Marcus Giamatti

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Marcus is best known for the role of "Peter Gray", on the long-running CBS drama "Judging Amy"(1999).

Marcus is also an accomplished, professinal bass guitarist, playing in several bands in Los Angeles, including the alternative country artist Olivea Watson (2007 Gibson Artist of the Year). Marcus is also a session musician, and a member of Musician`s Local 47.

His extensive theater credits include stints on Broadway in Horton Foote`s "Young Man From Atlanta", and "Measure For Measure" at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway, Marcus has appeared in numerous shows at MTC, The Lambs and WPA. Regionally, he has worked at The Guthrie, Seattle Rep., Yale Rep., Long Wharf, over 20 productions at The Williamstown Theater Festival, Hartford Stage, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, The Goodman, and The Eugene O`Neill Playrights Conference.
 

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  • Marcus was a member of the Bowdoin College Varsity Swimming Team. He specialized in the 50 and 100 yard Freestyle.
  • Marcus was a bass student of Jim Stinnett, and The Stinnett School Of Music, an affiliate of The Berklee College of Music, in Boston.
  • He and his wife Bree have one child, a daughter: Ophelia Rosalee Giamatti.
  • Brother-in-law of Elizabeth Giamatti.
  • The original bass player for the Southern California jam band the Rebel Soul Band.
  • Has performed many of Shakespeare`s greates roles from Henry in "Henry V", to the tittle role in "Macbeth", to Bottom in a Midsummer Night`s Dream, and Silvius in "As You Like It".
  • Played the role of Marlowe, in Goldsmith`s "She Stoops To Conquer" at The Seattle Rep, The Guthrie and Long Wharf.
  • Marcus received his Actor`s Equity card at The Williamstown Theater Festival in 1987.
  • His grandmother, Kathryn Brown Smith, won the silver medal at the Nationals, in 1927 and 1929, in the 10 meter platform high dive event.
  • His grandfather, Abram E. Smith, was the head football coach at Plainfield High School, in New Jersey, from 1943 to 1968. One of his players was Olympic Decathalon Champion Milton Campbell.
  • Commondore Brown also assisted Houdini, placing chains and locks on his truck, and then helping to lower him into one of Manhatten`s rivers. He was there as well to rescue Houdini, if he needed it.
  • Marcus` great grandfather, Commondore Alfred Brown, was the first and only man to swim the Panama Canal. This was accomplished with permission from President Teddy Roosevelt in 1913, before the canal was opened to commercial traffic.
  • Threw out the ceremonial first pitch, before the start of Game 1 of the 1989 World Series, in Oakland, CA.
  • His bass recording work includes sessions with such distinguished musicians as Doug Pettibone, Lucinda Williams, Don Heffington, Bob Dylan, Skip Edwards, Dwight Yoakum, James Brown and drummer Otis Hayes.
  • At Bowdoin College Marcus received The Alice Merrill Mitchell Award for Acting, as a graduating senior.
  • Received the Carol Dye Award for Excellence in Acting upon his graduation from The Yale School Of Drama.
  • A long time student of the Japanease martial art Ninpo (Ninjutsu).
  • He was the Captain of his high school varsity swimming team, as a senior, at Hopkins, in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • A huge Boston Red Sox fan, and Major League Bassball fan.
  • He has twice played in The Legends and Celebrity Softball Game as part of The Major League All Star Game, in both Pittsburgh (2006) and San Francisco (2007).
  • Plays the guitar.
  • Is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
  • Son of Bart Giamatti, late president of Yale University, and the major league baseball commissioner who banished Pete Rose from baseball.
  • He is the older brother of Paul Giamatti.
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