Fred Melamed
Fred Melamed was born in New York City, New York, United States on May 13th, 1956 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 67, Fred Melamed biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956) is an American actor, comedian, and writer.
He is best known for portraying Sy Ableman in A Serious Man, Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite, and Sam Soto in In a World... and for appearing in seven films directed by Woody Allen.
Early life
Melamed was born to a secular Jewish family in New York City, New York. His biological mother is actress/director Nancy Zala and his biological father, British psychoanalyst Stan Silverstone, was a relative of the prominent Adler acting family, including Luther and Stella Adler. He is the adopted son of Louis, a New York television producer, and Syma (Krichefsky) Melamed, a sometime actress and housewife. He attended the Hunter College Elementary School, a primary school for gifted children, and Riverdale Country School.
His father worked with TV pioneer Nat Hiken on such shows as Car 54, Where Are You? and The Phil Silvers Show. When he was sixteen, his family had financial difficulties, and was forced to move to Hollywood, Florida. Melamed has said that he was raised in a non-believer Jewish family who never went to synagogue, except to attend a cousin's bar mitzvah. When he was asked if he wanted to attend Hebrew school, he said no, and thus had no religious training. However, he credits his non-religious upbringing as helping him to develop a belief in God later in life, as he had no "forced dogma to overcome."
Personal life
After living in the Hamptons hamlet of Montauk, N.Y. for many years, Melamed moved with his wife, Leslee, and twin sons to Los Angeles in 2013. Both of the Melamed children were diagnosed with autism and he and his wife have been involved in advocacy for persons living with autism spectrum disorder and their families. Melamed and his wife divorced in 2021.
Career
He began his dramatic studies at Hampshire College, where he was heavily influenced by Tina Packer, John Guare, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and members of The Living Theatre. Melamed has since attended Yale School of Drama. He was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow at Yale. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, which is given to the most promising young actors in the United States. He was an instructor at Stagedoor Manor, Yale's well-known performing arts camp. After his education, he appeared on stage with several resident theatre companies, including The Guthrie Theatre, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Yale Repertory Theater, and The Tony Award-winning Amadeus. Melamed's journey began with "a period of personal darkness," during which he effectively stopped appearing on stage. At the same time, with an insider's knowledge of the market and support from his agent, he became a voice actor and started doing film work.
Melamed's voice became a familiar presence on television, appearing as the sound of the Olympics, Mercedes Benz, CBS Sports, USA Network, the Super Bowl, and numerous commercials and television shows. He became well-known as a voice actor in the film industry, appearing in the Grand Theft Auto series and dubbing entire actors' appearances in films.
Melamed's debut film in Marshall Brickman's 1983 romantic comedy Lovesick, starring Dudley Moore and Elizabeth McGovern. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Woody Allen's comedy-drama, was Melamed's second film. In addition, Melamed has appeared in other Allen films for a long time. He has appeared in more Allen films than any other actor besides Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow (and Allen himself). He appeared in Radio Days (1987), Another Woman (1988), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Shadows and Fog (1991), Husbands and Wives (1992), and Hollywood Ending (2000). Melamed appeared in Roland Joffé's spiritual epic The Mission (1986), Elaine May's comedy Ishtar (1987). He appeared in Suspect (1987), starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, and Liam Neeson, as well as the romantic comedy The Pickup Artist starring Robert Downey Jr. and Molly Ringwald. He appeared in The Good Mother (1988), opposite Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson, for the second year.
Sy Ableman, the "sensitive" villain in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2009 film A Serious Man, who was nominated for Best Picture at the 2010 Academy Awards, became well-known. "Sy Ableman is as good a contemporary movie villain as The Joker, Hans Landa, or Anton Chigurh," the film Confessional said about the actor. The character Fred Melamed contrives is the year's most witty force of destruction." The film's Ensemble and Casting Directors received Film Independent's Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for his role in Melamed, as well as the Coen Brothers and the Coen Brothers, and the film's Ensemble and Casting Directors. Melamed's work was listed in the Best Performances of the Decade by a New York magazine, and Empire named Sy Ableman "One of the Best Coen Bros." "Characters of All Time" is a film that was based on a comic stripe. Several leading analysts in the United States, including A. O. Scott of The New York Times, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, and Roger Ebert, all agreed that his work deserving of an Academy Award nomination.
Melamed appeared on television in the Netflix comedy Lady Dynamite, FX's Emmy Award-nominated Fargo, Hulu's Golden Globe Award-nominated Casual, the Fox comedy New Girl, and Verizon Go90's sports news "We're Talking." He is a current or former recurring guest star on USA Network's Benched, HBO's Girls, Children's Hospital, Blunt Talk, FX's Married, and Trial & Error. In previous seasons, he starred Larry David's smug psychiatrist, Dr. Arthur Thurgood, on The Good Wife, and appeared on CBS situation comedy The Crazy Ones with Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. In the hit Fargo episode "The Law of Non-Contradiction" in 2017, he appeared as a special guest star. D.C. Parlov was also present in two episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine as fantasy author D.C. Parlov.
Melamed appeared in the Sundance film Lemon (2017), a film with Brett Gelman and Janicza Bravo, Brawl, on Cell Block 99 opposite Vince Vaughn of Sean McGinly's Silver Lake, which he starred in with Martin Starr and Dragged Across Concrete. Melamed had previously appeared in In a World..., the writer of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival, opposite Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins in Bone Tomahawk, and re-teamed with Coen brothers and co-stars George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes in Hail, Caesar. (2016). In Fred Won't Move Out, a film about a stubborn patriarch and his family, he appeared in Get on Up (2014), a bio-pic about James Brown's life, and opposite Elliott Gould as the author/director. Other 2010s appearances included The Dictator (2012), with Sacha Baron Cohen and Sir Ben Kingsley, where Melamed appeared in a cameo as the head of the regime's Nuclear Weapons Program, and Some Kind of Beautiful, in which Melamed played a villain opposite Pierce Brosnan and Jessica Alba.
Melamed originated the roles of The Father in Ethan Coen's Talking Cure and Thomas Moran's George Is Dead, two of the one-act plays that included Relatively Speaking on Broadway in 2011. Melamed reprised Vanya in Uncle Vanya's Guild Hall production, "demonstrating an excellent (...) multi-layered performance (...) Mr. Melamed comfortably inhabits the humourful lover, but also brings out Vanya's empathetic loneliness."
He has written screenplays, including Girl of the Perfume River, A Jones for Gash, The Asshat Project, and The Preservationist, a fictional drama based on Edward Forbes Smiley III, a well-known cartographer and dealer who has confessed to being the most prolific and prolific map thief of all time.
Melamed appeared in the crime drama Lying and Stealing, alongside Theo James and Emily Ratajkowski in 2019. "Lying and Stealing" was a modest critical success, with Dennis Harvey of Variety's comment, "One's intelligence may have been muzzled by flashier surface assets."
Melamed is the head of Vision's Arthur Hart, a Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2020, he appeared in Emma Seligman's debut Shiva Baby. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was lauded for its critical acclaim. Ed Helms and Patti Harrison appeared in Nikole Beckwith's pregnancy comedy Together Together, a year ago. Critical praise for the film has also been given. Melamed was named by a panel of leading writers and film experts in Vulture and New York Magazine as one of "The 32 Greatest Character Actors Working Today" in 2021.