunHouse (1983)
• Drinking in America (1986) (Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show)
• Talk Radio (1987) (also film version 1988)
• Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1990)
• Notes from the Underground (1993)
• Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead (1994)
• subUrbia (1994) (also film version 1996)
• Griller (1998)
• Mall (2000)
• Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2000)
• Humpty Dumpty (2004)
• Non-profit Benefit
• Red Angel
• Wasted Beauty (2005)
• 1+1 (2008)
• Perforated Heart (novel) (2009)
• Operation Nemesis (2015)

References

1. "Eric Bogosian Biography (1953-)". www.filmreference.com.
2. CurrentObituary.com. "Henry Bogosian - Obituary - Watertown, MA - Aram Bedrosian Funeral Home - CurrentObituary.com".
3. "In 'Operation Nemesis,' Eric Bogosian revisits his roots - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
4. "Eric Bogosian". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
5. "Finalist: Talk Radio, by Eric Bogosian". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
6. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Eric Bogosian". Retrieved December 27, 2019.

External links

• Eric Bogosian on IMDb 
• Eric Bogosian at AllMovie
• Eric Bogosian at the Internet Broadway Database
• Eric Bogosian at the Internet Off-Broadway Database