The actor’s other greatest hits in the world of comedy include 1988’s Blaxploitation parody I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Boomerang with Eddie Murphy, the Craig Robinson-led Peeples from 2013, and Netflix’s Coffee and Kareem, which just covers some of his best-known big screen credits.
However, this is not the former In Living Color cast member’s first try at drama, having played an abusive stepfather in the classic horror-anthology movie Tales from the Hood, a cop dealing with some wild phenomena in 1995’s Jumanji, a hospital record-keeper in Netflx’s A Series of Unfortunate Events adaptation, and recurring roles on creator Ava DuVernay’s OWN original Queen Sugar and Spectrum’s Neo-Western series, Joe Pickett, most recently. Steve Carell is not the only The Patient cast member with a background in comedy as David Alan Grier also stars as Alan’s own former mentor and therapist, Charlie. (Image credit: FX) David Alan Grier (Charlie Addison) He has since appeared in 2015’s Entourage as a casting agent and in the funny holiday comedy Office Christmas Party as a douchebag tech engineer, which are, just about, his most prominent film credits to date. Leeds landed his first credited feature film role at 14 with 1995’s Major Payne (starring Damon Wayans in the title role) after making his uncredited film debut opposite Michael J.
The actor’s more notable TV credits include his recurring roles on the likes of Bones and Barry, and starring roles on ABC’s short-lived sitcom Cristela and NBC’s also prematurely cancelled, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, and its holiday special from 2021. (Image credit: FX) Andrew Leeds (Ezra Strauss)Īs Alan’s estranged son, Ezra, we have Andrew Leeds, who previously worked with Steve Carell when he appeared on the pilot of The Morning Show and previously worked in an FX original when he landed guest appearances on Nip/Tuck and Dirt in the early 2000s, and American Horror Story and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia in later years. Emily Sopher, which is actually just one of several characters she has played on Dick Wolf’s crime procedural franchise. She most recently reprised her role on Law & Order: SVU as Dr. She landed a starring role on AMC’s Lodge 49 and would later appear on Season 3 of HBO’s Succession as Michelle-Anne Vanderhoven. Law in the early ‘90s and The Sopranos in 2000 - years before her recurring roles in the Gossip Girl cast as Headmistress Queller, on The Good Wife as Judge Leora Kuhn, and on The Blacklist as Dr. Other Academy favorites she has worked with include Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in 2009’s Julie & Julia, Holly Hunter in The Big Sick, and Sandra Bullock in Netflix’s The Unforgivable.Įmond’s small screen presence can be traced back to guest appearances on hit series like L.A. She later worked with Oscar nominee Ed Harris in the 2000 artist biopic Pollock, went on to share the screen with Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Frances McDormand in 2002’s City by the Sea, and, in 2005, starred alongside other Oscar darlings Jennifer Connelly (in Dark Water) and Charlize Theron (in North Country). Playing Sam’s devoted (and morally conflicted) mother, Candace, on The Patient is three-time Tony nominee Linda Emond, who made her screen acting debut in the 1989 fantasy drama, God’s Will. On March 3, 2010, “Nip/Tuck’s” one hundredth episode, last in the series, became the most-watched scripted program in the history of the FX network.(Image credit: FX) Linda Emond (Candace Fortner) Never shy about taking-on controversial subjects, “Nip/Tuck” won critical acclaim, Golden Globe and Emmy awards for its treatment of domestic violence, promiscuity, recreational drug use, and the risk of addiction to cosmetic surgery. Troy, “the naughty one,” loves money and sex, and sometimes commits serious scalpel screw-ups. McNamara, “the nice one,” struggles to keep his family together as they weather trials and tribulations that come as the complications of success. “Nip/Tuck” centers on Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, successful plastic surgeons, originally practicing their science and art in Miami, but conveniently relocated to Los Angeles at the end of “Nip/Tuck’s” fourth season. Call it one of television’s most credible attempts at realistic fiction: Ryan Murphy, “Nip/Tuck’s” producer, insists the medical conditions and procedures on which the episodes center “are 100% based on fact.” Ironically, though, “Nip/Tuck’s” representation of the surgeon’s private lives may impress ordinary viewers as the program’s most faithful representation of real life people and events.